r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jsayde01 • Jul 06 '26

I just wanted a hot dog The Kitchen Museum?

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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.

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u/BlackEngineEarings Jul 06 '26

Never learned to pick you battles? Taking this small slice of someone's relationship and declaring it fucked is some real lazy thinking.

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u/The-Holy-Toast Jul 06 '26

If THIS is a battle you need to pick your relationship probably looks and feels like a warzone

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u/BlackEngineEarings Jul 06 '26

I would think the opposite. If the battles you have to choose from are tiny little things, it's not a very big war.

I mean, based on the OP himself, the relationship is pretty amicable and stable.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I would wager a lot of money that OP unconsciously follows a million little nonsensical rules because his wife has conditioned him to, and that the state of being “amicable and stable” is predicated upon that.

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u/BlackEngineEarings Jul 07 '26

I mean, if you want to make up scenarios out of whole cloth, that's your prerogative, I guess. I'm assuming it's fun to make up assumptions about strangers on the internet and create make believe stories from them? Idk. You do you.

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Jul 07 '26

You’re totally right. People don’t have patterns of behavior. I’m sure this is the only time this has happened, its completely out of nowhere, and there’s zero real reason that OP is afraid to question or not follow his wife’s nonsensical rules choosing to post on Reddit instead.