Common Sense?

isn't.

I have cousins, who are twins, both have become Chefs, but...
The male of the two pulled a great one one day, when he was about 9.

Saturday morning, soccer game later, and it was his turn to bring the hot chocolate for the team.
He decided to help his mom by making the hot chocolate before she got up. He puts the hot chocolate mix and water into the kettle, puts it onto the stove and turns on the burner.

5 minutes later my aunt comes into the kitchen and freaks out at the smoke.

it was an electric kettle.

Chris, my better half, is a very good cook, she enjoys it and I like to eat it. But it wasn't always so when we were first married. We lived in an small apartment. Chris was cooking her excellent spagetti sauce. Since it had to simmer for a long time she wanted to go out shopping.

When when we came back we laughed that someone had burned their dinner. It was us! The pot was a burned mess. Unfortunately it was her mother's family pot, one of those thick aluminum pots that are not made anymore, but perfect for some things. I soaked, boiled, used steel wool, a chisel, etc. to no good effect.

My mother in law was cool about it and we bought another pot for her, but it was a long time before Chris borrowed any other pot or pan from her. :D

You would think that a young woman who was in the National Honor Society in high school and who graduate college with a 3.8 would have a bit more sense. She's a smart girl, but she's a little flaky, too..

Right after receiving a new slo-cooker, I put beans and all the other flavorful goodies in it to simmer while I was at work. Got home 10 hours later to the stinkiest d@mn mess I have ever made. Forgot to soak the beans overnight. Ruined the new slo-cooker, and the house smelled like burnt beans for a week. Ugh.

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My only excuse is that I was 10, and I was being beat on by my older brother. I'm sure I was dain bramaged...

My brother was sitting on me, holding me down, and breaking raw eggs into my hair and rubbing them in. When I finally broke out of the chinese egg torture, I decided to wash the eggs out of my hair.

Yes, you guessed it, I used hot water instead of cold water. I was picking scrambled eggs out of my hair all the rest of the day.

The truth is that I have long feet... The better to break off in your @$$ my dear!

I had a boyfriend in college who had the nerve to tell me that washing dishes among other things was "women's work". By the time I was done with him, he was curled in the floor with his hands protecting his head, begging me to forgive him. That relationship didn't last too long.

ways of the world -- whod have thunk??

geez, lighten up on the poor guy! One would think that you were Mae's sidekick or sumting :^0 :^0

[i](And yes, I do dishes)[/i]

Nothing wrong with friendly harrassment.

:D

:x

But, you scare me :D

Glad I got a girl I am getting to know. She isn't at all violent, and likes that I'm a kind, gentle man.

Guess she better not find out about my swill status lol ]:)

For those of us who don't normally boil milk, what utensil should have been used? Why does boiling milk in a kettle demonstrate a lack of common sense? I get the feeling something in this story isn't getting across the cultural gap.

So that when something goes wrong, at least one crew member will ask for directions.

OK guys, I was razzing everyone, and I really wouldn't hurt any of you. If you were here in person and said that, I might thump you on the back of the head and call you a big dork, but that's as far as I would go unless you really meant it.

I've had someone who really meant this who I worked with. I gave him a verbal slapdown in front of about 10 people that is still legend.

As a single father, I have no choice to be pretty self sufficient. So what happens when I'm almost engaged to my last g/f? I picked out the ring and thought it best we live together for awhile just to see... After 2 weeks I never saw the woman cook or clean again. The only time I got a meal cooked was on my birthday. Wouldn't bother me had she bother to have been the one to clean up afterwards, but yeah that was her "glass of wine time". I also did most of the clothes and cleaning stuff...

Lol...not trying to sound like an a$$, I broke up with her for more important reasons. But just because a guy is housebroken doesn't mean he should do all the work either! Some spoiling and pampering by either side never hurt anyone...from time to time anyway. But under normal circumstances I say a nice 50/50 split is in order.

Just my 2 cents no one asked for. :)

I was arriving back at the airport from a two day survey trip to Seattle. The wife picked me up at the airport and we proceeded home. Upon arrival, opened the door to a smoke filled house, I thought it was a fire. Found a pan on the stove with the burner (gas) on low. The pan had the remains of turkey giblets (neck,heart and liver) she was cooking for the dog but didn't add enough water and left it cook. What a terrible smell. Took hours to get all the smoke out and weeks to get rid of the smell. It had permeated all the clothes and bedding and smelled like burning garbage. Had to wash everything, even the walls and ceiling. My suits and heavy winter stuff had to be dry cleaned. Very expensive mistake.

(Probably because I'm not getting punished for it any more :) ), but not when the kids do it.

"Please take the clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer, THEN TURN ON THE DRYER!"

a firefighter in training putting a bag of microwaveable popcorn in the microwave for 6 minutes and walking away only to come back to a room full of black smoke and another coworker throwing the smoldering popcorn bag out the side door of the building.

Hand him/her Mae's shovel....

Sorry, I had to say that after GSG's comment about dishwashing... I can't stand chauvinistic people.

She brings me a glass of crown royal on ice every once in awhile I'll make sure she gets that spa treatment Saturday, lol.

Ok GSG, you were starting to get a rep, now youve gone and blown it away :0

Gee, you coulda been the 'Mae Jr', but ya just blew it now..

P.S. -- what does GSG stand for?? I have a few thoughts

Great Sex Girl
some sort of drug

Ok, there were more but I cannot post some of them :D

Of course you can use my shovel. But really? You don't need it.

And don't back down! If the whiny ass titty babies can't stand the heat...

*puts on best wildlife show narrator voice*

Notice how the mother protects her cub from the would-be predator...

that is sweet...honestly...

if i ever have daughters, i will protect them too...with a shotgun lol

The few times I have ever really lost my cool where times when I felt my children were being subjected to something they shouldn't.

It wasn't pretty.

i'm the same way about my niece...

but I'm represented by the firm of Hillerich and Bradsby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillerich_&_Bradsby

"Mae may carry the shovel...
but I'm represented by the firm of Hillerich and Bradsby. "

I don't get it?

That's the brand of baseball bat he keeps under his side of the bed..

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Baseball bats and shovels, love it.

That's half the fun!

neither of us is the violent type. We just talk a good game.