Nickel and Dimed
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After revealing my "secret identity , so to speak, of being a Kalamazoo College student doing research on class and gender issues to Mrs. O'Connor I could tell by her expression that she is quite surprised by this revelation. The comments that followed her expression are what happened to surprise myself. Mrs. O'Connor says that I was different from the others and that I obviously wasn't one of "them" and a "different type of person". What makes me so different that made me stand out to Mrs. Connor from the other females in my cleaning crew ? For a moment I actually ponder whether or not there was some sort of trait or characteristic I held that would justify her remarks. I gaze into the mirror at my frizzled hair ,baggy eyes and sweat stained lime-green polo shirt, then I turn to see Roaslie walking to The Maids van. There is nothing that distinguishes us from another, or from any other member of our group...