Posted by: isparku | July 24, 2008

Top 10 Acts of Mischief to get a fuming mom! # 07

Offer to Cook! Simple as that. Follow steps below:

1) Decide that you are going to do it! (Self – conviction is very important)
2) Convince mom about your culinary expertise. (Use some bait. Pronounce names that sound exquisite. Dal makhni, Kachori, Paneer butter masala etc, This always works. Highlight advantages. “Take some rest for today at least”)
3) Now decide what you are gonna cook. (Dal makhni, Kachori, Paneer butter masala etc, all that was just bait)
4) Announce final decision on the dish ( An uneasy approval with ‘Where-is-all-that-stuff-which-you-promised-look’.By now she has convinced herself of her ‘rest day’. So that is why the change in menu doesn’t affect her. Rather she doesn’t make it affect her.)
5)Start ‘creating’. In fact act as the head chef. (‘Rest day’ was not ‘rest-all-day-long’ she realises!. Get her to cut vegetables, do all the dirty jobs like grinding, blending etc.,) You do an a la bachelor hosting a glamorous cookery show with neatly cut vegetables and ingredients on display.
6)You have got just the name of the dish from the internet. Use imagination for creation. ( Like the ‘orange juice to fresh onions’ combination)
7)In the end you get a smelly sticky stuff which surprisingly everybody seems to like(if they are good actors) which even you accept with difficulty, is nice.

The main part is, of course, A storm ravaged kitchen. Dishes lying scattered. The stove a mess. The new kitchen cloth with a stealthy streak of masala on it tossed into its place, innocently claiming to be clean. The onion skin hidden into the nooks to be found a week later (rotten of course!). Tomato seeds all over. Potato pieces (that accidentally fell during the ’storm’) and got mashed under your foot. A thousand flies buzzing over (They usually find out about the mess, second. Mom finds out first). The brigade of ants appearing out of nowhere. The unbearable stink of the disaster created. And the cleaning which resumes for two days afterward (by mom of course!)

To blow off the steam you have to jus pop this question : “Need help cleaning?”


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