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I had worked for this family for only a short time before realizing that there was no way that I was going to be able to stand them for an entire year. The mother was a foreign contracts negotiator for Total Oil and the father was sous-prefet of Boulogne Billancourt, which is kind of like being a police commissioner. He had been involved in the Socialist government and neither he nor his wife were enjoying their recent social decline. The wife kept going on about how she used to have three maids and a big apartment and now she had a hovel and only me!

Ugh!

Anyhow, it was dreadful. I found another nany job (which turned out to be wonderful--I worked with that family for two years) and told the woman that I would help her find another nanny, but I would not stay.

Well, Ms. Hardball Contract Negotiator was furax. How dare I disrupt her August vacation making her look for another nanny?! (I was fairly certain she was only waiting until after this vacation to fire me anyhow, the animosity was mutual, as animosity tends to be.)

She told me that I would either have to stay indefinitely until she found another nanny or else leave that very night.

I asked for a little time to think it over. She gave me two hours. I went to a pay phone and called the acquaintance at whose house I was supposed to have dinner. I barely knew him. I said, "I've been kicked out. Can I stay at your house tonight?" He didn't ask me any questions. He just said, "Yes."

I threw away almost everything I owned and packed the rest into a suitcase. I cleaned the little shithole mold-filled room the family had me living in from top to bottom, and went back to their apartment with about 15 minutes to spare, to give the woman her key.

I never saw her again.

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nanny , leaving in a hurry , getting kicked out , nightmare , the kindness of strangers