Alternative cleanliness

Okay, something I just have to share.

A couple of weeks ago, I hired a new cleaning crew for my jobsites. I know, nothing ground breaking about this. I've hired plenty of cleaning crews in the past, and I've never felt obligated to tell the world about it. Let me explain.

The crew shows up to clean the first house for me, all of them with eager eyes, calloused hands, and 8 words of English between them. Actually, turned out that one of them did speak a little English. She was the spokesperson apparently. After a few non-threatening questions about the job at hand, I noticed she was in bad need of a quick little shave of the lip. No big deal, I've known lots of women who could use a shave.

I went about my bidness, and after a while, here comes the spokesperson in need of a shave with a few more questions for me. This time as I'm talking to her, I notice that under all that makeup, she had a really broad chin. And she carried herself rather peculiarly. (ha, I just used peculiarly in casual conversation)(not really conversation actually, but still...) And she REALLY needed a shave.

Then it hit me...this chick is ugly. After she left, I used a few of the 13 words in Spanish that I know to try to make some sort of sense of the alternate Universe that I found myself currently inhabiting. It was then that I found out her name was "Paulina".(with emphasis on Paul)

That's right folks! I have been somewhat involved in the construction industry since I was 12 years old, and I experienced something new! Never, ever, ever have I seen a tranny on a jobsite, and now I have one!(that's transvestite for all you peeps past 50 out there) That's right. I have a cross-dresser on my cleaning crew!(she/he does have great taste in ballerina slippers tho)

The issue becomes, how do I address her(him)? Um doesn't seem to be appropriate. "Hey you"? "Hello cleaner person of undecided gender" seems a bit long. How about if I just pretend I don't speak English? Or Spanish?(that ones easy)

All these years, and just when I thought I had it all figured out, life throws me a whole new curve ball! Whatcha gonna do?