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2yr-hk
19 yrs ago
The summer is here and our DH found an amusing trick. Only it is not amusing if the refrigerator conks off!
I went down to the gym and returned after a couple of hours. As I opened the maindoor, I heard the doors of the refrigerator being shut. The windows and the door of the kitchen were shut and the refrigerator was used like an air-conditioner! The melting ice and the water droplets on everything kept inside the fridge were a give away! But the DH is good and she confessed and promised not to do it again when I told her the consequences!Let's have some amusing anecdotes!
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ritad
19 yrs ago
hmmm i am going to change my style today...
oh,,you are relaly being too hard on the DH ...you should have allowed her to have a cool living environment....you s hould have provided her some fan......
please....
trust me 2yr-hk....you will get one of this message soon.
i totally find your story amusing..and almost funny.......but sorry for your bills..
and food..i guess...
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A Funny Story
I once had an Indonesian helper - I only hired her because the agent assured me she'd worked successfully in Singapore for 4 years.
On the first day this Indonesian girl came I asked her to pop down to the lobby of my building and bring up the post. We live on the 62 / F, so I pointed her to the lifts and gave her the mailbox key and left her to get on with it. Half an hour later, she still had not returned.
So my husband told me to go look for her. I went to the lift and there she was, still on the 62 / F. So I asked her, have you got the mail?
No, she said, the lift still hasn't come.
So I said, did you call it? (By pressing the button, right?)
Do you know, she'd stood there all that time without calling the lift, waiting for it to 'pass by' the 62 / F! And she reckoned she'd lived in Singapore for 4 years?! Yeah, right...
If the above isn't enough, allow me to add - it took her a whole month to learn that every time you want the lift, you have to press the button. Every time you get in the lift, you have to press another button (i.e. which floor you want). "Need to see it to believe it" kinda stuff, huh?
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tmk
19 yrs ago
Not quite a DH story, but it involves our driver...
Living in Manila last year, my wife and I were hosting a fairly large party at home. The caterers arrived and were setting up tables in the combined living room and dining room area. My wife thought perhaps we should also set up a few tables in the backyard, but was a little concerned with dark clouds. Our driver had an uncanny ability to predict the weather, so she asked him if it was going to rain. He looked carefully at the clouds, thought for a minute, and replied "Ma'am it's moving north."
My wife had the caterers set a few tables outside. Sure enough, ten minutes later the rain started! My wife turned to our driver and said in jest "Thought you said it wasn't going to rain".
He replied, "No Ma'am, I said it was moving north, it was south of us when I said that."
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Preparing for my son's birthday party, I'd asked my helper to get some balloons. She came back with a lot of different packets and had blown up one from each. She was quite disappointed - she told me, "I can't find those balloons that float".
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Here's a story in which the employer is the funny one:
One time I was interviewing and this helper came to me saying she wanted to leave her present boss in order to work for me. I asked her what was wrong with the people she was working for already. She said to me, in her best effort at an uncomplaining tone, that her employers were very strict about not wasting stuff. So much so that they only allowed her to use 3 standard size bottles of soy sauce per year! Can you imagine?! A Chinese family, who eat Chinese food every day, using 3 bottles of soy sauce per year. She said she couldn't take the stress and wanted to find another job. That has to be the best reason for leaving I've heard of so far.
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Loved Kanda1's post..... LOL !
My husband prefers his soup with no residue when served...no meats, no oil, no chinese almonds etc. That's everyday routine...... One day, my mother in law made some very expensive chinese soup for my husband and I to drink as a "treat".... the best stuff was to EAT all the ingredients.
Our mother in law brought the soup in a thermos..... that evening, our helper reheated the soup to serve to us. Guess what? Only all the SOUP was in our bowl.... when I asked her where are all the stuff in the soup ? She said, "Oh, I threw them all out."
At this moment, we didn't know to laugh or cry b/c it's not her fault for not knowing the "chinese herbal" stuff..... sigh. The next day, my mother in law asked us, "You liked the soup? Did you eat all the stuff?" My husband and I have to keep our faces straight, and said "Oh yes. It tasted great!!!"
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After having just employed a helper the weekend before we took our family to Macau - leaving the new helper - home alone. Got back after 3 days away and she had pulled out every plant in the large garden - every plant - it was a scorched earth policy. (she must have really bored!)
Incredulous I asked why did she do this - her reply "because there were many weeds".
After spending much $$$$ to replace the plants at a nursery she said "I think these are weeds maam"
Sigh...
