In Which I Have a New Pet Peeve

[kriadydragon]

When someone says they're going to cook dinner and they don't.

And they don't...

And they're still not cooking anything...

Then it's eight o'clock at night and no dinner.

It's not that I'm one of those people who expects dinner to be ready at a certain time or anything. It's that if something comes up and that person isn't able to cook or doesn't want to then it would be nice to know while there's still time to both think of something to cook and cook it. I'd be more than happy to cook if someone else isn't able to or doesn't want to, but there needs to be time and energy to figure out what to put together, make sure you have the needed ingredients to put it together, go and fetch the needed ingredients if we don't and to put it together in time so that we're not eating at ten o'clock at night.

I've also discovered that I can get incredibly irritable when hungry. Really, really irritable.

ETA: I forgot to say that family is staying with us, and that means people who volunteer to cook if they have specific dinner ideas or want something only they know how to make. I'm usually the cook of the house but I've been more than happy to step aside and let others prepare dinner... that is, if they prepare dinner :/

Comments

[karri-kln1671.livejournal.com]

Things like that make me grouchy, as well. I much prefer if people say no to doing something than say yes and then flake. It's so much more of a hassle to sort things out after the thing was supposed to be done than to just expect to do it myself.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's why I tend to be very much a do-it-yourself type. I kind of dislike having to rely on others, sometimes, not because I don't trust them, but because stuff happens and obligations can't always be met. I've been the chef of the house for some time, but we have family staying with us, which means more volunteers to cook. But stuff happens, no on is cooking, and by the time anyone realize dinner isn't happening it's too late to think of something to make and make it. Which wouldn't be a big deal if we can just know ahead of time that someone else needs to cook.