The hardest part for me to stomach in "Scrubbing in Maine" was how little the maids would eat and drink during a normal working shift. No food or water while they were cleaning the inside of homes. A half a bag of Doritos for lunch and nothing else during an eight hour work day. The hungrier maids had a sandwich to hold them over until five p.m. I know this is the middle-class, white-male coming out of me, but don't they realize that they need food to work - to survive?? I realize that they are poor, that they have children to cloth and feed. But a bag of Doritos? Why not just skip the bag of Doritos for two or three days and buy a loaf of bread that will last all week?
It just makes me so upset to see and hear about people who are hungry because I love to eat so much. I hate to see people starving, especially the maid who is pregnant during Ms. Ehrenreich's stay in Maine.
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Its sad, but this is how lots of people all over the world live. They live day to day on whatever little money they can spend that day. They do not necessarily plan ahead on what is best to do, but simply what is the most convenient thing for them at that time.
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