Butlers

grimslade · Feb 25, 2008

So, this morning my seven-year-old son asked me, "Dad, if we bought a mansion, would it have a butler and a maid?" I told him that there were still such things as butlers and maids, if you could afford them.

He replied excitedly, "So we could buy a butler?"

This prompted a discussion about how one does not buy butlers, but hires them. His next question was whether the butler would call him "Master."

kwilkinson · Feb 25, 2008

Hahahaha I love your kid already!

So how did you respond?

itsstillmatt · Feb 25, 2008

My Grandmother's butler called me Young Master Matthew.

GQgeek · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by iammatt

My Grandmother's butler called me Young Master ...

That explains a lot.

grimslade · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Hahahaha I love your kid already!

So how did you respond?

I explained to him that "Master" was a somewhat old-fashioned way of addressing boys too young to be called "Mister," and that he could call himself "Master James" if he really wanted to. It was an entertaining conversation. My wife walked into the middle of it and, without any clear idea what we were talking about, gave me that look that says, "Are you corrupting your children again?"

aragon765 · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by iammatt

My Grandmother's butler called me Young Master ...

Are you bruce wayne?

grimslade · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by iammatt

My Grandmother's butler called me Young Master ...

There's a wealth of insights into Matt packed into that one little sentence.

SoCal2NYC · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by iammatt

My Grandmother's butler called me Young Master Matthew.

My Grandmother's maid called me "mijo."

imageWIS · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

My Grandmother's maid called me "mijo."

How many maids do you have south of the border? In our apartment in Bs. As. we used to have 3. In the house in the country we used to have 4. Now we only have 1.

Jon.

kwilkinson · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

My Grandmother's maid called me "mijo."

Originally Posted by imageWIS

How many maids do you have south of the border? In our apartment in Bs. As. we used to have 3. In the house in the country we used to have 4. Now we only have 1.

Jon.

Jesus.... how rich are you two?

When I was a kid I had to do the dishes myself.... and one summer, I broke the dishwasher, and as a lesson I had to do the dishes every night by hand! Woe is me.

RJman · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

My Grandmother's maid called me "mijo."

Does that mean "Little Asparagus Sprig"?

Anyway, who says you need a mansion to have a butler?

Originally Posted by imageWIS

arglebargle
When did this turn into an e-butler measuring contest?

imageWIS · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by RJman

When did this turn into an e-butler measuring contest?

It didn't, I was just wondering. I'm quite sure that his immediate family is wealthier than mine.

Anyways, WTF are you complaining about, over there, wearing your bespoke Charvet shirts?

Jon.

emptym · Feb 25, 2008

I was a butler for a couple of years. Of course, I preferred the term, "Filipino house boy."

kronik · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by kronik

When I was a kid I had to do the dishes myself.... I had to do the dishes every night by hand! Woe is me.

How the **** did I end up on this board, I wonder.

imageWIS · Feb 25, 2008

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Jesus.... how rich are you two?

When I was a kid I had to do the dishes myself.... and one summer, I broke the dishwasher, and as a lesson I had to do the dishes every night by hand! Woe is me.

My sister once broke the insinkerator, so we ate out until my parents came back from Europe.

I don't particularly like how dishwashers clean, so I always hand clean first before putting the dishes into the machine.

Maids tend to be rather inexpensive in South America (Jehovah's Witnesses tend to make the best maids, since they don't steal anything).

Jon.

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