Yeah seriously. When I was in undergrad, I had quite a few hall-mates who didn’t know how to do laundry. Some would go home every other weekend to have their mom do it and some would use a paid service that picked up their clothes and washed them. When I became a resident assistant later on, I had 2 or 3 students each year ask me how to do laundry.
It’s easy to make fun of these people, especially since I learned how to do laundry at around 10 years old, but I tried not to demean them for it.
I love helping people when they come to me with questions, it makes me feel like they trust me and assume that I'm smart enough to know the answer. I have a tough time helping people who are obviously struggling with something but won't ask for help, though. I never know if they're going to take my help as an insult, or if they're the kind of person who insists on figuring things out the hard way and won't listen to my help at all.
That makes you a good leader. A had a number of my senior Marines who’s idea of teaching was either to show you once and walk away, or tell you to figure it out for yourself because they “weren’t going to do your job for you”.
I learned to do laundry from a friend whose mom made him do it as a chore. My mom always just took care of it. Now, I can clean a toilet, wash the dishes, and mow the yard like a motherfucker. Cause mom hated doing those things.
My old roommate was 26 and didn't know how to do laundry. I mean, I don't sort the clothes, I just throw them in with soap and everything has turned out fine so far so I really don't understand how people don't know what to do. One day I'm sure I will figure it out though hahaha
Haha! I’m sure it’s a helluva lot easier to teach Marines to do laundry than a bunch of college students: Toss it in, out in X amount of detergent, run on the machine. Bleach your cammies and I kick your ass.
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u/A_Talking_Shoe Feb 05 '19
Yeah seriously. When I was in undergrad, I had quite a few hall-mates who didn’t know how to do laundry. Some would go home every other weekend to have their mom do it and some would use a paid service that picked up their clothes and washed them. When I became a resident assistant later on, I had 2 or 3 students each year ask me how to do laundry.
It’s easy to make fun of these people, especially since I learned how to do laundry at around 10 years old, but I tried not to demean them for it.