Inadequate

I found out today how totally inadequate I am. I told my friend about the sad cupcakes and she said she's never seen a cupcake do that. So along with taking 8 years to graduate (bachelor's not PhD) I now am the only grown woman to utterly destroy a batch of cupcakes and should be a Dr. by this point. By the time I get my PhD (better only be 5 more years) then I better be able to make cupcakes that don't both sink and crumble, cookies without burning them, and sew a button on my damn coat. Who teaches all of these mom things anyway? And why won't the blasted drycleaner's hand-wash my sweater? I thought it was a normal request... I said "This is hand-wash only, can you take care of it?" They answered slowly, which I now realize is because they were surprised at the question, "We can dryclean it." I said, "It says to not dryclean it." They told me I would have to do this myself. This is a sad sad world when a company specializing in clothing care cannot hand-wash my cardigan. Or perhaps I should have taken a different lesson away from this experience...