Originally Posted by jayeff

You probably had to be there to find this as funny as it was at the time, but we had the housekeeper from hell many years ago. It got to the point that my father and I were going out early in the mornings and finding excuses to stay out of the house, just to avoid her. And he couldn't bring himself to fire her...

Fortunately she left of her own accord after a while, but it was several years before my father could bring himself to risk hiring a replacement. Finally he placed an ad and one evening the 'phone rang and I heard him begin explaining about why he was being so cautious as to who he would hire. He spent some time going over our 'adventures' with our last housekeeper and then put the 'phone down and started laughing his head off.

Apparently the conversation had finished with the caller saying something along the lines of "I don't think there is much point my coming for an interview, since I am the nightmare woman you have just been talking about in such detail..."