Georgette Starkey Quotes in Maid to Order (1987)

Georgette Starkey: [Early morning; Jessie is preparing to mop the Starkeys' floor] Jessie...! I like to get this floor *really* shiny. So, in order to get it *completely* clean, it becomes necessary to get down on your hands and knees - and to scrub every little square inch by hand. No mop... Questions?

Jessie Montgomery: Yeah. When's lunch?

Georgette Starkey: For the help? There *is* no lunch, until and unless the work is done.

Jessie Montgomery: [DELETED LINE - hours later, almost noon. Jessie is nearly finished scrubbing the floor by hand; it looks terrific] ... Okay, last leg. Thank God she didn't ask me to use a toothbrush.

Georgette Starkey: [DELETED LINE... she charges in, carrying - what else? - a toothbrush] *Jessie!* I *apologize;* I forgot to tell you to use... Oh, are you finished already?

Jessie Montgomery: [DELETED LINE - scrubbing the last square foot] Just.

Georgette Starkey: [DELETED LINE - handing her the toothbrush] Well, that's okay; just start all over again. Bye now, I'm off...!

[Jessie glares incredulously at the toothbrush. Then she kicks over the bucket of soapy water she's been using and, flustered, proceeds to toothbrush the entire floor]