My Madly MAIDly Woes!!!!

You might think it’s such a silly topic to write about, but it’s not. Ask all the ladies in the house, they will tell you how miserable life becomes when your maid (or bai as we call her here) doesn’t turn up on time or she misses a day. I am sure you all will concur with me about the importance of a bai. I already have a full fledged blog dedicated to a bai. :D

I had attended a “Hasya Kavi Samelan” when I was in IIT and the famous poet ‘Surinder Sharma’ said something like “a wife will compromise with anyone be it a sabziwala, or shopkeeper, or watchman, or cleaner and the most important of all the “bai” but she will never compromise with her husband”. As uncanny as it sounds, I guess it’s true.

We all are so set in our ways these days and are highly dependent on our bai’s schedule that we manage ours with her. Even if you pay her well, feed her well, and support her well….there will still be no end to your worries. All you think before going to bed is “will she come tomorrow?”, “will she come on time?”, and “will she finish her work before 9 “….. and it goes on and on…..And if you happen to be a cleanliness freak, then your life will surely be miserable. No matter how good or bad your bai is.

I have been in Pune for almost 2 yrs now and I might have changed 4-5 bai’s till now. Some work well, some have time issues, some don’t come every day……and the worst of all; they will ditch you when you need them the most. I have realized it whenever my parents or friends visit me, my bai goes berserk. She will just decide to either go sick or will have urgent family issues to attend to.

When you will want her to clean properly and even if you are actually working with her she will be in a hurry to rush things. Other times when you are in a hurry to rush to office she will try and clean every nook of your place. You can imagine how irritating it is…….and that too if you have an important meeting to attend to. Plus if you have an encounter with your bai early morning, all the frustration/ stress flows in your work routine. But isn’t it that we all have a bai to help us with a lot of things so that we can relax and have a bit stress free life…. … but is that so…….. the answer is a big fat NO.

Even if you try and understand her issues and are sympathetic, it will never work…… I guess we all have a lot of worries of our own. I’m most of the times managing 1 million things in my life and I surely don’t get paid to do everything even if I do everything perfect (may be some almost perfect). Life is funny….As a kid our parents always told us ‘Do good and you will have good’…………. These sayings don’t work in today’s world, especially when it comes to a bai.

I know some of you must be thinking I’m crazy as I am writing about it, but I’m having a tough time with my bai these days so I just wanted to vent it out.