Housework, if done properly, can kill you

One of my favorite places for years was the kitchen at 22 South Lincoln Avenue in Washington, New Jersey. It wasn't a big modern kitchen. It was a comfortable kitchen with a small table and an old-fashioned farmhouse sink, which I really liked because it was lower than modern sinks so easier to wash dishes in. By the time I spent hours there, the walls had been painted, but I knew under that paint were comments and sayings written by journalists and cops and neighbors and hangers on. Those were the times when reporters and cops would hand out (read: drink) together. Over the table hung a sign that read "Housework, if done properly, can kill you." That sign is now in my kitchen.