Everybody's got chores to do. Whether you've got to take out the trash before your wife gets home from work or your clubmates have to help clear the leaves off the campus square before the end of the week, you've got shit to get done.

Pick a chore and a scenario, and if you need to, reference the relationships list. Have fun. It's that easy.

This meme is comedy-focused, but part of the fun of furniture building is frustration, argument, and conflict. Listing what you're interested in will help in this meme. Make sure to let people know if you're not interested in actual arguments and want to keep it lighter/lower-key.

Chores

1. Building Furniture: The standard option. You've got a box, and apparently all the pieces in it are going to become a chair, or a table, or a desk, or a TV stand. DIY furniture is supposed to be easy, right?


2. Yardwork: It's time to go outside! There are weeds to be weeded, lawn stones to be placed, grass to be trimmed, lemonades to be sipped by supervisors... Uh, hard work to be done! It's time to get your hands dirty and get to planting, or whatever else you're planning on doing out there.


3. Sanitization: Whether it's the kitchen or the bathroom, it's important to get these areas as clean as possible. You'll probably have to deal with chemicals here, unless you're an all-natural type. Use some elbow grease to dig in and get out that stain from underneath the toilet that's been there since you moved in. It'll DEFINITELY work.


4. Food Service: Maybe you're meal prepping, maybe you're a home chef, or maybe you're just cooking dinner with a sibling to impress mom and dad. This is the prompt for getting dinner ready. Maybe try not to burn anything?


5. DIY Construction: Look, the Instructables article clearly shows it's possible to install a glass block divider wall without hiring a professional. Or maybe you're the professional? Oh boy.


6. The Other Stuff: There's a million things I haven't mentioned. Is it your turn to paint the roses red? Are you and your classmate on schedule to raise the flag in the morning? Is your life a series of side quests that involve you retrieving consumable drops from monsters and exchanging them for other goods? Are you charged with the task of lighting several lamps up and down the mountain every day to quell the anger of an ancient god and guide wayward spirits home? Well, you'd better hop to it.

Woes

1. The Wrong Manual: You've got every piece. You've got all the tools, clearly labelled. But the furniture in your manual has pieces that look nothing like what you've got! Yeah, yeah, you're supposed to call in for help— but do you really have time for that??


2. The Marriage Ender: You've got your tools. You've got the right instructions. You've even got a pair of coffees to keep you going. But this is Fantasy Ikea's toughest model. It's been known to send happy newlyweds packing. Can you defeat the legendary Hardest DIY Furniture, or will tonight end with someone on the also-unfinished couch? If it's not furniture, then it's still the hardest version of what you've done; maybe you got the pro version instead of the domestic model, but whatever it is, you're in way over your head.


3. Missing Tools: You were supposed to have a screw driver already! Allen wrenches only fit into certain connectors. What do you mean, you don't have a screw driver? Who doesn't have a screw driver? You'd better hope you've got something, or you're shit out of luck.


4. Customization Hell: You or your thread partner CANNOT just do this chore the way it came out the box. Maybe you have to paint the furniture your favorite color. Maybe you insist not on raking leaves but on using your professor's super fancy Leafblower 9000. Maybe you MUST tetris the dishes away perfectly in your display cabinets. Maybe you're a PC gamer and you're not just going to have some out-the-box build. Or perhaps it's the dreaded... DIY hack. Whatever it is, this chore isn't getting done the traditional way.


5. Game Show Option: You're not building this for your home at all! You and your partner are on a game show— which means you've got a time limit. Whether the penalty is a loss of funds or in more extreme cases, loss of life or limb— well, you'd just better hope your partner isn't too mad at you if that chair doesn't look like a chair before the buzzer goes off.


6. Wildcard: You think these are the only ways you'd end up building furniture together? Hell nah! Go chase your goofy bliss. Maybe you're actually very successful and good at building furniture. Maybe you're a really good conman and find a way to get your handyman partner to do all the steps. The possibilities are endless.

Relationships

1. Strangers: Your first time meeting is as partners on this task, or you've only met recently and don't know much about each other. Hopefully you have the chemistry to make it through!


2. Buds: You've been partnered up with a pal! You might not be soulmates, but you work together well enough. That, or you're at least in the same class, sector, team, or unit: you're at least used to the idea you're supposed to work together.


3. Roommates: This is your real test of whether or not you can live together. Shared chores can make or break a household, but that fridge MUST get cleaned!


4. Lovers: Domestic bliss is being able to work together, right? So you should have no problem working together as lovers, right? Unless you're still in that weird stage just before or after deciding to date where you're just not sure if things are going to work out. Hey, there's always a chance you'll end up the perfect team!


5. Enemies: You would NEVER work with this person otherwise... but you have to. The powers that be dictate it. It's time to swallow your pride and work toward a common goal... or to sabotage your partner, no big.