I guess, I never realized that one of the blessings of where I live is that you never have any ads in your mail box. Well. Hardly ever. Because there are those rare occasions in which you actually find a student or organization kindly offering their services and generously placing some info paper in your mail box. But as I said: those occasions are rare.

Unless you count the services offered by the kids of our dear foreign faculty colleagues. Ever since I first got here, a few of them have advertised their services by placing posters around the foreign faculty residences, offering to take out your trash, water your plants, do your shopping, dust your home, and clean your floors, etc. Until recently.

A short while ago, they got smarter. Now they don’t limit their advertising to posters, now they’ve found that a new method may actually be more effective.

And so recently, I keep finding little notices sticking on the door to my apartment, notices that you can’t just ignore.

I guess, someone really is in need of some little extra money. And I’m left to wonder who’ll offer their services next …