A man was in the kitchen cooking a couple cakes of cornbread. The day before his wife told him he didn't need to make any cornbread but he replied that he wanted some. There were two sizes of skillets in the oven, the timer was set for twenty minutes and everything was going according to plan. When the twenty minute timer went off, the man pulled the skillets from the oven and tested the cornbread for doneness, The smaller skillet was done but the larger skillet needed a little more time in the oven. Before he could pop the skillet back into the oven and reset the timer his wife came by and turned the timer and oven off.
He asked her what are you doing and she said the timer was beeping. "I know but I didn't want the oven turned off".
Well, I'll just turn it back on" she retorted.
"No, just forget it."
He cut the smaller cake of cornbread and offered his wife a taste. "
"I grew up on Jiffy cornbread mix" she said. "I don't like this".
Maybe the wife thought she was helping but the day before she started the whole affair by criticizing his desire to make cornbread. The man knew the smaller skillet would cook faster than the big skillet so it would take an additional 5 minutes to cook. He pulled both pans from the oven to test them for doneness and to determine if 5 minutes would be enough to finish the big pan. When the wife cut the oven off it was, to him, just his wife's way of showing her displeasure at him cooking the cornbread when she didn't want him too and to signal him she didn't think he knew what he was doing. When she made the remark about Jiffy cornbread mix, it just added insult to injury.
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