Soak your dress shirts during the week; use this much soap and this much water; no, not this much, this much; just learn to use your common sense, okay; but I’m trying to use my--; while it’s soaking, scrub the collar; you mean like this?; hard, harder, here, give me that; don’t iron your dress clothes on Sunday morning; have your clean shirt ironed ahead of time; don’t wear that suit jacket, it makes you look like an old man; why do you always like wearing these heavy clothes on Sunday?; always gargle the toothpaste in your mouth for a few minutes before you spit it out; always wear a belt when you are going out; why do you always wear jeans?; I know why; it’s because you want to look like one of those bums on the street that you’re so intent on becoming like; you are eating cereal for breakfast again?; don’t you feel ashamed that you don’t know how to cook?; here, make some pancakes for breakfast today; but I already poured the milk in the cere--; here’s the flour; lower the stove fire; more flour; less lumps; less flour; never leave the stove while your food is cooking!; is that how you flip your pancake?; you mean to tell me that you learned nothing from the last time I taught you this?; leave the food out to cool before you eat it; what do you mean can you eat the pancakes later?; why did you make it if you didn’t want it now?; I hate wasting food, you know; don’t leave the fridge open!; yeah, I’m just getting some juice; why don’t you drink the orange juice in the morning?; okay; save the other juice for later but the orange juice is for the morning; got it; are you being fresh?; no; I paid for the juice with my money, okay?; come go to the store with me; uh, okay, can I finish my breakfast first?; go just how you are, you don’t have to get changed; wear something light, it’s summertime; don’t dress like an old man; no, no jeans; park away from those boys; I’m always careful when I see a group of boys together like that because they always have something in mind; that’s why I’m always giving you advice so you don’t end up like those bums there; Come inside the market with me; I take you shopping with me so that tomorrow, when you have your wife, you know how to go shopping with her; always take extra plastic bags, you never know when you might need them; I’m giving you all these little tips so you won’t end up like a troublemaker on the street tomorrow; this is how you set the table; this is how you wash the dishes; this is how to dry the dishes; this is how you talk to your elders; this is how you talk to important people; this is how you talk to equals; here’s how to avoid those that are beneath you; this is how you shop with women; this is how you look for bargains; this is how you make sure your fruit is ripe; this is how you weigh your fruit; this way you’ll know how to be patient with your wife tomorrow; remember that girl that I said I like for you?; Uh; I like her for you, okay?; Uhm; this is how to fry eggs; this is how to cook spaghetti; this is how to prepare diri jon jon; this is how to do patat fris; this is how to make griot; you never know where you’ll be tomorrow so you better not forget how to make these; are you saying that you don’t mind me going to school out of state?; so you mean to tell me that after all you are really going to leave me to go out of state?