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Chores
Psssst! Hey you. Stop doing that and listen up.
We’re about to tell you a very important piece of hIgHlY classified information. All mums and dads, grans and grandads, guardians, whatever – basically
all grown-ups – go to top secret lessons in How to Really Annoy Kids. Don’t even bother asking them about it – they’ll just deny it.
Well, they would, WOuLdN’T tHeY?
Lesson No. 3,527 is Chores. Tidying up, making your bed, emptying wastepaper bins – that kind of stuff. Those little jobs they get you to do at EXAcTlY the point you’re just about to beat the Big Boss on the 593rd level of Space Zombie Weasels 3.
But if you think YoU’vE GoT iT BaD, at least your chores don’t include pulling buckets full of human PoO out of pits. If they do you need to ask for a SeRiOuS raise in your pocket money.
It´s your turn to go into the pit.
Sorry, I´m allergic to tight spaces filled with poo and wee.
One of the WoRsT chores a kid would have done in a medieval castle was being an assistant to a gong farmer.
A gong farmer had nothing to do with those big metal discs that you bong with a stick. That would be much more pleasant. Nope – a gong farmer was a man who was employed to empty the deep pits that toilets emptied into (the ones that didn’t go straight into the castle moat).
When they were full, the gong farmer would swing into action with his stinky little helpers – usually a boy or two who would lift the buckets he filled with the brown stuff or could squeeze into tight pits if they were rEaLlY lucky.
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