
she has this tendency to sort of hover at my elbow through out the cooking. i've explained several times at high volume that she should just go and watch tv but every time she's back. it doesn't help that she's better at cooking than me anyway
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Mon 19 May 2008, 17:44,
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I've been using the 'grumpy bastard' technique to get her to understand I'm fine doing it on my own.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 17:48,
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"can i help?"
"yeah, that'd be great actually, can you clean that casarole dish thats been sitting there for a month slowly evolving rudimentary sentience?"
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Mon 19 May 2008, 17:52,
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"yeah, that'd be great actually, can you clean that casarole dish thats been sitting there for a month slowly evolving rudimentary sentience?"