You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.
You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.
It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.