“Listen to that noise!” Megan cried, angrily tugging the comb through her freshly washed brown hair. “Don’t you hear it?” she demanded, glaring at her husband across the room.
“Of course I do,” he muttered absently, not looking up from his crossword puzzle.
“It’s almost midnight and she’s down there in her nightgown watching television with the volume full blast! We can’t sleep through that. She has to go, Tom! That damned Latina bitch has got to go!”
“So fire her ass,” Tom said, glancing up, slightly irritated by the interruption.
“Tom,” she whined.
“What?” He sighed, reluctantly putting down the puzzle book.
“I can’t fire her,” Megan said, turning to face him.
“Why the hell not?” he asked in quiet exasperation.
“I just can’t. You do it.”
“No!” He vehemently shook his head. “Megan, I told you when you hired her that managing her was your responsibility. You wanted a maid? Fine. I agreed that you needed help with the house if you were going to go back to work as an accountant. I thought you were talking about a cleaning lady, but you wanted to hire a live-in maid. Fine. I didn’t object. I didn’t say a word. But the deal was that you had to supervise her and manage her yourself. That was the agreement. I’ve got people at work to manage and I’ll be damned if I’m going take on the same duties at home. When I come home I want to relax. We agreed on that in the beginning.” Read more »