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.