On Oct 11, 3:33*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> Steve Pope wrote:
> > Julie Bove > wrote:
>
> >> It freaking drives me nuts when my husband calls while I am making
> >> dinner or just after I have made it to tell me that he won't be home
> >> for dinner. *Of course if he had to work late, I wouldn't be upset.
> >> But that's never the case. *He just decides to go somewhere else on
> >> a whim. *That leaves me with a portion of food that may or may not
> >> be eaten on another day. *And most likely not. *Sometimes he does
> >> this several days in a row and then he blames me for cooking too
> >> much food!
>
> > One approach is to not start cooking until he shows up.
>
> That would never work. *If he is home, he wants his food immediately. *And
> that wouldn't stop him from leaving to go elsewhere to eat.

I'd tell him not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out...