[Magdalen] Lottery tickets

[Jay Weigel]

It depends on where you are, I guess. We go through spells of staying in
hotels a lot due to S/O's work, and because I'm around the hotel during the
day much of the time, I tend to make friends with the help. In our part of
the world, domestic staff tends to be Hispanic, but a go little further
south and it's almost always African-American. In Florida at the place
where we stayed, they were all from the Caribbean, but when we were in the
DC area it kind of depended on the hotel--they all seem to be friends of
friends so each hotel is staffed differently. At one, they all seemed to be
African, at another, they were Russian, at a third Central American. The
last couple of times we went to east Tennessee, though, they were white.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 8:04 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','michaudme at gmail.com');>> wrote:

> Something I've found fascinating as I've traveled: where do the working
> poor work? And who are they?
>
> I remember being at Heathrow and realizing to my great surprise that the
> women cleaning the bathrooms were wearing saris. I was young, and the only
> women I'd ever seen wearing saris were the wives of physicians, kind, cool,
> remote, and very wealthy.
>
> Then I went to the western USA and discovered Navajo women cleaning motels.
>
> Stand back and look around and prepare to be astonished, I guess.
> -M
>
> On Sunday, February 14, 2016, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> > On 14/02/2016 06:02, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> >
> >> I think that pretty much all the convenience stores (my ex called them
> >> "stop and rob" stores) are now owned by East Indians in this area.
> >>
> >
> > This side of the pond they're run by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis for the
> > most part, still part of the Indian sub-continent.  We may see an
> > increasing number run by East Europeans in the coming years.  The common
> > theme is a willingness to work long hoyrs for little return.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>