"merryb" > wrote in message

> 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...

Or if he wants his food immediately he can bloody well make himself
dinner out of whatever he finds in the fridge. Jeez, what some people
put up with!

Felice