Topic Talk | Which chores do you hate and which ones don't you mind?
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about which chores they hate and which ones they don't mind.
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Jack
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Jack
Welcome to the agency 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?
Jack
Do you usually help?
Jack
With and which ones do you enjoy and which ones?
Jack
Do you hate?
Xochitl
Ohh well Jack, I live alone.
Jack
So you do.
Xochitl
I.
Xochitl
Yeah, I mean, I did and find out what. 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.
Jack
Swear none of them. I don't know. It depends on.
Jack
How you live, yeah.
Jack
Yeah.
Xochitl
Her father got ill and I totally get that. So I've been handling them on my own.
Jack
MHM.
Xochitl
And and.
Xochitl
I like cooking. Uh, if there's other people around like I hate cooking just myself.
Jack
Yeah, me too. I hate like it's still. There's nothing lonelier than frying. Like one egg, you know?
Jack
What I mean, it's just like what's?
Xochitl
Oh my God. Wow. We're like.
Jack
What's wrong with my life? You.
Jack
Know when you yeah.
Xochitl
I know it's just and we have no one to eat with and it's like just different thing. So if I'm alone, a lot of the times, they'll just end up ordering food like Uber eats or whatever. And but if there's even just one other person with me, I'm happy to cook.
Jack
Yeah.
Jack
Oh, nice, yeah.
Xochitl
Other chores that I do like wash the dishes, do my laundry.
Xochitl
Ah, sweep mop.
Jack
Is is there one that like, really irks you? That just drives you crazy, that you really hate.
Xochitl
I don't.
Xochitl
OK, I don't like sleeping and mopping because it makes my back hurt, which is like weird, but I don't know why, but my back really hurts. Whenever I like sweep and mop, so I don't like that. I don't like getting.
Jack
Ah.
Xochitl
Even though I don't mind sleeping in mopping, it's just the fact that my back always hurts. It like really annoys me and I don't like. Yeah, I don't like.
Jack
It's yeah.
Xochitl
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.
Xochitl
Just the nasty food on it. Or like other people's mouths. It not it, grosses me.
Jack
It reminds me of the like Reddit thread like kids are.
Jack
Freaking stupid, you know, like a kid like kid kids are like, oh, man, I wish I were old enough to mature enough to wash the dishes, you know? And they kind of trick you into doing it, you know? Yeah.
Xochitl
Alright.
Xochitl
I know. And you think it's fun and then you're like, you become an adult and you have to do the dishes every day. And the kitchen is never clean. And every time you cook something, the kitchen is dirty again. And then it just makes me want to eat out all the time because then I don't have to do dishes. I don't have to clean my kitchen. I just, like, eat out of container.
Jack
Yeah, and and eating out is not not expensive in in Mexico, in Oaxaca, right? Yeah.
Xochitl
No, it it's not too expensive. You can get a full meal for like.
Xochitl
Three to four bucks probably like you. You can get what they call, which is like the big meal today, and you get, like, a a fresh water that, like, has a fruit flavor usually and a whole meal. And then sometimes they give you, like, dessert and you get, like, the main.
Jack
Wow.
Xochitl
Fish and two side dishes. And that's like 3 or $4.00. So at that point, it's like, I don't really want to.
Xochitl
Cook so.
Jack
So $3 in Korea will buy you like.
Xochitl
They won't even buy you.
Xochitl
Coffee man like I remember.
Jack
You won't even buy you a coffee. I mean, maybe you could. Maybe you could get the cup, but there won't be anything in it, you know, for the three dollars. Yeah.
Xochitl
No, I never heard.
Xochitl
Yeah.
Xochitl
Yeah, but, Jack, what are the ones that you hate to do? And what which ones do you do in general and which is?
Jack
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.
Jack
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.
Jack
Like books and stuff, there's all the you know.
Jack
There's so so.
Jack
Many little nooks and crannies and little, you know, spaces that you have to try to get into.
Jack
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 that much. I think vacuuming is is is OK, although I have been trying to, you know, pitch the idea to my wife that we should get.
Jack
A Roomba, you know, like a like a. Yeah, 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. Whatever.
Xochitl
Ohh that's the good idea.
Jack
So.
Jack
So I'm stuck doing that. The one that I hate the most is taking out the trash.
Jack
I hate it.
Jack
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 teetering. And then finally I'll be like, alright, I it's time to go. And the reason I don't like it is because we live on the third, third floor of a walk up and then I have to walk over to the recycling.
Jack
Garbage area which is like.
Jack
Maybe. Uh oh, I don't know.
Jack
I don't know 100 meters, you know, away from my my front door and.
Jack
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. So, you know.
Xochitl
Yeah.
Xochitl
Also, for listeners who don't know, separating trash in Korea is like very difficult. So.
Jack
They recycle everything, you know, even food, food, garbage. It's crazy.
Xochitl
I it's like, yeah. And yeah, yeah.
Xochitl
Yeah, the food garbage goes to like pigs or something, I believe, right?
Jack
Yeah, they make some kind of.
Jack
Yeah, some some kind.
Jack
Of food like the dry food after they dry it out and stuff they they feed.
Jack
It to pigs, yeah.
Xochitl
Oh, they like dehydrating it. Oh.
Jack
Yeah, they dehydrate it. Yeah, yeah.
Xochitl
Oh cool so.
Jack
Yeah.
Xochitl
Huh. Well, anyway it so there's certain things you can't put in your food. Trash like bones, egg shells, things like that, because obviously that could hurt the pigs, so.
Xochitl
Yeah, it is a pain, but.
Jack
I put everything in there that I shouldn't.
Xochitl
That you did. Did you not know about this?
Jack
I didn't know about that. I I put egg cells and coffee grounds and everything in there. Yeah, yeah.
Xochitl
No
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