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People who just want to help are the biggest hindrance of all in my kitchen People who just want to help are the biggest hindrance of all in my kitchen
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They kindly load the dishwasher with They kindly load the dishwasher with things you’ll need long before you mean to run it; they put back kitchen implements in odd places and lay the table all wrong; some of them even try without asking to make a sauce or slice a vegetable.
things you’ll need long before you mean to run it; they put back They pride themselves on doing things you may not have intended at all, but you have to seem to be pleased –you’re an ungrateful cross-patch if you don’t. Maybe it doesn’t entail much extra work, but the reason it’s so irritating is their assumption that they know as well as you do what needs doing next; or the scarcely less irritating assumption that all women run their kitchens, or indeed their households, in the same way.
kitchen implements in odd places and lay the table all wrong; some of The woman who knows you can take the covering off a duvet but not that you use yours for an eiderdown and never do; the man who lights a fire when you don’t have enough coal to last or the girl who cooked a lovely surprise for you with the last half bottle of a really good wine all mean well; I just wish they would be a bit less noble.
them even try without asking to make a sauce or slice a vegetable. It was CS Lewis who wrote in the Screwtape Letters: “She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
They pride themselves on doing things
you may not have intended at all, but you have to seem to be pleased
–you’re an ungrateful cross-patch if you don’t. Maybe it
doesn’t entail much extra work, but the reason it’s so irritating
is their assumption that they know as well as you do what needs doing
next; or the scarcely less irritating assumption that all women run
their kitchens, or indeed their households, in the same way.
The woman who knows you can take the
covering off a duvet but not that you use yours for an eiderdown and
never do; the man who lights a fire when you don’t have enough coal
to last or the girl who cooked a lovely surprise for you with the
last half bottle of a really good wine all mean well; I just wish
they would be a bit less noble.
It was CS Lewis who wrote in the
Screwtape Letters: “She's the sort of woman who lives for others -
you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”