United States or Dominican Republic ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was about that. “Irma! you've got your foot in the middle of that white apron!” “Irma! you creased one of these pajama legs down the middle! Do it over.” I pondered much during my laundry days as to why they kept Irma. She told me she first worked down on the shirt-and-collar floor and used to do “one hundred and ten shirts an hour,” but the boss got down on her.
It seems etee-quette at the laundry requires each girl sit at the table where her floor sits. That second day I was at the shirt-and-collar table, and they, I was afterward told, are particularly exclusive. Indeed they are. At 12.45 the second bell rings. Miss Cross calls out, “All right, girls!” Clank, the presses begin again, and all afternoon I iron gentlemen's underpinnings.
Word Of The Day