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Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host
social and today we have a topic, talk episode.
And social today's topic is what household chores do you usually help with?
And which ones do you enjoy and which ones do you hate?
Well, Jack, I live alone.
So you do all of them?
Yeah, I do. Or none of them. I don't know. It depends on how I live.
Yeah, now that I live in Mexico, I pay someone to come do some of them and I do some of them.
So that kind of works out pretty well for me.
But lately, the person that I was paying to come do household chores,
unfortunately her father got ill and I totally get that.
So I've been handling them on my own.
And I like cooking. If there's other people around,
like I hate cooking just for myself.
Yeah, me too. I hate like there's nothing lonely
or then frying like one egg.
You know what I mean?
Oh my God. What's wrong with my life, you know?
I know.
Yeah.
And we have no one to eat with and it's like just the thing.
Yeah.
So if I'm alone, a lot of the times I'll just end up ordering food like Uber Eats or whatever.
Oh nice.
Yeah.
And but if there's even just one other person with me, I'm happy to cook.
Like other chores that I do like wash the dishes, do my laundry, sweep mop.
Is there one that like really irks you that just drives you crazy that you really hates?
Uh, okay. I don't like sweeping and mopping because it makes my back hurt,
which is like clear.
Uh-huh.
But I don't know why, but my back really hurts whenever I like sweeping mop.
So I don't like that.
I don't like getting that.
Yeah.
Even though I don't mind sweeping and mopping, it's just the fact that my back only
hurts.
Like really, it makes me.
And I feel like, yeah, I don't like doing the dishes.
I used to really like doing the dishes when I was a kid.
And now I hate doing the dishes because it's like just the nasty food on it or like other
people's mouths.
Every month we have that like reddit thread like kids are freaking stupid.
You know, like a kid.
Like kids are like, oh man, I wish I were old enough to mature enough to wash the dishes.
You know, right?
They kind of trick you into doing it.
You know, yeah.
I know.
You think it's fun.
And then you're like, you can come and I don't, you have to do the dishes every day.
And the kitchen is never clean.
And every time you cook something, the kitchen's dirty again.
And then it just makes me want to eat out all the time because I don't have to do dishes.
I don't have to clean my kitchen.
I just like, yeah, I don't.
And eating out is not expensive in Mexico, in Wohaka, right?
No, it's not too expensive.
You can get a full meal for like three to four bucks probably.
Like you can get what they call Camila Corrida, which is like the big meal today.
And you get like a fresh water that like has a fruit flavor usually.
And a whole meal and then sometimes they'll give you like dessert.
And you get like a main dish and two side dishes.
And that's like three or four dollars.
So at that point, it's like, I don't really want to cook.
So three dollars in Korea will buy you like a,
you won't even buy you a coffee man.
You won't even buy you a coffee.
I mean, you could maybe you could get the cup,
but there won't be anything in it, you know?
Yeah.
For three dollars.
Yeah.
Yeah, that jack, what are the ones that you hate to do?
And what, which ones do you do in general?
Yeah. So I'm basically, I'm like, I, I dust, I'm, I vacuum and I mop.
That's all my wife asked me to do.
She does the, you know, the big stuff, right?
Like she, she's kind of on her hands and knees,
cleaning the bathrooms once a week.
And she does all the dusting of everywhere.
I just have to dust my, this little room right here,
this man cave, my podcasting room.
And I hate it because, you know, when you're dusting like books and stuff,
there's all that, you know, there's so, so many little nooks and crannies
and little, you know, spaces that you have to try to get into.
And so, you know, sometimes I'm, I do a good job.
Sometimes I'm a little lazy with that.
Vacuuming, I don't mind doing it that much.
I think vacuuming is, is okay.
Although I have been trying to, you know,
pitch the idea to my wife that we should get a roomba.
You know, like a, like a, like a, like a, a robot vacuum cleaner.
But she's not, she's, she's skeptical because of her plants.
She doesn't want it to like knock over her plants, you know,
while it's cruising around or whatever.
So, so I'm stuck doing that.
The one that I hate the most is taking out the trash.
I hate it.
So, I'll let it pile up, like to a ridiculous level,
where it's like, it's like a, it's like a mountain of, of like boxes,
kind of tearing.
And then finally, I'll be like, all right, it's time to go.
And the reason I don't like it is because we live on the third, third floor of a walkup.
And then I have to walk over to the recycling garbage area,
which is like maybe, oh, I don't know.
I don't know, 100 meters, you know, away from my front door.
