By Tcheser
Despite being barely 5’2”, Mrs. Lexi Travers was hard to ignore, With her comparatively large breasts, cute little button nose, flashy blonde hair, designer clothes, flashy jewelry and sky high heels she drew quite a bit of attention. She was exceedingly spoiled, opinionated, high maintenance and stuck up though, which was odd considering that her father was just a dentist from Yonkers. The fact that she was both selfish and self-righteous didn’t help matters either. Nor did the way she thought that because of her year of studying interior design at a community college before marrying her husband Mark, a successful young lawyer, she was smarter than everyone else when almost the exact opposite was probably true. Behind her back people had a habit of called her “the Princess”.
So naturally when she and Mark moved to the small working class neighborhood of East Garden, and at her insistence, erected a great eyesore of a 6 bedroom, 3 car garage McMansion, she had a hard time fitting in. One might think it was because people like her, with money, could bring gentrification to a neighborhood like East Garden and force current residents to move as real estate prices rose, but that wasn’t it at all. The current residents, all hardworking people and mostly recent immigrants disliked her because she was a spoiled obnoxious bitch.
Lexi particularly alienated the neighborhood women when on the second day of moving into her gaudy palace she went door to door asking if the women would like to be her housekeeper, as if she assumed they were all housekeepers or all so lowly that this would be a step up for them. When she asked her neighbor, Carla, if she wanted to be her housekeeper she was even so insulting as to promise not to call INS to make sure she was legal. This was particularly insulting as Carla had immigrated legally, a long difficult process, and had worked herself up from nothing to being the manager of a local supermarket. Furious Carla called her a number of foul things in both English and Spanish before slamming the door in Lexi’s face.
So when Lexi had her bad day, no one was especially sympathetic with the princess’ plight, and a good many thought she had it coming.
