Everything I Need to Know Now
- Shahanna explains what Lakshmi needs to know about the house. As a member of the Happiness House, Lakshmi should remember these rules: try to get the customers to choose her, tell them she's twelve instead of her real age, do whatever the customer asks, wash herself after a customer leaves.
- If a customer likes her, he may give her a sweet or tip her; Lakshmi should keep these for herself so that Mumtaz doesn't take them.
- When a government woman comes with condoms, take some—but don't let Shilpa, the aging bird girl, see them because she spies for Mumtaz.
- When Americans try to trick Lakshmi to run away, don't be tricked by them and go with them because they will just shame her.
- Lakshmi should learn several tricks with her shawl as well.
- Anita says that there is another way to use a shawl and explains that Mumtaz found the new girl that replaced Lakshmi hanging from the ceiling the morning before.