What a Winner...
I've tried to keep this blog light and humorous and fairly un-complainy thus far; however if I'm really going to give you an accurate portrayal of how it is living with a boy, I'm going to have to complain every once and a while. Tonight's gripe is about something that JP has done pretty much since the beginning of time that just makes my skin crawl: leaving food/dishes on the table for hours (days at times!) after a meal!!!! Since moving in together full time, we've really started to make an effort to cook dinner every week night and sit down at the table for a meal. This is a really nice tradition and it sort of makes me feel like an adult and not some slovenly college student.
Typical "Slovenly College Student"...love you Tom, this picture was too good not to use!
We generally sit down together, say grace, have a somewhat healthy meal, and sometimes even a nice conversation. After we're both full though, the awkwardness begins! Here's a sample of a typical after dinner conversation:
JP: Are you done?
Jill: Yeah, I've been done eating for 15 minutes now. What should we do with all this left over food [because we always ALWAYS make too much food...neither of us has mastered the art of cooking for two], I can't eat any more of it.
JP proceeds to eat more of the leftover food until he literally goes into a food coma at the table.
Jill: This is ridiculous, you're not even hungry!
JP: We will not waste ANYTHING!!!!
Jill: Ok I'll put the dishes in the sink [since JP does most of the cooking, I generally feel obligated to do the dishes], but can you pack up the extra food?
JP: Yeah I'll get to it. Goes into the living room or office and occupies himself with something else.
An Hour later...
Jill: JP!!! Did you put the food away??
JP: Give me just a minute I'm right at the exciting part/killing some zombies/doing something important [but generally not doing something that couldn't wait for 5 minutes]!!!!!!!!!!!
Jill: GROOOOOAAAAAAAN!!!!!!
Around 11:30 when I retire for the evening to the bedroom...
Jill: JP THIS FOOD HAS BEEN SITTING OUT FOR HOURS!!!! Its not even recognizable as food anymore!!!
JP: Its fine...quit yelling
Jill: ummm no its not fine...theres dairy in this and its been sitting out for over 5 hours!
JP: its fine...I just ate like half of it 15 minutes ago.
Jill: ...I'm going to pretend you didn't just tell me that and go to bed now.
The next morning...
The food is still sitting there totally hardened, but definitely picked over and half eaten
Jill:
YES, I could have put the food away myself...I do realize this. Its really one of those "Its the principle of the thing" situations though! Maybe he'll learn to properly store food someday...until then I just hope he will continue to cook. He is very good at that...
See... JP does these things because to him, it is 1000x better than what his roommate (not Joe, me - the awesome roommate) would do.
ReplyDeleteA typical example would involve ordering an entire Dominoes pie for myself with toppings that no one else would want (Sausage, Bacon, and Banana Peppers... you have not lived until you have had this combo) and leaving it out for two days without putting it away, and then microwaving the rest of the pie 48 hours later and consuming it.
See... the microwaves kill the bad food bacteria, leaving only delicious Dominoes. The crusts are a little hard and teeth-breaky, but overall, still scrumpdiddlyumptious.
I hope this helps put things in to perspective for you, Jillian.
I wonder if boys are missing that component of mitochondrial DNA that causes us (as females) to understand the importance of putting away leftovers. Z has gotten food poisoning on more than one occasion b/c he left food out for too long. Maybe once that happens to JP he'll learn. Although it took Z 3 or 4 times to catch on.
ReplyDeleteThis post does not make it too attractive for future house guests to be intrigued by an invitation to 'come over to hang out'
ReplyDeleteWe're generally good about cleaning up our crazyness (which does include food JP won't put away) before we have people over!!! However, since posting this blog entry JP has been about 1000% better with this habit...I knew this would come in handy at some point ;-)
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