Today I am a woman.*
I put in a new vacuum bag without any assistance. Unless you count the 7-year-old that was curiously watching on.
The blessings of living with your parents into your 30s are numerous. You are still living with a family, so you continue to interact with people that are not your peers, help each other out with unscheduled little things, eat traditional meals, save on rent and utilities, watch I Love Lucy with your mom, etc.
The downside of living with your parents into your 30s is that you may never get the opportunity, or have the necessity thrust upon you, to replace the vacuum bag on your own.
Fortunately, we got "Robbie" now at home--one of those robot vacuums that spins its way across the floor unassisted by human hands--and so I took our normal vacuum to school. And because it's Fall and leaves flutter their way in with every traipse of little feet across our classroom floor, the vacuum's belly is gluttonous with debris and needed to be changed out today.
Ask not what your vacuum can do for you but what you can do for your vacuum.
*This phrase reminds me of Buddy Sorrell in The Dick Van Dyke Show when he had his Bar Mitzvah as an adult and turned to his mother and said, "Today I am a man." Coincidentally, if you Google the phrase, you will find websites and books about bat mitzvahs.
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