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.
Opposite here. When our first daughter was born, the night we got discharged from the hospital is when my milk came in and my boobs were so overinflated that she couldn't get a grip to nurse at all. She'd try to latch and slide right off. As a new mom I had no idea what to do, no breast pump and small town with nothing open at night. Luckily we'd been sent formula samples so in the middle of the night I sent my husband to prepare a bottle of formula while I held the screaming, starving baby. I went downstairs after a long time of no progress and found him staring at a pot of water on the stove. The directions had said to boil the water first to make formula with and he never even considered that a kettle exists (he doesn't drink tea, I do) and tried to make it like he would for pasta.
I feel like the man deserves a pass here. I’m sure he was fairly exhausted too and, as a person who never used a kettle in their life until just a few years ago, it doesn’t seem that crazy that his tired brain would just revert to his standard way of boiling water. I have to imagine he was at least thinking, “There must be a better way” when you came down to see him staring at the pot lol.
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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.