12-30-2017, 03:30 PM
My house is 1.5 floors, in that the second floor is really an attic but has been adapted for me (and my siblings prior) to live in. Exiting my door, there is a hallway to the right that leads to the bathroom, to the left is a stairwell to the dining room, and further over is a crawlspace where we store decor for Christmas every year.
My parents tell me that I need to put the stuff in there in a singular day, to which I respond with "why." The only justification I get is "because it needs to be done," but I don't honestly see why. We store the containers up in the attic hallway, and this only affects me. My dad almost never comes up due to his bad knees, and my mom rarely has a reason to. In short, I'm the only one who uses that hallway more than 1% of the year. So why does it need to be done after all the Christmas decorations are put in their boxes? Still don't have an answer, but I have to get it done now anyway. Which would be fine, except that this is the worst chore of the year.
I'm over 6 foot tall about now, so naturally the crawlspace is not well suited for my long, lanky legs. However, being the only one limber enough to enter that area easily and safely, the task is still given to me. Alright, fine, I figure I could take a slow, methodical approach, both to save my legs and my sanity; I'll put "X" amount of boxes away today, then X amount tomorrow, then X the next day until they are all put away. They get stored in a timely fashion, I don't feel a need to hate existence for longer than I need, and the only one who it possibly affects is me.
NOPE
Gotta do it in a blunt, brute-force-y way that I don't agree with, all because I have to take orders from parents that don't even need to deal with 20 or so boxes up in the hall. It's not many! It could be done in probably 4 days via an easygoing method that leads to me, the only one actually doing anything about it, enjoying life more in the process. But instead, I have to do it the hard way. There is a time where you need to do something you don't want to do in its entirety within a small time frame, but I feel the time frame here is artificially strict. Yeah, this is a small thing in the grand scheme of annoyances, but it feels like my ideas are heavily disrespected simply because of those ever famous words "because I told you to."
My parents tell me that I need to put the stuff in there in a singular day, to which I respond with "why." The only justification I get is "because it needs to be done," but I don't honestly see why. We store the containers up in the attic hallway, and this only affects me. My dad almost never comes up due to his bad knees, and my mom rarely has a reason to. In short, I'm the only one who uses that hallway more than 1% of the year. So why does it need to be done after all the Christmas decorations are put in their boxes? Still don't have an answer, but I have to get it done now anyway. Which would be fine, except that this is the worst chore of the year.
I'm over 6 foot tall about now, so naturally the crawlspace is not well suited for my long, lanky legs. However, being the only one limber enough to enter that area easily and safely, the task is still given to me. Alright, fine, I figure I could take a slow, methodical approach, both to save my legs and my sanity; I'll put "X" amount of boxes away today, then X amount tomorrow, then X the next day until they are all put away. They get stored in a timely fashion, I don't feel a need to hate existence for longer than I need, and the only one who it possibly affects is me.
NOPE
Gotta do it in a blunt, brute-force-y way that I don't agree with, all because I have to take orders from parents that don't even need to deal with 20 or so boxes up in the hall. It's not many! It could be done in probably 4 days via an easygoing method that leads to me, the only one actually doing anything about it, enjoying life more in the process. But instead, I have to do it the hard way. There is a time where you need to do something you don't want to do in its entirety within a small time frame, but I feel the time frame here is artificially strict. Yeah, this is a small thing in the grand scheme of annoyances, but it feels like my ideas are heavily disrespected simply because of those ever famous words "because I told you to."
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