Negotiation Pt. II: Welcome to the hovel

OR: You've got issues (Mystery Post #8)

Photo cred: my dad

[This is Pt. II of my three-part crash course on negotiation. Part I is here, and Part III is here.]

When I lived in my terrible house in Oxford (the one where the bathroom roof collapsed on me), my roommates and I devised a chore chart in the hopes that we would prevent our home from becoming a hovel. We split all the chores equally an…