One afternoon he was invited over to their home for lunch. He went over to see his friend, but when he was offered lunch, which was pork chops and mashed potatoes, he declined and made up that something was wrong with his mouth so he couldn't eat (I think he said either wisdom teeth or a root canal). The fiancé felt bad that they'd be eating in front of my dad and didn't want him to be hungry...so she put the pork chops and mashed potatoes into a blender for him.
What kind of person thinks someone would EVER like a blended up concoction of pork and potatoes!! That's why you gotta go with the excuse of getting over a stomach problem. Few people want to risk you blowing chunks, or destroying the bathroom. And If they do you can still double down on the lie and head to toilet to make them feel bad.That's something Costanza would've done. Torturing himself to avoid telling the truth about something was like half his character.When I was ten, my mother and father got in a fight about the food us kids were eating. My mother had recently started going to work, making more money than my father had previously, and so now my dad was looking after us kids and e was not exactly a gourmet.
George: I'll tell ya what went wrong, Jerry. Everything. Everything went wrong. Sharon cannot cook. I knew she was a lousy cook but I didn't know how lousy until tonight. I figured she would make something edible and decent but no, not tonight! She cooked pork chops and mashed potatoes and as soon as I saw 'em and smelled 'em I knew it was a bad idea. It was too easy! Too easy for George! There's no way that a free meal among friends was going to work out but I just couldn't stay away. That's my fatal flaw, Jerry. When something's too good to be true, I can't say no!
My dad worked a lot and didn't get many full days off. One day he had a day off and spent it making us homemade chicken noodle soup. At the end he added some cornstarch to thicken it, but the cornstarch wouldn't dissolve. It just sat in the soup in big, nasty, starchy lumps. My dad was so upset that he made the soup to show us how much he loves us and it didn't come out right.Hard lesson to learn that everyone seems to learn by making the mistake. Cornstarch has to be mixed with cold water and then added to the hot liquid - I learned this after ruining the entire batch of homemade Thanksgiving gravy.
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