2008 Woodie Awards
Does Rosie the Robot do the cleaning around here?
Will Maddox
Issue date: 4/4/08 Section: Opinion
Let me start off by saying I love the housekeepers here in the dorms at Trinity. In Thomas, Rosie and Rosa are always friendly, allow me to practice my Spanish and always have something that smells delicious in the kitchen on Thomas Third.
We are spoiled rotten here at Trinity, and the vacuuming, sink cleaning and toilet scrubbing that these selfless GCA Services Group employees do is just more evidence that we are getting way more than we deserve. And for that I am thankful.
I do think these columns are funnier if I have something to complain about, but it would be a gross error to take my pokes at our housekeeping operation as a sign of ingratitude.
That said, I am constantly bewildered by several aspects of the service we receive cleaning our rooms. I will never forget my first year; as I was napping in the safe confines of Calvert First, I was smacked in the face (not literally) by the cacophony of the vacuum blasting into my eardrums, a weapon wielded by a housekeeper who went on as if nothing had happened.
I think there might be a market for alarm clocks that sound like someone is vacuuming the carpet 18 inches from your face, because I was wide awake at that point.
I wonder what goes through their minds when they happen upon a peacefully sleeping student in the dorms.
Do their eyes light up, having a chance to have a laugh and wake up a lazy student? Do they think about skipping the room altogether or waiting to come back when the napper has come back to life? Or perhaps they have difficulty discerning between a napping student and a passed-out student (i.e. one who had a few too many pints at Pint Night at Broadway 50/50 the night before and who is not usually disturbed by the vacuum's roar, thus encouraging the housekeepers to continue vacuuming)?
Whatever the reason, I have woken up to the loud humming of the vacuum a few times in my years here, and I have always wondered about the motivations behind the thought that sleep and vacuuming go together like EZ Cheese and Ritz crackers.
We are spoiled rotten here at Trinity, and the vacuuming, sink cleaning and toilet scrubbing that these selfless GCA Services Group employees do is just more evidence that we are getting way more than we deserve. And for that I am thankful.
I do think these columns are funnier if I have something to complain about, but it would be a gross error to take my pokes at our housekeeping operation as a sign of ingratitude.
That said, I am constantly bewildered by several aspects of the service we receive cleaning our rooms. I will never forget my first year; as I was napping in the safe confines of Calvert First, I was smacked in the face (not literally) by the cacophony of the vacuum blasting into my eardrums, a weapon wielded by a housekeeper who went on as if nothing had happened.
I think there might be a market for alarm clocks that sound like someone is vacuuming the carpet 18 inches from your face, because I was wide awake at that point.
I wonder what goes through their minds when they happen upon a peacefully sleeping student in the dorms.
Do their eyes light up, having a chance to have a laugh and wake up a lazy student? Do they think about skipping the room altogether or waiting to come back when the napper has come back to life? Or perhaps they have difficulty discerning between a napping student and a passed-out student (i.e. one who had a few too many pints at Pint Night at Broadway 50/50 the night before and who is not usually disturbed by the vacuum's roar, thus encouraging the housekeepers to continue vacuuming)?
Whatever the reason, I have woken up to the loud humming of the vacuum a few times in my years here, and I have always wondered about the motivations behind the thought that sleep and vacuuming go together like EZ Cheese and Ritz crackers.
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