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Don’t get me wrong. I love Olga. I love what she’s doing for my kids. I have almost no complaints. She’s helping them learn Spanish, which will be very handy in Los Angeles — which by the time they’re in high school will be referred to as North Tijuana. But one issue I do have with Olga is how she calls Natalia “Mama.” I know this is a Latino thing, but I don’t like it. I don’t understand the deal with calling eight-year-olds “Mama.” It’s always the kids and the elderly that get this name. They don’t call anyone “Mama” who can actually be a mother. The ones who haven’t sprouted their first pube, and the ones whose eggs are powdered are “Mamas,” but the actual mamas not so much. I know that this can’t be helping the teen pregnancy rate in the Latin community. When you start calling a kid “Mama” at age four, you’re pretty much prepping them to become actual mamas by age twelve.

The second issue I have is what I have termed the Nan-boree. Every couple of weeks, I’ll come home to find that my driveway is full and my house is a swarm of wealthy white kids all brought over by Olga’s underground na

Interruption is a constant theme in my house, and it is not just caused by my kids. I had a run-in with our maid just the other day. It was eight-thirty in the morning, and I was sitting at the computer in my bathrobe, letting gas pass with my first cup of coffee, as I do loud and proud when I’m in my own home. Then she did the simultaneous knock and enter.

What is that all about? What does that accomplish? The point of knocking is to warn the person who’s farting or beating off that you’re about to catch them in the act. If you do the simultaneous knock and enter, you don’t give them enough time to holster their junk, only enough time to look horrified as you catch them dick in hand. You’re supposed to knock and wait for a response or just barge in, but not both. Now I have the humiliation of you catching me in the act and the horrible moment right before that, when I know it’s going to happen. If you’re going to shoot me, just put a bullet in me while I sleep. Don’t wake me up and let me see the gun in my face first.

So a couple of hours later, my maid was cleaning the bathroom and I i

As a side note, Hispanic women, you shouldn’t be as jumpy as you are. You come from a land where finding a duffel bag full of heads is a common occurrence. Why do you leap out of your skin when I step into my own kitchen to top off my coffee?

Then Olga got me a few weeks later. This time I was on the shitter. You’re supposed to knock and then wait for a response like “Excuse you!” “Wait a second” or “My anus is dilated” (okay, maybe that last one is a little wordy and personal). Again, there was no pause between the knock and her entering the room. Of course she found me on the shitter, because there was nothing I could do in the three-tenths of a second she gave me to react. So why bother knocking at all? Why not just kick the door in and do a shoulder roll like a SWAT team if you have no intention of actually pausing long enough to hear if a noise comes from the other side of the door?

And to you assholes who feel the need to point out that I could lock my bathroom door: One should not have to lock one’s bathroom door while in one’s home making a number two.

While we’re on locks, let’s discuss the well-known but tragic fact that having kids also means that your sex life is pretty much over. This is why there’s so much fucking in hotels. When parents actually do manage to get away from the kids for a weekend, that hotel room becomes Sodom and Gomorrah because there have been so many thwarted boning opportunities at home.