Reading these have livened up my day. My first husband decided to boil some eggs and then went somewhere. He was the kind of person who could open every cabinet door and still not find the drinking glasses, but always left the cupboard doors open. So when he left the eggs on the stove, all the cabinet door were open. Those eggs were everywhere: mixing bowls, cups, glasses.
He was a real winner??!! That episode, and the ice cubes in the paper sack, should have been grounds for divorce, but I didn't have the nerve. After 18 miserable years, he ran off with an elderly widowed grandmother who was collecting social security and left me with everything, bills included. He thought she had money and she thought he had money and I ended up with everything.
Mom was right.