Chuckle for the day

So.

As some of you may know, my son is planning to be a teacher, and is currently taking an intro to teaching class in high school. His project for the week was to write up a lesson plan on any subject, so he decided to make homemade ice cream.

Keep in mind this child has never cooked anything that required a recipe, unless you count the directions on the back of a mac and cheese box.

He and his (absolutely adorable) girlfriend take over the kitchen, and I leave to run to the drug store. By the time I get back, the kitchen is in an uproar - milk is boiling over on the stove, the Kitchenaid is running on high working on egg whites that won't seem to fluff up, and there's something that looks like grainy yellow snot in another bowl.

Me: "Um, did you separate the eggs?"

Son: "Sure we did!"

Me: "Um, did you make sure they're COMPLETELY separated, like no yolks in with the whites?"

Son: [rolling eyes] "Yes, mom, we're sure."

Me: [raises eyebrow at girlfriend, who nods enthusiastically]

Me: "I think we'd better start over." [dumps everything into sink and washes pans/bowls] "Okay, get two more eggs and separate them....what are you doing?"

Son: [grabs two eggs gets and proceeds to crack each whole egg INTO SEPARATE BOWLS] "I'm separating the eggs."

Me: [eyes watering, trying to breathe normally around uncontrollable urge to laugh] "How did you separate the eggs whites from the yolks?"

Son: "Well, I kind of scraped the clear part away from the yellow part with a spoon..."

Me: [almost peeing myself, giving up and howling with laughter]

Son: [looking confused] "That's not how you do it?"

Me: [gasping] "No, honey. You've never seen me use this?" [holding up tupperware egg separator]

Son: [blinks] "Oh...yeaaahhhh..."

Me: [patting his head] "You can incorporate a bit of chemistry into your lesson, the one about any trace of yolk in your whites and the whites won't whip up."

[[Twenty minutes later]]

Son and Girlfriend: "Oooooh! Aaahhhh! So that's what it was supposed to look like!"

Me: [shaking head, fearing for the future of our country's children...oh, and calling my parents to give them a good laugh, too]

(I left out the part about the blue food coloring that's now all over the kitchen floor...)

thanks carolyn i needed a laugh

this is fantastic. I can just imagine you trying to keep a straight face, and him looking all earnest trying to explain his seperating system!

Kate she is a better woman than I am. I wouldhave laughed and called my son a nuckle head.

I wish you got it on video tape now that would have been a treat!!!

I should have! I knew ahead of time that the potential for disaster was pretty high! Laughing my arse off in front of his girlfriend was bad enough - a Youtube video would have made the humiliation complete!

Luckily he has the ability to laugh at himself, but I think Youtube would have been too much. It was bad enough when I posted a video of him on his 16th birthday. His sister, who waitresses at a steakhouse, thought it would be funny to put him on the wooden pony while the staff sang to him. Well, I had my camera with me, so...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atFD8ZJcVds