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JoeSpareBedroom

"Peter A" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> says...
>> "Matt" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Default User wrote:
>> >
>> >> I was watching the Julia Child DVDs, one show was on "french fries".
>> >> In
>> >> the requisite lecture on safety, Julia told us that when deep frying
>> >> not to have children or "a bunch of kooks and weirdos" running around
>> >> the kitchen while doing it.
>> >
>> > I expect that Julia Childs was referring to anybody who might walk past
>> > the stove and start lecturing about the health dangers of deep-fried
>> > foods.
>>
>> Or, people who have ZERO awareness of the traffic pattern in a busy
>> kitchen,
>> and are constantly between you and the two work places you've moved
>> between
>> 300 times while they completely failed to notice.
>
> If you always move between the 2 work places with your 10" chef's knife
> in front of you, they'll notice!
> Peter Aitken

Yeah...I'm finding that works nicely. They think it's entertaining until I
give them The Look, with knife in hand. One person in particular has
banished herself from the kitchen completely when I'm in what's known as
"locomotive mode".