For those who took home economics, what are the first things you made?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

23. My wife wishes that she had been taught to use hand tools.

And my parents did teach me how to cook. I remember my father saying "Some times, you will find yourself with raw meat and raw vegetables, and you had better know what to do with them if you want to eat."

My real objection to the choral singing class was that we sang the same four songs, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Stout-Hearted Men" and some other WWI song that escapes me. Just four songs over and over and over and over and over ..." I'm also a very bad singer -- my wife, in a line she blatantly stole from Leo Kottke, says that my singing is "like goose farts on a muggy day."