The Job You Did Badly on Purpose
You hate emptying the dishwasher, so today you did it... badly. On purpose. You shoved things in the wrong cupboards, left the cutlery jumbled, "forgot" half of it. Your secret plan: if you're rubbish at it, maybe they'll stop asking you and give the job to someone else. It almost worked. Your mum sighed and said "just leave it, I'll do it." You felt a flicker of victory. Then you saw her, tired after a long day, redoing the job you'd deliberately wrecked, and the victory turned into something that didn't feel good at all.
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