Should a 76 year old woman be working in the snow?

YOUR HIGHNESS:

You should look at your servants as "inventory", or as a simple "business asset", like professional sports players are viewed by the team owners. Give her a "shot" and send her back out on the field.

At your first opportunity, replace her with a newer model. She might still have trading value. You might even trade for a future pick.

You are being too kind to her.

Sir, your questions are bally ridiculous, but the answers

are hilarious. The naivety of some people has the tears running down my face.

Your housekeeper is a slacker sir, replace her with a

15year old filly as soon as possible. She will work for

under the minimum wage 14hours a day 6 days a week.

And will live in to be on duty in the evenings, and Sundays..

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My Dear Marmalade

It is entirely too soon to be tilling that field if there is still snow on the ground!

Stop that woman from ruining your soil by muddying it up and packing it down!

She should better spend her time in the cellar hauling the casks up, or else in the portico chopping wood for the hearth, or shuttling the coal, depending on your tastes for heat and soot!

Oh! Has she scrubbed that nasty stain from the front drive yet?

Surely there are other tasks she can attend to during this slight dusting of winter white!

Regards

Kay

Indeed you should get her back inside for other tasks, but only when she has completed what you tasked her to do. Cuthbertson is now 93 and I sent him to 'Sniffy' Blenkinsops house to clear the snow, the old duffer had the temerity to ask for transport, blow me down, its only 3 miles across the fields and the river. You start pampering them and its the thin end of the wedge, I suppose, if you were feeling generous, you could send her down that old umbrella. Staff these days are getting to soft, its high time we cracked down.

I think if she is having suck a difficult time out in the snow you would find you may get your moneys worth out of her if you had her perform another task, such as scrubbing the floors. Then she would not have far to fall. It would be a shame if she broke a hip and you could not work her.

That's where you messed up, you should have hired her sister to relieve her when the snow got to deep. Then they could both have rest breaks for about 4 hours each and you would only pay them each the same amount. That way with two working for the price of one not only do you get twice the work, but half the pay. I am thinking anyway.

Why not, my mom had to shovel her way out doors, kept the shovel and mini blow torch in the hall closet next to the front door. One winter we talked her into leaving her place in the Sierra mountains(Calif.)because it was to hard to get the doors open so she just decided to hibernate till spring. Of course she had plenty to eat, read, etc. lol. We were afraid she would slip and fall and be covered up with snow until the spring melt.

She was as happy as a lark, with her two dogs and not worried at all.

Where is your humanity? Letting her collapse. Get her fitted with some sort of harness or frame so she can't fall over when she collapses that way she wont hurt herself and will recover quickly and get on with the work

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I take some o'dat back. Da family plot 'tis gettin ready to receive the next member.

'Tis the Arsenic in de alcohol-seems like ye might stagger out in de cold whilst ye got de energy and say final words to de Lawd Almighty!