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[quote=Anonymous]I would just find a new weekly housecleaner.

TBH, it sounds like this one fell into a sweet gig and now that there's more work, she's no longer interested. Or is fishing for more $$.

My mom travels a lot with friends. My dad hates traveling so he stays home. If she's gone for a week or so, I go over to check in on him because he can be somewhat helpless/clueless. He'll let dishes pile up until he has no utensils left... and then go through all of the plasticware he can find before doing a dish. He'll leave empty cups around and his discarded clothes on the floor. He's just used to my mom doing those things.

Last time she was gone and I went over, he'd been eating local takeout for 3 days in a row because he had no clean dishes and "they always give me a fork with my order!" I asked why he didn't just do dishes... there was no dish soap. I asked why he didn't go buy more... he didn't know what "flavor" she liked to use and didn't want to buy the wrong one so it was easier to order food with a utensil.

I asked why he didn't buy some plasticware at the store and he said that thought never occurred to him.

I sometimes think a big part of the reason I'm a lesbian is because I could never imagine myself being with a guy like my dad who was so clueless/helpless, ha. I mean, I'm joking, but yeah. [/quote]

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