The Washington Post, April 5, 2022
The carpet cleaner heaves his machine up the stairs, untangles its hoses and promises to dump the dirty water only in the approved toilet. Another day scrubbing rugs for less than $20 an hour. Another Washington area house with overflowing bookshelves and walls covered in travel mementos from places he would love to go one day.
But this was not that day.
“Tell me about this stain,” 46-year-old Vaughn Smith asks his clients.
“Well,” says one of the homeowners, “Schroeder rubbed his bottom across it.”