Curtains

My curtains have gone missing, together with the lady whom I've hired to wash them! And because she does our ironing too, our stockpile of pressed clothes in the wardrobe are dwindling, whereas in our living room, clothes waiting to be pressed are piling up! Where are my curtains?

So this lady, happily took the 'black-out' curtains that can't be sent to the laundry, together with an amount of money which my mother thinks is blackmail, and went away.

A week later, she calls to say that she has taken my curtains to the laundry ( and I specifically said it cannot be sent to the laundry and must only be hand washed) and that they want 4 times as much money to wash them! i.e HundredS of dollars!

I told her the curtains cannot be sent to the laundry, that I've tried and they've rejected it, that no, it does not cost hundredS of dollars even if they can be laundered and that my curtains can only be hand washed carefully because of the rubber backing and that she can take it back to me if she doesn't want to do it and that I don't have hundredS of dollars for her.

She quickly said that she has already washed 2 pieces nicely and that it works and that the laundry guys needed that amount because they've spoilt their client's curtains before. That's why need to charge hundredS of dollars to do it.

??? I told her I already tried taking it to the laundry and they won't do it. I've taken them to the biggest laundry shop I know, not just collection points and they told me it cannot be washed or dry cleaned! And that the pieces that could be washed or dry cleaned have already been taken care by them!

And then she tells me she has a sister working at so-and-so hotel and they have big washing machines that she can use and to do my curtains so no need to send to the laundry next time. So she can put my curtains into her sister's hotel's washing machines.

Confused!! So I repeated, "No! No Laundry! Cannot put my curtains in into the washing machine! Can only wash by hand. CANNOT PUT IN WASHING MACHINES! I can take my curtains back!"

She said, "Ok ok, I can I can wash by hand, no problems, when do you need it? Not so soon? Can wait a not?

Me, "(thinking...oh s**t) How much time you need?"

She said, "A week! And I come and iron for you on Monday ok?"

I said, "ok"

She didn't turn up yesterday.

The Big One thinks she has already spent the money I gave her for the curtains and so, cannot return the curtains to me. Me thinks she will still put them in the washing machine despite all warnings.