‘So, why are you cleaning then?’ ‘Because I don’t want the place to look like a pigsty when she gets here,’ she replied, scrubbing some invisible dirt off an old school photograph of me. ‘I don’t want her thinking I can’t keep my own house tidy.’ ‘The very reason you employ her suggests that you can’t keep your own house tidy. What’s she going to do when she gets here and finds that’s everything’s already clean?’
