![]() Another roommate took it upon himself to teach me how to mop floors. I never realized that there was any skill involved in washing dishes until the summer I lived in my first apartment and my two roommates banned me from the kitchen sink. Sometimes, particularly if I was supposed to be writing a paper or something, I would tidy up my room by rounding up dust balls with my bare hands and plucking stray hairs from the carpet. I spent lots of time reading Betty Friedan and Virginia Woolf, who taught me that domesticity was a sign of female enslavement. During college, I mastered the art of preparing Kraft macaroni and cheese in a hot pot. I learned how to operate a lawnmower and a vacuum cleaner, how to cook scrambled eggs and bake chocolate chip cookies, how to sew on a button and repair a seam, and how to do the laundry (the punishment following an unfortunate incident involving a crayon forgotten in a pocket). I deeply admire her for this.īefore I grew up and left home, I was taught a few necessary survival skills. According to family legend, my grandmother attempted it as a young bride and hated it so much, she took a job as a schoolteacher in order to pay a cleaning woman to come in three days a week. ![]() ![]() I come from a line of people who do not clean. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Line-Up Announced > Close ![]()
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