And I just like, in the winter, it's freezing cold in the summer.
It's hot, you know, so I just, I just don't like it.
I just really hate that.
I'll say for lizards who don't know separating trash in Korea is like very difficult.
So they recycle everything.
It's like even food.
Food garbage.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah, the food garbage goes to like pits or something, I believe, right?
Yeah, they make some kind of,
yes, some kind of food, like a dry food,
after they dry it out and stuff, they feed it to pigs.
Oh, they're like dehydrating it.
Oh, yeah, they dehydrated.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
So,
oh, well, anyway, it, so there's certain things you can't put in your food trash, like
bones, eggshells and like that because obviously that could hurt the pigs.
So, yeah, it is a pain.
I put everything in there that I shouldn't.
Yes, you did.
Did you not know about this?
I didn't know about that.
I put eggshells and coffee grounds and everything in there.
I think, I think coffee grounds might be okay.
You have to look into it.
But you're not supposed to put, you're like shocked that you were just now hearing
you know, I thought pigs could eat eggshells.
No problem.
I mean, just like, I think it's because they dehydrated that probably like
becomes sharp or something.
I don't know.
I think you're not supposed to put eggshells check, check.
You're also not supposed to put bones in there.
So, just double check though.
You've been living there long for me, so you don't double check.
But I remember when I got there that people told me I wasn't supposed to do that.
So, then I didn't, but it was a pain.
I would kind of just not do the food trash.
I would kind of just put my food trash in the normal trash.
Yeah, yeah.
You just throw it away.
You can make it too complicated and it's too much trouble.
People just won't do it.
So, I know.
Yeah, it's a lot.
Yeah.
What is one chore that you really like doing?
A chore that I like doing.
Oh, that's a good question.
I'm not sure there is one.
I think, you know, vacuuming is because I still, I can put my hair,
my ear buds in and usually I listen to our podcast episodes while I'm vacuuming.
So, I'll just listen to a podcast and vacuum.
It's just like, sometimes I'll do like, I love Lucy.
I'll dance a little bit with the vacuum cleaner and kind of like it's a dancing partner or something.
If no one's home, if my wife's home, I won't do that.
But yeah, make it fun if I can.
But yeah, vacuuming is no big deal.
It's easy.
Yeah.
I like vacuuming as well.
And it's trying to think, I think that's probably the one that I like the most.
I kind of like scrubbing floors.
I find it satisfying.
You do.
When the like white line and the, when the the grout changes,
like dark to light or something.
Yeah, you're like in there with elbow grease really scrubbing.
I got your floors.
I actually like doing that.
I find it satisfying.
I see with sweeping and mopping, I don't see that much of an immediate difference.
So I don't like it that much.
But I really like scrubbing things kind of.
I find it like satisfying.
Are you an 80% or 100% or what I mean by that is like,
some people clean to like about 80%.
You know, they're like, it's just good enough.
Like, this is fine.
You know, like if the company came over,
they wouldn't be like, oh, you're such a pig, you know.
But then there are other people that are like 100%.
And so I think the problem that my wife and my wife is 100%
or and I'm an 80% or so there's like that's a point of contention for us where
I'm like, I did it already.
Just like do it again the right way.
You know, that kind of stuff.
It's really fully.
Yeah.
I kind of,
I'm 100% but I don't clean all the time.
But when it gets dirty,
if I'm going to clean it, I want it to be sparkling.
You know what I mean?
So you're like, you're like, I can let it go.
But then one day you just roll up your sleeves and you're like,
it's time to go to work.
Yes.
Like an Avenger or something, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, I definitely am kind of like that.
And I don't like it.
It's like, if someone else cleans and it's still dirty,
it, that drives my wife crazy.
That drives me crazy too.
That really does.
I hate it like when the floor is like,
no one really scrub them.
They just kind of swept and mopped a little bit.
And it's still like you walk across Barrapa
and your feet are like gray after that.
It makes me very angry.
So I'm sure that I scrub, I just, I'd rather scrub it.
And then mopped it several times.
But I just, it has to be clean, you know,
with a clean, a clean, a clean,
it has to be clean enough for me to eat off of, basically.
But when people clean your house,
they're going to do it half-heartedly, you know?
That's a good expression there.
Half-heartedly means like a small, low effort, you know?
Yeah.
Because it's not theirs, you know?
So.
It's not their house, so we care.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, tell us, listeners,
what is your least favorite chore
and your favorite chore if you like any chores?
And what are you usually responsible for in your home?
I'm really curious to know.
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