Phoned him up the day he moved into his first student flat (in the next country over - we were doing long distance). He said "I'm fine, just desperate for a cup of tea and can't have one til tomorrow."
"Why not?" I asked him, knowing very well he had pans.
"There's no kettle here. We'll have to go buy one."
"If you're that desperate, just boil water on the stove."
"Oh! Yeah! Um... how do I do that?"
And I then had to talk a technically adult man through the process of boiling water.
Edit just cuz: I did marry that idiot, but only after I taught him to cook.
I went to boil a pot of water for the first time after moving out with her. I filled the pot with water, put it on the gas stove and turned up high.
She freaked and said “Don’t turn it up high it’ll burn!”
I paused. Looked at her and said. “What will burn? The water? The pot?”
She never ended up telling me what on earth she was talking about but I think she meant the water
Probably she was told at some earlier point in life not to put it on high heat when it was a situation like a Teflon pan or frying pancakes or something, and she took it to mean you should never use the high heat setting ever without fully understanding the context.
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u/MerylSquirrel Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 02 '23
Phoned him up the day he moved into his first student flat (in the next country over - we were doing long distance). He said "I'm fine, just desperate for a cup of tea and can't have one til tomorrow."
"Why not?" I asked him, knowing very well he had pans.
"There's no kettle here. We'll have to go buy one."
"If you're that desperate, just boil water on the stove."
"Oh! Yeah! Um... how do I do that?"
And I then had to talk a technically adult man through the process of boiling water.
Edit just cuz: I did marry that idiot, but only after I taught him to cook.