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June 6, 2007
One Day, They Want to Direct the Military
I took an afternoon trip to Animal Control yesterday (will explain in another post). I knew I would be back too late to get dinner started, but I also knew that I had at least three capable teen/pre-teen types in my home.
So I called said capable children, and gave directions to the one who answered the phone: "I want you to get out five potatoes. Not the sweet potatoes, the regular ones. Wash them. Chop them up into big pieces. Put them in a pot, with just enough water to cover them up. Then put them on the stove to cook.
Also, go to the freezer, and get out a pound of ground beef. I'll make Shepherd's Pie."
Simple, right?
I called back 15 minutes later, to see how preparations were coming along. "How's it going, son?"
"Oh, fine, Mom! The poatoes are on the stove, heating up."
"Great! How did the chopping go? Did anyone lose a finger?"
"Uh ... we were supposed to chop them?"
So I reiterated the instructions. "Yes, chop them," and "Did you find the ground beef?"
He assured me that everything else was fine.
Fifteen minutes later, I was home. And in the kitchen I found, cooking away on the stove, a HUGE pot full of ... can you guess? Chopped sweet potatoes. And a pound of whitefish. Which was even labeled with a picture of a fish, for those not quite literate.
We didn't exactly have Shepherd's Pie.
Posted by lynx at June 6, 2007 10:34 AM
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But the sweet potatoes were delicious, and I am a big fan of pork chops.
Posted by: Jeff Medcalf at June 6, 2007 4:49 PM
Heh. Around here, it's the days when I give them a list of instructions to follow that I'm least sure of their abilities to survive on their own. :}
Posted by: KathyJo at June 7, 2007 11:30 AM
LOL!
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at June 8, 2007 10:26 AM