A couple of days ago, while eating out, the man suddenly turned nostalgic. Referring to a dish he was served, he lamented that I no longer cook that for him anymore.
“My wife used to cook this for me but now…” then proceeded to sigh aloud and shook his head.
He was reminiscing about a period of our lives when I was a stay-at-home-waiting-for-delivery-wife. I had nothing better to do so my role then was to cook so that he could come home to a piping hot meal of dinner.
He probably thought he had me there with that remark but little did he expect me to retort with this.
“Oh ya? My husband used to deshell prawns for me. But now, I have to deshell them for him instead!” I answered matter-of-factly, but not wiping out the smirk on my face.
THAT promptly shut him up.
Ha. Who asked him to request for deshelled prawns again during the reunion dinner? Now, it’s on my permanent records.
And the morale of the story? Don’t ever try to reminisce about old times with your partner. Especially NOT lamenting about missing out on some old standards of treatment from him or her. Unless…you’re still living up to those old standards yourself!
lol. too funny
Comment by Irene — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 @ 2:46 pm
Good one! Also makes me hunger for prawns (shelled or deshelled).
Comment by moby — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Good tip..!
Comment by Mama BoK — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 @ 5:17 pm
Here we go with the deshelling of prawns again. Good advise though.
Comment by honeyville — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 @ 8:47 am
heh this is funny! hubs is always deshelling for me but now that I am pregnant, I stayed away from prawns because I just do not fancy them anymore! So lucky him!
Comment by msfairface — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 @ 2:29 pm
More so when women have the memory of an elephant..
Comment by zara's mama — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 @ 9:06 am