I’m a professional housecleaner. My first house today was beautiful and pretty big (4,000+ sq ft.) I had never cleaned this house before today.
It’s kind of interesting to clean the home of people you have never actually met while they are not home. I never snoop but I do learn about people just by the state of their house or whatever is out. These people seemed like they really needed us. I would guess they are busy and don’t have much time for cleaning and organizing (but definitely have an active S life judging by the master bedroom).
I love cleaning dirty houses and was like amping myself up by doing a mini Rocky training montage warmup and finding the perfect music to work to. I was sweating like 4 hours in but I was getting this house sparkling! All I had left to clean were the floors when a man walked in.
I welcomed him home and let him know I just needed to clean the floors and would be finished soon. He looked super confused and then kind of grinned and asked if I was his birthday gift. I didn’t really know what he meant. Maybe his wife scheduled the service on his birthday? I just answered with, “maybe? Happy birthday, Mr. Henricks!” To which he looked even more confused and told me his name was not Henricks.
Well. That’s because his next-door neighbour, my actual client, is Mr Henricks. I walked my happy self into the wrong house and cleaned the hell out of it. And then the guy who lived there came home and thought I was a S worker role-playing as a housecleaner hired by his wife as a birthday present.
I was so totally embarrassed explaining myself to this guy and my boss. (The entry instructions in the app said the client wouldn’t be home but that there was a key under the mat. There was no key under the mat but the front door was unlocked ). This is not even the first time in my life that I have let myself into the wrong house, although the first time was not a work thing.
On the plus side, the dude was so happy with how clean his house was that I finished the floors and he paid me what my company would have charged him plus a tip!
Here are what netizens think:
- I mean. Sounds like a happy ending to me!
- My mom has been a housecleaner for as long as I been alive, damn she knows how to clean a house. She admits she loves the smell of diluted bleach after cleaning and so does her cat, her cat will roll around anything cleaned with bleach and will like rub her face alllll over your hands if they smell like it lol… apparently it mimics some pheromones in wee.
- At least you still got paid lmao so your efforts were not wasted