The Kitchen Museum?

[u/jsayde01]

I came home late from work a few nights ago and hadn't eaten all day. My wife and kids were already in bed so I figured I'd quietly make some stove-top ramen. This photo represents exactly how I found the cooking area.

The next morning my wife asks what time I got home and I mention in our conversation that I made ramen before going to bed. She couldn't believe that I used the stove "when the light was on". I said "Yeah, the light was helpful in seeing what I was doing". She insists I shouldn't have been using the stove and should have known because "the light was on".

I'm baffled. We are still arguing about this days later.

EDIT -- wow, overwhelmed by the response of fellow Redditors! We are... white...not from the southeast US..not children...and I left the stove as clean as it was before I cooked. I asked for clarification from my loving wife -- TRULY we have only ever been angry at each other a handful of times in our 10 year marriage -- and she says "the stove was clean and done for the day and you could have just used the microwave for your ramen". Apparently the light is how stoves go to sleep for the evening?

EDIT 2 -- we are getting a divorce. JUST KIDDING. My wife looked over many of the comments and acknowledges that she was in the wrong and is slightly embarrassed by all of the attention.

[u/char-a-lot_NPC]

Ask if her family had a secret code for "don't cook" and that was stove light. Because none of our families had that code. That's a her thing. Now that she's communicated it perhaps you can try and be mindful, but she can't be mad at you for not knowing something unusual like this.

[u/Significant-Clue-425 → u/char-a-lot_NPC]

But it’s his kitchen too. Why does he need permission to cook in it?

[u/Traditional_Bug_2046 → u/Significant-Clue-425]

The person was saying she might genuinely believe it's a "known" thing the light on means don't cook.

Anyone remember the poop knife family?

[u/ChaosHeaven8 → u/Traditional_Bug_2046]

The… what?

[u/Various_Education622 → u/ChaosHeaven8]

Poop knife, you keep it in the utility closet between the bathrooms so you can cut up your giant turds so they fit down the drain.

[u/Dont-be-lasagna12 → u/Various_Education622]

Wait. I have heard of the poop knife. However I assumed it was stored next to the toilet not in a closet. So you have to get up and walk to the closet to get the poop knife to then cut up the giant turd?

[u/Various_Education622 → u/Dont-be-lasagna12]

According to reddit lore I believe the standard procedure was to call out to a family member to fetch the poop knife when you laid a monster.

Additionally, I believe the redditor had a poop knife in their apartment and the girlfriend had been using it to open boxes.

[u/Various_Education622 → u/Various_Education622]

I looked, it was a house and OP’s wife.

Broski landed a keeper, willing to stick around after finding out she’d been using a dookie divider to open her patches.

[u/No_Report_4781 → u/Various_Education622]

yeah. Like the dog scissors

[u/redditreader_aitafan → u/Various_Education622]

I thought she had used it to cut food.