2BHK house with attached Maid!!

When do you call yourself "lucky"... When you get a blind date and she turns out to be Illiyana.. Or when you get a chance to dine with Anushka in her new 3BHK flat;-).. Or a rain dance with Mamta mohandas.. Or a free invitation to new year eve celebrations party where Mallika She.raw.at is performing.. Or you get an instant home loan from SBI.. Or Trivikram Srinivas comes and asks you to help him in directing his next movie..!!..

None of these things happen unless you somehow manage to corrupt the Matrix. :) And IMO getting a neat house in good locality for a reasonable rent as a bachelor in this Silicon city also falls pretty much into the same category.

While I was enjoying my long vacation in my hometown after an accident, my friend here, had a tough time searching a for a house for us with restrictions like it should be located on ground floor.. or lift facility should be there.. etc..etc.. Finally after breaking few coconuts, he found a "good" friend, (well a separate blog only can describe this new friend!), and through him, he got a nice beautiful ground floor house in very good locality.. everybody liked that house.. and I even remember my bus-mates passing envious comments like.. "aap ka ghar tou white house jaisa lagraha hi"!!.. yeah... right.. just the intern is missing!.. "Oh wow!! its so close to Jelly Beans you are so lucky!!.". (got to know later that its a children's play home). Never thought it could be a reason to consider oneself lucky!!

But, seriously, its a good house, in a very good location.. with a nice park opposite to house.. always filled with health conscious people.. (yeah you are right! ;-)) running around....and a pretty wide road..with no traffic...And not to forget the girl in tight jeans.. who accompanies "crazy", the puppy..

But all these things came with few weird terms and conditions attached..
- The Varandah light should be on till 10 o clock in the night.. even if you sleep at 9..
- And that light should not be on whole night.. again, even if you sleep at 9!.
Well it isn't that bad..considering the plus points it has.. is it?
- Don't open windows of any room when you are not in the room.. thieves may come inside! Make sure all doors are closed... Make sure the light in front room is on till 9 so that people.. (read it as thieves) think someone is in the house!! .. blah blah.. and more blah blah..
Safety conscious. Nothing wrong in it!!.
- No permission to get your own maid for work. If at all you need a maid to work then only owner's approved maid (that is owner's maid) can work in the house.
Wow..You are getting a good house and you don't need to search for a maid.. sounds great.. hun..?

So the maid is fixed.. what's next..
- not just maid, but her pay scale is also fixed..
Ahem! ohkay!
- and the raise in her salary is also fixed..
Irrespective of whether you get a hike or not? ok!
- The maid would come to your house only after she completes work in owners house.
Hmmm!! It doesn't really sound that great now..does it? But still fine.. every package comes with its own pros and cons. (I hear someone saying "Well.. Not with a Maid!!")

Actually it worked out OK for us as bachelors. But only after my friend got married and moved in with family that he started getting the real pinch.

After his marriage..
- The maid got a huge salary hike more than 120%..
Have you ever got such a hike? Seriously.. Not over 7 years time frame!! in A single pay hike??
- She comes only after 12 (positively) after finishing all her duties at owners house.
Boy..You should see how much work she does there at owners house.. Have you ever heard of bonded laborers?.

My friend's family slowly got used to it... even when she was coming late.. or even when she did not come.. they somehow learned to manage..

Now since the owners do not have anything else to think about.. they start thinking every other thing and then start feeling that four is too big a number to live in 2bhk house! Cos it takes 215.5 ltrs more water per day compared to two ppl.. and 1.534 units of more power consumption everyday.. and 6.22K avogadro numbers of more Oxygen molecule consumption and Over and above, 21 minutes 32 seconds of more work to the maid!!.. that is not acceptable!!!

And all these thoughts make the Lady of the house scream one fine day, "You guys are giving too much work to the maid and if you continue to do so, she will stop working for us!! And moreover giving that much work is against all the labor laws. So why don't you buy a washing machine?!!".

Sometimes life doesn't give too many options to choose from... and thus a brand new fully automatic (semi-automatic would call for some manual work!!) washing machine becomes part of their life from the very next day.

If you are wondering, how he is still managing without a change in his address, there comes the savior, the little whizkid, his daughter, who is the only person on the mother earth, that i know of, who could control this land lady!!.
Till now, no one managed to get as many smiles, screams out of joy, from that little one, as the land lady got. The way she screams in joy when she sees her, one has to see it to believe it. And that very act is making the land lady cool a bit.. and thus they are surviving.

Boy, I have to find out how my friend trained the little girl. I would definitely need it, if I decide to stay in this city after marriage.

So.. thats about it.. any takers for this package of 2bhk house with attached maid? I can give you mail id of the owners, once my free lunch/dinner invitations stop coming from there! I had a dinner 2days back there, so not in this week! but still.. let me know!

PS: The girl in jeans, is a 'lady' in jeans now, but the park is still Green, if that helps!