<div class="bbWrapper">Today my mum asked me to help clean the house.<br />
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Although it was FIVE days after we did an entire spring-clean, I begrudgingly went to do it.<br />
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Was using the cordless vacuum cleaner at the top floor. I pushed the vacuum at a chair hurriedly, and the connector at the dust compartment broke apart!<br />
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Checked it and it seems there was enough force to break two thin screws that were the only ones to hold the compartment and connector together.<br />
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Now I can do two things:<br />
1. Hide the broken vacuum, lie to my mum like a spoiled brat that all work’s done, repair it later<br />
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2. Own up, and offer to repair it, or get a replacement vacuum out of my pocket (won’t be cheap, but that’s that)<br />
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I did the second.<br />
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She turned on me and berated me heavily for ‘showing a complaining attitude while cleaning’ and ‘how she can’t trust me with anything’.<br />
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Look, I help to clean although I don’t like it. Plenty of people do good work with little love for the work…are you saying I must take drugs to go work with a shit-smile?<br />
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And the fact I owned up and offered to mend/replace the vacuum shows I am willing to solve problems and take responsibility. Is that not what you want to see in someone you trust?<br />
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Sure, I may have treated that vacuum roughly…but things don’t last these days.<br />
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The rest of the evening just went as cold as winter.<br />
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But I kept searching for solutions.<br />
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Later, I checked Shopee, and found I could buy a spare part for the same model. For just a hundred bucks. One-tenth the cost of a new vacuum.<br />
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I would not need to buy a new vacuum. I also would not need to attempt to DIY super-glue that part, as it wouldn’t last.<br />
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I suggested it to my mum, and she just remarked, ‘See, I know you’ll always solve things with money’<br />
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I was livid!<br />
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1. This is the first time in my 20+ years of life that a vacuum broke under me.<br />
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2. I took time to check numerous models and shopfronts, and even thought of the spare parts idea instead of blowing cash on a full vacuum model.<br />
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Getting a new connector would allow me to keep the entire vacuum- engine and all.<br />
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3. On solving things with money…does buying online course count? Then I guess I’m guilty of that mum.<br />
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Either my mum is in a bad mood that passes, or she does not appreciate her son’s efforts.<br />
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If she prefers a son who lies and hides bad things from her-instead of being truthful and fixing them up….how the F*ck did she raise me from young?<br />
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I have cousins and friends who just ran away from their problems. Bad grades? Just keep ignoring them. Failed relationship? Just run away from home and college. Busted parents’ car? Just get them to pay for it.<br />
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And here I go fix a vacuum I broke, as best as I can…and I am treated on a similar criminal level.<br />
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Doing chores and mending for your mistakes is a son’s duty that is nothing super, but today I wonder if parents truly appreciate it.<br />
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I estimate that 80% of us Fastlaners here have parents who have something wrong with their attitudes…which says something about how our initial mental struggles to work our Fastlane.<br />
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Very disappointed with my mum, it’s not the first time such shit happened. Very sad state of parenthood these days.</div>
