Vacation Rocks..Life hmm Sucks !

How many of us have while vacationing in India have thought - wow..what a life, what luxury to have help around the house, how neat that we dont have to do our own laundry, how totally cool that we do not have to load/run the dishwasher...Hip Hip Hooray for the indian maids !
Well guilty as charged...I have. I used to have this totally green feeling, and after a few weeks here used to go back to US quite morose with the banal lifestyle of "Do it yourself" philosophy. Guess What ??? I am eating my own words now... Because lo and behold I am back in India for good, and a huge eye opener for me is..Yes you can get domestic help BUT
They ask for the moon & stars and more..
They are totally absolutely , very reliably... UNRELIABLE !
They have no sense of time...and every time you ask them to stick to time.... and they look at you like you must be demented
& They are more often than not the reason for familial disputes of mammoth proportions !Soooooooooo.. the gandhian philosophy of self-help doesnt sound too bad in retrospect does it ?