His Wife Feels That He Completely Upstaged Her Christmas Cookie Baking Tradition, Because He Tried To Come Up With A More Efficient Way Of Doing Things
A 25-year-old guy and his 23-year-old wife bake Christmas cookies every year for Christmas, and then they invite their friends over to help frost all of them.
When they’re done, they give the cookies to their friends who help, as well as their loved ones.
Every single Christmas, his wife basically does all of the baking, as she insists that she’s the only single person who knows how to bake the cookies the correct way.
“She always insisted on doing all the baking because the frosting is the fun part and the only thing people want to do,” he explained.
“Usually, this frosting and baking marathon would last until the wee hours of the morning and start around noon.”
This year, his wife didn’t happen to be home on the day they always pick to bake their Christmas cookies, and she let him know that she felt pretty down about missing their tradition.
He told his wife that he could make the cookies, and she figured he was pranking her. He was serious, though; he really wanted to give it try.
He spent days perfecting his method of baking the cookies in a more efficient manner.
“Come the day of baking, I have everything down to a science,” he said. “As friends and family come in, I give them the run down.”
suzanam – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual cookies
“After a couple of hours, most kinks are worked out, and cookies are flowing out at a breakneck pace. Eventually, we start running out of material! Something that never happened under my wife’s Aegis. We start making runs to the store for the necessary raw materials to fuel our mighty cookie forges!”
“By the time we were exhausted around 2 a.m., we had produced at least 5 times the amount of cookies we ever had before. Well, my wife gets home a couple days later and is weirdly upset. She insists the cookies taste weird, that we spent too much money, and that I was actively trying to make her look bad by making so much more than her.”
To be honest, he did ask everyone if they could tell the difference between the recipe his wife always uses for Christmas cookies and his recipe, and not a single soul could tell the difference.
He did spend about 40% more this year on ingredients, but that was because he purchased a lot of things in bulk.
He really was not trying to upstage his wife or make her feel bad; he only wanted to “maximize” the Christmas cookie output.
“She says that even if I didn’t do it on purpose that I should have thought about how it made her look …and that I have embarrassed her,” he continued.
His wife also called him something along the lines of a jerk, which she has never done in the 3 whole years that they have been married.
He’s left wondering if it really was mean of him to only want to help bake Christmas cookies in a better way.
What do you think?
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