So we’re renting this lovely villa in Conchas Chinas (PV) Mexico, and it comes with a housekeeper…anyhoo, I needed to do some laundry the other morning, so I took the sheets she’d cleaned out of the dryer and folded them for her. She responded by finishing my laundry and folding it for me…well, the gauntlet was thrown down and the challenge accepted. She cooked dinner for us and 6 guests the other night - my wife and I got back from a Costco adventure to get meat for grilling, and the house was fragrant with roasting peppers - best fuckin’ chile rellenos I’ve ever eaten. So when dinner was ready I told her she could go home and we’d clean after ourselves…victory mine. This morning I’m warming the iron to press my wife’s clothes for her and I hear Flora come in…first thing she does is start ironing. Victory hers.

Two more days…gotta think of something special to do for her.