The mean little Filipino lady :(

My parents were in the Air Force so as a child I had the privilige of traveling and living in different places. One of those places, as you already know was Germany. While in Germany we had a housekeeper named Ms. Letty, a nice little ol' Filipino lady, or so I thought. She cooked, and cleaned for room and board and pay (I don't know to this day how much she paid her).

Now, my mom and I NEVER saw eye to eye. We are so much a like, but yet, we had our separate views on things, so we ALWAYS clashed. So, about a year after Ms. Letty was there, my mom started getting on me about the phone bill, and how I need to stay off the phone, blah, blah, blah. But I would always tell her, I don't call anybody in the states, and the calls I do make are local. See, the phone bills in Germany weren't like the ones here, where it details the calls you made. Nope, it was a bill with an amount, and that's what you pay (at least that's what I remember).

Then she started talking about I was taking her work uniforms, etc... now I'm really looking at this lady like she's crazy. It just so happened that one day, my mom came home for lunch (we lived off base in the "economy" which is a German town). Don't you know that she walked in on Ms.Letty packing up her uniforms, along with toilet paper, paper towels, etc. All this time my mom was blaming me, it was HER! She was sending this stuff back to her people in the Philippines. I was NEVER so happy when my mom put her out. Our phone bills went from 1000 marks (it was marks at the time) to 200 marks. HA! And the best part of all....... my mom had to apologize to me...... hee hee... HAHAHAHAHA!!!! It felt good!

Love you mom! ;)