Cake prepared another delightful meaty meal yesterday. Bisquick Chicken with gravy and rice. I always make fun of the poor boy because in matters of leaving the house and food preperation, he's a bit of a lady.
In other words, he takes a long fucking time.
So after an hour of cleaning the burners and the underburners and who knows what else, the chicken is in the oven, the rice is on the stove, and we're watching the eerily-Democratically-slanted* PBS program that compares Bush and Kerry in their early careers. ("This is the only picture we found of George attending Harvard..")
When suddenly Cake is up and moving in a way that indicates something is a lot wronger than it ought to be.
Have you guys ever heard of a pyrex baking dish exploding into tiny shards of pyrex glass in an oven? Neither had I.
So all the grease from the chicken has fallen to the bottom of the oven and started on fire. The fire is licking the bottom of the now-only-wrapped-in-foil-and-glass-shards chicken, and there's glass all over EVERYTHING. Sweetheart is wondering why God seems to hate him while he uses his already-second-degree-burned-at-work hand to pull the oven rack over to the sink. The fire burns itself out while I stand in the livingroom in my underwear.
(explainations: 1:I can't help but take my clothes off immediately when I get home. If only for a minute. 2:The unspoken-but-clearly-expressed rule is that I'm generally not allowed in his kitchen. It's not personal, it's neuroses based.)
I crept away from his ruined-meal distress, put my shoes and dress and sweater on, dug around for my wallet and scooter keys and sat down on the couch.
We had hamburgers and pasta from Charlies. If the chicken hadn't died an infant death, it would've kicked the burgers asses. Poor Tasty Poison Cake.
*slanted to the extent that all the republican shit is slanted, bad music for W and defiant patriotic music for Kerry and everything. Just not something I see much on TV.
Posted by Sonya at October 13, 2004 09:05 AM("This is the only picture we found of George attending Harvard..")
Then you should check out this one:
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_08_08.html
(It's about half way down the page).
And no, I've never heard of Pyrex going explosive either...
Posted by: KING COMTE I at October 13, 2004 11:01 AMI had a pyrex dish go explosive in my first apt. all over everything. Glass pieces melted the carpet and everything. I had it sitting on the stove and turned the burner under IT on instead of the one over the teakettle. You could say it went GLASS OVER TEAKETTLE!!
but that would be a really bad pun.