Increasing ignorance of the family…

So my maid’s daughter is in town. Today, as supposed to be, she is on off and decided to take her daughter out. Usually, on a normal Sunday, my brother would bring his family over for dinner, so my maid has to prepare food for them. So much for the off.

Here’s what happens on normal sundays.

Maid goes out, come back by 1630hrs to prepare dinner for my brother. Then I ask her if they are eating, she says “should be”. So I give him a call, 4/7 times, they are actually eating. The other 3 times, they either made plans to bring everyone out to dinner, planned to go out for dinner themselves or just plain not eating. See… The reason why my maid prepares them dinner is that they naturally come over for dinner on Sundays! It has come to a point where they don’t call to say whether or not they are eating. We only know when I call them. When they say they are not eating, the food is left to waste.

Then, there’s my mum who recently told me not to eat at home on sundays, give my maid some rest. Obviously not realising that she’s not cooking for me, but my brother and his useless family. When I do bring this point up to my mum, she says, “then when they are not eating give her some rest…” Right, so this is where I stand in the family, at the lowest priority.