He's not good at it, but he will do it. Sometimes he can help clear the dishes from the table, scrape the dishes off, and get them into the dishwasher.

You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't.

in detail ... what it would take to get them back to the bargaining table. I made it clear that everyone involved must show greater flexibility and a willingness to compromise.

simply not on the table.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

[A bookish child, she used to read at the dinner table, something that was not discouraged. She was a good student, got into Stanford University, where she met Joseph Brodsky.] He did the best thing a poet could ever do, ... He gave me a reading list.