Noddy24 wrote:Edgar--
Why would she put a kitchen utensil in your tool box?
I, too, live with a handyman with a tool box wrapped around a pint-sized black hole.
This is true, I swear it!
Many years ago my parents came to live with me and my son. The house we bought was in dire need of repair. I was working on the kitchen and had started during the night, stripping the old paint from the window frames, hoping to get this part of the yucky work done before the kitchen would be needed for preparing meals. I had applied the last lot of paint stripper onto the window, and, as dawn was breaking, and realising the smell of the stripper was too strong for food preparation, I grabbed some cardboard and a thick pen and made some signs along the lines of - KEEP OUT - PAINT STRIPPER IN USE - HAVE GONE TO McDONALDS - BACK IN A FLASH - BE PATIENT etc etc (Maccas was only about a block away). I put all my tools in my tool box, and set the signs up in various obvious places, ie, on the stove, in front of the tool box, on the bench, on the fridge door and on the kitchen table.
So off I go, grab some bacon and egg muffins and some hotcakes, so the folks would have a choice and hurried back home.
Too late!
My father, who thought himself a great cook, had decided to fry some eggs to go with whatever I bought from Maccas. He, my mother and my son were seated at the table awaiting my return. I sat down, passed around the goodies I had bought, lecturing him on the trouble I had gone to to avoid the kitchen being used. After the meal, I collected all the plates and took them to the kitchen for washing, where I was horrified to see the egg lifter sitting in the frying pan was in fact, my paint scraper. Always the proverbial bull in a china shop, he had totally ignored my signs, and in his haste to find an egg lifter, had gone to my tool box and grabbed the paint scraper.
um, farmer, you're on vacation and you're supposed to be relaxed and peaceful.
