to do things right/correctly/the way they are supposed to be
done/ on time the first time round, so as to avoid either having to waste more energy, time, money and/or effort redoing the same
job twice.
Father: listen, Carl. If I'd be your teacher, I would have reacted the exact same way. Just look at your penmanship. Ça laisse à désirer. I can't even ,
lol, call it handwriting, it would probably, immb qualify as
turkey-chicken scrawl. Now the moral of the fable is of course to pay your bills on time. Now, take this travail bâclé afaap out of my sight and rewrite your homework.