On top of the chores hierarchy, i’d rank “Take the chicken out of the freezer” and “Clean your room” as 1-2. A mother in Maryland took “take out the trash” to the next level. Connor Cox, a college student in Pennsylvania, received two packages from his mother at school. Everything was cool until he opened them up.
One big box was full of Pringles, gushers, like anything that you could think of. The other one was a box full of trash, I was digging through it. I didn’t think it was real. I was like ‘what is this?’ and I realized it was trash and then I gave her a call. I said Did you send me the wrong package? Why did you send me this. She said, no, that’s the trash you were supposed to take out
He knew he messed, and would go on to say he took it in stride.
We laughed about it, I left my house to come back to school and I didn’t take my trash out. I was kind of in a rush. That was her way of saying ‘you need to take your trash out when you’re home. If I’m paying for your tuition than you have to do some chores around the house, which is totally true.
Cliff notes: son forgets to take out trash, mother decides to fill up a box with trash, address it to her son in college, throw a couple stamps on and and mail it. That is a new standard of pettiness.