When it was time to leave, Mrs. Wales insisted that I keep my female clothes on and Mom smiled and agreed. On the way home she commented on how lucky I was to have such a nice girlfriend as Susie.
"It was so cute to see you ironing her clothes and doing her hair. You'll make a wonderful husband someday. by the way, Mrs. Wales gave me a good idea. Since you've not decided about what to do after graduation, she suggested that you would make a wonderful maid. She has lots of friends who would hire you for a day or two a week. I didn't know that you were doing so much of their housework as well as our own. Then you could still work at the shop on Saturdays. What do you think?"
"Oh, I don't know," I answered, but the idea, strangely, did have appeal. "But there's no such thing as male maids, are there?"
"Oh, I don't think that would be a problem. You'd go as a girl!"
So I knew as a certainty that my future would be one serving women, whether in a beauty shop doing their hair or in their laundry rooms washing their clothes. Oddly, I was quite content that this nagging question about what to do after graduation had been settled.