[Rick Lee]

I have a lot of experience here. When I was a senior in high school, there were a lot of German au pairs in my town. I had just returned from a student exchange in Germany, so I wanted to keep my German polished and got to be friends with one up the street. Pretty soon I got to know all her friends too. And I'm still friends with her and her family in Germany to this day. Her father helped me buy my first motorcycle when I went to work in Germany a few years later. This was around 1988-89. Back then they made about $150 a week, got a car and free room and board. The one I knew best got her job because the host parents had recently divorced because - wait for it - the husband was banging the previous German au pair. Now that there was no man in the house anymore, and the wife worked full time, she needed an au pair and no longer had to worry about her stealing her man. I believe one other au pair in this group was banging the husband in her host family and was fired. But she found another family to work for pretty quickly and so didn't have to leave. None of these girls had work permits and all came here on a tourist visa. I only knew two of them who were really hittable, but they were REALLY hittable. Pure divorce court bait.