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Help me understand what I did wrong here?
Today my wife and I were fixing our lunch. I was boiling some soft boiled eggs and she wanted hers hard boiled so she took a separate pot and put two eggs in some water and started to boil them. My eggs were in another pot. I walked to the bedroom then a few minutes later I walk into the kitchen to check on my eggs so they don't overcook and when I looked at her pot it was boiling over. Apparently one of her eggs had a crack in it and the whites of the eggs were now cooked and boiling over the pot. I told her in a calm voice, "your eggs are boiling over." She's working from the kitchen and so she turns and looks at the stove and says, "well, what do you want me to do?" I said, "the common sense thing to do would be to get up and come check on your eggs." She got all bent out of shape with me like I was trying to tell her or demanding that she do something. Maybe it's a woman thing where they don't want to be told what to do especially by a man, but I wasn't running around frantic like the house was on fire. I just told her that her eggs were boiling over. I just find it funny that she looked at the stove then said "what do you want me to do? So now I feel like I'm in the dog house because her eggs boiled over. What did I do wrong here?
For those who mentioned it, my wife wasn't working. We both were on lunch. She works from the kitchen. Her woprkstation is on the kitchen table. She was just sitting there watching TV. Had I not walked in when I did it could have been worse. I just pointed out to her that the pot was boiling over.
26 Answers
- keerokLv 71 month ago
What's wrong?
1. You're the guy. That makes you wrong instantly!
2. She's having a bad day. You're not helping.
3. She wanted hard boiled. Easy - set all eggs in the same pot then pull out yours after 6 minutes and hers after 12 minutes. If an egg cracked while cooking, that's automatically yours.
4. So you see, nothing you do makes it right. Just ride it out quietly while pampering her. Nothing else to do.
5. Monthly period?
Source: From a guy still together with the same gal for 31 years.
- 1 month ago
I dont see why the Womam was sitting watching tv and you cooking. That's a womans job. Mostly. In future pull back from that
- 1 month ago
Wow I can’t believe those who claim you did something “wrong”. Why couldn’t this wife answered by saying “thank you for informing me , could you please turn the flame down?”.. At least that’s how I would have answered to your comment . Judging by these people’s answers it shouldn’t surprise us the high rates of divorce and adultery .... I mean , they are ready to start a fight over something so silly .. how disappointing.
- 1 month ago
I had an ex like this, if you had turned the stove off she would have been like "why did you turn it off? now they arent cooked properly!"
- Anonymous1 month ago
Cooking. You should have had your wife cook your food, as that is women's work.
- dripLv 71 month ago
You were right there at the stove. You should have turn down the flame and taken care of it. You were there! Hey I just turned down your eggs.
- Anonymous1 month ago
Your problems within your marriage get more and more trivial. I can't IMAGINE what would happen if you had a REAL problem. My husband, having basic common sense, would have removed the pot with MY eggs (?) from the heat. I am VASTLY amused that you don't put all the eggs in one pot, remove some when they are soft boiled and let the remainder cook to the hard boiled stage. But I guess that's your marriage, not mine.
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And to quote you “@ Foofa [or Patrick] Are you freaking kidding me?” about this trivial issue? https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210...
- SparkyLv 61 month ago
You didn't do anything wrong. She probably would have preferred it if you could have taken control of the situation though.
- Anonymous1 month ago
A more considerate approach might have been to turn the burner down (or off), and then tell her that her eggs were boiling over and that you've turned the flame down.
Did that occur to you as a possibility?
