I
have neighbours who are a newly-wed couple. The young wife is the
legal owner of the house. However, it was her mother who brought a
maid to clean that house successive afternoons before her wedding.
When the house was physically clean, the man's family came in. It
took quite a few people to chop down and burn five feet tall lalang
(prairie grass) in the
backyard.
This
couple either travels frequently or their work takes them out of town
often. When the wife works outstation, we see the man living alone.
When the husband leaves town, the wife presumably goes back to her
parents' house. Infrequently we see the husband hang out his clothes.
In about three months though, I noticed her clothes only twice.
It is
quite interesting that a house fully furnished with a fridge, stove,
hot water heater, TV, air-conditioners, kitchen cabinets and more
could not keep the young wife there. She kept spending time and
staying overnight in her parents' house. Could it be that she misses
the maid's service so much that she treats her own abode like a
hotel?
If
the legal owner of the house does not keep it clean, would her
husband bother to mop and sweep? How long will the mother of this
young lady bear the responsibility of ferrying a maid to and fro to
clean house for her daughter?
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