Also, if it were a family of boys with nary a girl, I might suspect that it's Laura from Project Runway hiring.
And if you want, you can live in their house for reduced rent?!
And she wants a fit, young thang to do this job!
And the legal/PERFECT english seems like code for: we want someone white.
t still boggling
The comments on the LJ RSS feed are full of people not getting it too.
If that kid is an ungrad at Columbia, I really hope the student newspaper gets a hold of it and finds out the kid's name and then rails against the ridic.
How many people here have read
The Nanny Diaries
which I'm told isn't all that far from the truth.
At any rate, how likely is it that Snooty McSnooterson is going to put her own Craigslist ad online? They have nanny agencies out there for a reason, as in not having to do any heavy lifting to actually, you know, investigate the person who is going to be taking charge of your nearest and dearest.
In my experience, the university academic world is vastly different from the world of primary and secondary teaching.
If that kid is an ungrad at Columbia, I really hope the student newspaper gets a hold of it and finds out the kid's name and then rails against the ridic.
I kind of want to apply to find out.
Yes to all of posts 20-25
I don't get this xkcd comic: [link]
Step away from the crazy?