Random Daily Prompt: Plead the Fifth

Daily Prompt: Plead the Fifth.

What question do you hate to be asked and why?

Do have to pick one?  Okay, fine.  I will choose.

Here is the one question I most  hate to be asked:   “Your husband must love being married to you, do you cook gourmet meals every night?”

This bugs me for a number of reasons.  First, just because I teach Culinary Arts does NOT mean that I love to cook.  I LIKE to cook, but it is not my passion.  Also, after cooking all day at work the very last thing that I want to do is cook when I get home.  Gourmet cooking is very expensive.  Last time I checked, I worked on a teacher’s salary.  Believe me that is NOT going to put a gourmet meal on the table every night.

The second reason that this bugs me is because it implies that my husband married me because I can cook.  News flash: my husband is a better cook than I am.   He’s Italian.  He learned to cook in a traditional Italian household.  The man has skill.  And truly, he does most of the cooking.

The third reason I hate this question is because I am a mother to a five year old.  If I put a gourmet meal in front of him he would just stare at it.  Nope, most of the time we are eating kid-friendly food.

Just because I teach culinary arts does not mean I am a full time culinarian, so please stop treating me like one.  Okay?  Thanks.

Random thought #1

As a teacher, I have the opportunity to witness many things that just make me go “hmmmm”.  I was told some time ago that I needed to write these things down for the world to see…so here it goes.

I teach culinary arts at a large high school in Colorado.  I never thought that I would witness such a large amount of simple lack of common sense or stupidity.

Last week I was teaching a class, when I needed to use the restroom.  When class was over I was approached by a group of students who told me that while I was in the restroom a young man urinated in one of the drinking glasses, disposed of the urine in the trash can, and put the glass away unwashed.

Upon investigation we learned this was true.

This is only one of many tales from the classroom that I have to share.  I don’t know if anyone will ever read this, but if you’re out there I hope you enjoy my very true stories.