When you live with a teenager, no matter what you do, you can't win. We recently received as a gift these very fancy brand-name set of professional quality pots & pans made of heavy iron. Well, I have been trying to teach our teenager how to cook, so naturally our old pots and pans were not worthy enough for the task. So our teenage royal majesty, immediately declared our old pots and pans obsolete and said that we should only use these new pots to cook. Not wanting to get into yet another argument I said fine...
A week goes by, suddenly said teenager is asking me where are the old pots, kind of exasperated, I ask why are they looking for the old pots--oh, because these new pots are disgusting! look at all those ugly spots! I'm totally annoyed and state that--well--YOU were the one that banished them from the kitchen, so don't ask me! Next thing you know---yep---a huge argument begins. Totally annoyed I just handed them every pot and told them that, from now on, the pots and pans are their responsibility to wash and clean, I get a look of utter shock...who me...?!
Well-- we are back to using the old pots and pans and the fancy pots and pans are gathering dust.
