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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Janet" > wrote in message
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>> "Janet" > wrote in message
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>> > In article >, says...
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>> >> "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.
>
> Absolutely. Tonight one of my neighbours is making dinner for ten of
> us; she's 82. She will do all the cooking and set a pretty table. The
> rest of us will all help her serve and clear away, and before we go home
> we'll wash and dry the dishes (men and women).
>
> 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 love it when anybody else wants to cook in my kitchen :-) especially
> when their food is something new to me. I've had guests teach me to make
> sushi, pasta, Thai cooking, and all sorts of new recipes. If they can't
> cook they can pour drinks.
>
> Ever since they could stand on a chair, our kids and now theirs help in
> the kitchen and it doesn't matter how long it takes or how much mess.
> Even tots can scrub potatoes, pod peas, roll pastry, set the table.
>
>> 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.
>
> Gawd, you'd hate my family, where a single bed isn't considered full
> until there are two adults sardined into it; a double can hold at least
> four kids, some at the top and some at the bottom; all the sofas are
> long enough to sleep on. The overflow sleep on the floor; or bring a
> tent.
>> And I don't know of anyone who
>> might come from a ways off to spend the night.
>
> That's really sad.

Sad? Hardly. I hate overnight guests. I am a night owl. They'd likely
only be a bother to me. You might like it. We all like different things.