One time on Usenet, Dave Smith > said:

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> When we were much younger we invited some friends and their kids for
> dinner. My wife cooked an orange chicken dish, and when she was taking it
> out of the oven she dropped it and the food was all over the floor. My
> friend, a doctor, said not to panic, the floor was reasonably clean and the
> food was hot, so he scooped everything up and put in on the serving platter
> while delegating me to fill up a pan with cold water for my wife to soak
> her foot in, and his daughter to get a rag and wipe up the floor.
>
> He made my wife soak her food in the cold water though the entire first
> course.

They sound like lovely people, Dave. Good friends are the salt of the
earth...

--
Jani in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same
way that bricks don't" - D. Adams, HGTTG