... the next time I visited the cat house, the cats kept out of my sight. I cleaned the living room and moved on. Glancing into the living room on my way out I noticed that a clutch of enormous turds had recently been laid on the carpet in the window bay.
Twice a week I go to a house with dogs and a little boy who calls me Harry because that is the name of his friend.
I spend an hour a week in a house where I have never seen the owner, he called me and asked if I did ironing, I said not really because I wasn't very good at it and I worried that I might do more harm than good, the man said 'What if I didn't care', then he dropped his keys off in my letter box and leaves me cash in his microwave every fortnight.
I have recently started cleaning a sexndrugsnrocknroll house. It is the sort of place where it is difficult to tell what colour the paintwork might originally have been but I'm guessing they had a lot of fun getting it this dirty. They don't want me to come very often and they're too stoned to care what I clean. I choose something that I can complete in a session. The first week I concentrated on a glazed door between the kitchen and living room. After two hours with a scourer and some Ajax I had uncovered a very bright and shiny thing indeed, I imagined them coming home and thinking that a celestial Tardis had been installed.
Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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welcome back to blogville, sweet pea! i see why y'all have been away! large turds, indeed! LOL anyway, drop by there's an award for you at my place! ;) xoxoxoxo
ReplyDeleteWho laid the turds out? Were they fresh? Were they all dried up...?? Were they pretend ones? We need to know.
ReplyDeleteI love reclaiming shiny things from dust and grime.
Sx
Have you tried adding glitter to the turds, Miss Scarlet?
DeleteCash in a microwave? Sounds like the modern method of laundering dirty money!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! You have discovered a niche market: sloppy ironing!
ReplyDeleteBlimey. Is this what you now do for a living? No more insect filming? I've done cleaning myself... but has humanity really gotten this sloppy?
ReplyDeletep.s. yes, great to see you bloggin' again :-)
ReplyDeleteWhatever do they feed those cats....
ReplyDeleteDo you also do windows not very well?
ReplyDeleteA celestial Tardis!
ReplyDeleteI, too, clean houses, although I keep getting hired by wealthy people without a speck of dirt in their homes. I suspect they just want me to pick up those items that cost more than I make in a week, rub them a bit with a damp cloth, and set them down.
I need more stoner houses...
Pearl
Sav - thank you sweetie, I bet American cats are more gentille.
ReplyDeleteScarlet - I can reply in one word 'steaming!'
Dinah - More like 'cooking the books'
LX - Perhaps my niche is showing people that there is someone out there sloppier than them - I call that a service.
Thank you Gadj, nice to see you too, hasn't humanity always been sloppy?
ReplyDeleteHi Helen - far too much
Lynne - I can smear a window up faster than you can say 'streaky bacon'
Pearl - The wealthy clean homes kill me, but I love the idea that we are being paid just to touch their nice stuff.