Halted Dinner

So we both vowed to blog about this but since one of us has exams to study for and too little time to actually account for this awesome eventful evening, here i stand before you, a used person for another's humour...

Here's how it started... the plan was... to meet at school, walk back home and stop by Coles to pick up some much needed ingredients for our dinner.... turns out, we had to stop by to get more than ingredients coz a certain boy's mouth was itchy for sumthing sweet... he ended up buying a pack of biscuits that he never did eat till another night... but that's not the point... so he and she went to get a pack of beef mince that cost... hmm $4.48? how that's relevant, he doesn't know... and stop asking him why he's talking in 3rd person... maybe it helps him recollect the story. haha.

So they get mince and other stuff... not to mention the fact that they wander around a bit wondering to selves whether they DO sell tomato soup... in a can. :) alas... that is a very important ingredient... as to why, i beg u to continue reading this... it might even be used as a tool to keep the suspense up so readers of this blog have sumthing to look forward to other than the tease of thrill in the title.... ANYHOO... they get mince, tomato soup, biscuits and onions... and other stuff... and proceed to head to the checkout line. He checks out the typo in the display and wonders to himself if Jim [or Ji as the display reads] is ... queer or not coz he sure displays signs of... endearment towards hand gestures... they walk out and head towards her place jus a street away and manage to finally get up to the warmth and security of home...

Relaxing for the moment just after unloading groceries, he mentally calculates enuf time to cook and eat... so he knows they have at least an hour to just talk and get comfortable in conversation... demanding snacks, he's treated to digestives! his favourite roll of biscuits as of now... They talk and finally at 5:10pm, they decide that it's time to cook...

This... my frens, is where the fun starts...

so she starts cutting onions coz from past experiences of TRYING to help, he ruined the onions and got a mess of weirdly cut pieces... so knowing his skills surely don't fall in that area, he graciously offers to open the can of tomato soup... yes, the wait is over... she suddenly drops everything and realizes one important factor... no can opener... panic ensues as she tries to call a neighbour, who wasn't home, and finally made the decision to go to coles and grab one off the shelf... alas... guess who.

So he runs down... in a hurry to get a can opener and realizes his phone is left upstairs at home... brilliant. he thinks himself a straight genius for managing to do sumthing so clever as that... nonetheless, he scouts around till he has prob memorized what's along the aisles of Coles... finally he spots it with the help of some staff and grabs it to see the checkout line had multiplied itself 10fold... breathing a sigh, he joins the queue... he feels like an idiot holding a can opener while before and after him, baskets of groceries hide the flooring.

*Beep*... no, no cash out please he replies the cashier..

He hurries up but by this time, it's already 5:30... that's half an hour... he proceeds to open the can of tomato soup... by now, she's cut the garlic, onions and has prepared the pot... they throw in butter and onions after he's finally managed to understand the sheer mechanics of a can opener... and the onion and butter start frying... he glances at the clock and makes a hard decision... it's 5:45... and they had to leave by 6...

SO... dinner was halted and they both made the decision to leave the dinner half cooked for later when they returned home.... sharing one too many laughs... they decide to abandon the idea of having dinner before their friend's exhibition and prep to leave... buttered onions in mid-fry.

so they pack and leave, attend the exhibition and come back to finish off the cooking and finally have dinner at 9.30pm... oh, to mention also that she wrote the recipe down and instead of writing mince... she wrote mice... so it became... add mice and brown lightly... that was disturbing.

:) they vow to blog about it and recollect this eventful day coz it was just too hilarious to foroget... and thus, here's the account. Hope it was as funny and entertaining to you as it was, and probably still is, to them. :)

p.s. dinner was awesome. yummy and well worth the wait.