My daughter asked why I always put the hand mixer back in the box but whip the cream with a fork

"Honey," I said, carefully whisking heavy cream in a cereal bowl, "that mixer has seventeen attachments and a manual I've never opened."

She watched me work. "So?"

"So a fork has one attachment, and I already know how it works."

Punchline

"Plus, if I use the mixer, I have to wash the mixer. This way I only have to wash the fork I was going to use anyway."

She sighed. "You're just lazy."

"I prefer 'efficiently undermotivated.'"

The cream turned out lumpy, but at least the mixer stayed pristine in its original packaging, right where it belongs.