Cheaper than a Cup of Coffee in Heels

Ayi is Chinese for maid. I have an ayi. I pay her the equivalent of three dollars an hour. She cleans my apartment in high heels. She does not wear these high heels over to the apartment. She leaves the high heels at my apartment. She comes over in normal flats, enters the apartment, removes her flats and puts on the high heels that have been sitting there since the last time she cleaned. I did not request that she clean in high heels. I will from now on request that all cleaning people (yes people) wear high heels. My ayi is comfortably in her 60s. I am perplexed. I would gladly up her wage to 4 dollars an hour. I am going to smoke a cigarette.