"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
>>
>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On 3/3/2016 11:52 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> >
>> >> Well, Leona was quoting from an article. I watch 'House Hunters' on
>> >> HGTV. Seems like lots of people want the latest greatest kitchens but
>> >> they don't actually use them. (I've got some neighbors like that.)
>> >>
>> >> True, not everyone is a great cook nor do they want to cook. I would
>> >> suggest a different restaurant if I felt it was over budget.
>> >>
>> >> Jill
>> >
>> > Or pick up a bucket of KFC or a bag of burgers. While we enjoy going
>> > to
>> > dinner with friends, we enjoy just spending time with them even more.
>> > They
>> > just have to speak up and with real friends you can do that.
>>
>> I love to cook but I hate doing the dishes. And if you have people
>> staying
>> over, you'll eventually have to do that while they are there. You can
>> only
>> put this off for so long. That cuts into visiting time.
>
> Whatever kind of friends or family don't offer to help in the kitchen
> when they're staying over?
>
> while they're helping cook or wash up you can still socialise.
Ha! Not in *my* kitchen. Only one person will fit comfortably. Get two in
there and it can be a battle. You have to carefully orchestrate things or
one person gets trapped at the stove end, unable to move.
And maybe it is common to help in the kitchen where you are at. I don't
know. My mom hated other people to be in her kitchen so mostly they just
weren't. She did have a nurse friend who always came over at dinner time
and kept insisting on cooking for us. And my mom did let her do this a few
times. But the woman was a horrible cook and everything she made was
inedible. So my mom put her foot down there too.
I know that some people here have cook alongs and such. Something like that
to me would be potential for nightmare. Not something I'd want to do. It's
all a moot point for me anyway. We have a small house and we don't have
people stay over, except for Angela's friends and they all sleep in her
room. We have no extra room or extra beds. And I don't know of anyone who
might come from a ways off to spend the night. This is is something that I
didn't grow up doing either. My parents always preferred staying in a motel
or hotel when we traveled. We did stay at my dad's sisters house. She was
quite wealthy and had tons of extra rooms. And my parents used to make my
brother and I stay with our maternal grandparents while they went to a
motel. So that scenario is not likely to happen.