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One day in October, we came home find our three goldfish floating in the top of the fish tank, gasping and close to death. Perplexed we investigated to determine the cause- a tropical fish tank water heater had been put in the tank. When we asked our helper how it came to be there, she looked at us and said “The fish- they are not cold?????” With the onset of autumn and the mercury plummeting to 23 degrees, our helper had decided that our goldfish must have been cold. In a rare display of initiative, she had decided to warm them up. Unfortunately, only one of the fish survived the incident!
My other favourite helper story is when we arrived home from holidays to find that our helper had decided to superglue various random photos found about the house in no particular order into the beautiful Shanghai Tang photo albums that we had received as a wedding present.
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MC
19 yrs ago
Mine has been with me for 7 years. She is a very good maid but didn't have a lot of education as at the age of 48, she is already a grandmother to a girl who is older than my daughter.
My daughter gets these "activity" type homework on a weekly basis. Usually there is a sheet of paper with some words to fill or something and then you are supposed to glue the paper onto a book. One weekend I was traveling so couldn't check her work. Called and asked my daughter if she finished and she said NO. I then talked to my helper and asked her why she didn't let the kid finish the homework. My helper answered: "but she did finish". I said:"how come my daughter just told me that she didn't." My helper answered:"But I glued the paper on the book already."
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I remember a party given by a friend years ago. She had hired 3 or 4 Filipinas to help serve and clean up. After dinner, I accompanied the hostess into the kitchen where she brought down a bottle of brandy, poured a serving into each of 2 dozen big brandy snifters and put them on a tray to take to her guests. We then left the kitchen for a moment. When we came back, the girls were drying the brandy snifters and putting them back in the cupboard -- having poured what they thought were the remains of the drinks down the sink.
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Bumpkin, I don't drink brandy, but I think the idea is to put a small amount in a very large glass and swirl it around and sniff the aroma. So,to be fair, I might have made the same mistake as the Filipina helpers.
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Dear Bumpkin,
Well, it was 10 years ago and she may have had two bottles, or maybe there were fewer glasses. Or perhaps it was an extra large catering sized bottle. Anyway, the idea was to put a normal serving of brandy in the large brandy glasses.
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Vacuuming my car and putting the rug over the accelerator because 'it looked better that way'. I preferred to believe that she was not a driver rather than that she was trying to kill us all (as she was a front seat passenger when the car bolted out of the garage).
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STUCK
18 yrs ago
Cleaning our car with a brillo pad.................there wasn't a spot untouched!!!!
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OK, this story was told to me 3rd hand, so I can't vouch for its accuracy...
A couple were interviewing for a helper, and at the end of one of the interviews, they asked what the helper's expected salary was.
$3500.
Or $5500 "if I have to service master"
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My helper was trying out a recipe that called for dry white wine. She went down to the super to get some. Hours later she returned looking worse for wear. "Ma'am... all the wine they have is wet, in bottles, there's no dried wine anywhere."
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Inkonkoni,
That's brilliant. I hope this wasn't the helper you were trying to get un-deported a few months ago.... I don't think this info would have helped your case!
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One story that made news all over the world was an enthusiastic cleaner in South Africa who got his first job at a hotel. The manager told him he had to clean the lift. He was gone for most of the morning. When asked why he took so long he explained that he had cleaned the lifts on the ground floor, the ones on the first floor, the ones on the second floor, etc etc. Sadly he was fired.
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One story,the employer bought a a live chicken in the market when she return home she ask the helper,please "fly the chicken"w/c means fry the chicken,without any word the helper went to the window and let the chicken fly.Without any word as well the employer fired her.By the way,they stayed in the 30/F.
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Kill a chicken in a 30F flat??? EEEEUUUUUUUUUUUWWWWWWWWW
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No -= I don't think she killed the chicken in the flat - it was already dead - she just threw it out the window to "fly it" - funny as!
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Here's one...There had been regular afternoon storms and the roof had a leak, so there was a strategically placed bucket on the floor. I was in the office around 2 when my part-time called. Did I want the buckets emptying. Yes. 3pm: storm. 4pm another call...Did I know I had a leaky roof...?
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You have to wonder where people come from that they don't know that socks match.
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Well... if you have never worn a pair of socks or had any need for a pair of socks - how would you know????
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dimac...I realise these places exist, I'm wondering how we can expect someone like that to run a washing machine, take care of babies, etc etc etc.
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Aaaagh! This was turning out to be such a refreshingly pleasant thread and it has degenerated into the same old thing.... We all know that we are better off than our helpers, can some of you just drop your 'agendas' for one minute and relax, enjoy the amusing anecdotes!
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In Tagalog, the letters p and f are almost interchangeable. Very occasionally, this carries over into Filipinas' spoken English (for example, you may hear Aferil rather than April).
Hence, two days before our little one's birthday party:
"Ma'am, should I prepare some farty food?"
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