#also i rent so if my garbage disposal broke my landlord would have to fix it

[fillejondrette]

my mother again encouraging me to "be open" to relationships now that i've finished school because it's so much easier to live in a 2 person household. her example for this was that her garbage disposal recently broke and she had to try to fix it by herself. it's funny bc she's careful to use gender-neutral language in these conversations and i'm pretty sure i've told her i don't ever anticipate dating a man again so i guess in her mind every relationship contains one person who knows how garbage disposals work and one who doesn't