Biography 265: He thought I was a maid.

 In Bangladesh, it is very common for people to hire a maid for household work. In many cases, the maids are children from poor families.

We had a 5 storied buildings. Once, a new tenant came to our building on the 4th floor. When they arrived, they considered cleaning the floor with a maid/cleaner. I heard they were talking about something like that. At that moment, I was carrying a bucket of wet clothes to take to the roof from the 2nd floor to the 6th (the roof). It was heavy, and I was facing trouble. So, I was taking short breaks in between climbing up. I took a break in the middle of the 3rd and 4th floors. The apartment's door on the 4th floor was open, and the tenant's brother was looking at me while talking with her sister; he said something to her. I felt he was asking why we didn't ask this girl to clean our apartment. His sister saw me before when talking with my mom about the rent deal. She smiled and stopped her brother by saying she (me) was a landlord's daughter.

At that moment, I felt bad. B, but it was okay was just following Mom's instructions to help her. By the way, we had maids on those days.

It's not their fault, either. I used to dress poorly, and I used to have one pair of new dresses on Eid every year. My fashion sense is still very poor.