Warning: The following story is gross but caused me to laugh until I cried. So I’m sharing…but if you get grossed out easily, it’s gross. ESPECIALLY if you don’t have pets. Please read with caution and be advised.
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Last week, on a week day I made Macaroni and Cheese for Lunch, Michael’s favorite. We usually can split a box between us. I resort to the mac-n-cheese if the refrigerator is bare. It’s my clue that if I don’t get to the grocery store within a couple of days, we’ll starve. So, we ate our mac-n-cheese until our bellies were full. As usually is the case, our dog sat pathetically at our feet, waiting for handouts. Okay, he begs. Generally, he doesn’t get much in the way of food. Occasionally, we’ll put the dish down and let him lick it clean. And, OF COURSE, we make sure it gets cleaned really well afterward. But often, he’ll get nothing at all.
Now, a Mac-n-cheese lunch will cause me to scramble and scrounge in the recesses of the freezer to answer the question: what on earth can be for dinner? On this particular day, I found a couple salmon fillets to make salmon my favorite way. I was trying to scurry in the kitchen, and prepare the salmon. As a new mom, I was battling with keeping a baby happy as I tried to cook dinner–impossible. Once again, the reality of having no dishwasher hit hard & I found myself with a mountainous stack of dishes to be done and little time to accomplish the cleaning. So, to cut corners, I decided I’d make rice using the pan in which I had made the mac-n-cheese. After all, I’d only used it to cook pasta–it’d just had contained noodles, milk, and butter–nothing that reusing a pan could hurt.
At dinner, I proudly shared with Michael my dish washing saving ways.
Nonchalantly and void of any emotion, Michael asked, “Did you remember that Zippy licked the pan?”
Oops and Ewww, but what could I do? At that very moment, the only thing I could do was to laugh.
