So my new roommate (not room roommate, but saying housemate makes me feel like I'm on the Real World Provo, or something) is a freshman out of the inland empire in California. She's very sweet and incredibly timid, and it's been an adventure remembering just how much you don't know when you're a freshman. Today she decided to make snickerdoodles (green ones!) for a Troll 2 party our house was throwing, and here were some of the highlights of the conversation:
Her: "So, what time should I start making them?"
Me: "Well, how long do they take to make?"
Her: "The recipe says bake for 11 minutes... so if the party starts at 8, I should probably mix them up at 7:45"
Me: "Don't snickerdoodles have to refrigerate for awhile? Also, you're probably going to have to bake more than one batch."
Her: "No. The recipe just says bake."
Me: "Check out right here where it says 'refrigerate 1 hour.'"
Her: "Do we have any cream of tartar?"
Me: "Probably not"
Her: "What am I supposed to do then? Do you want me to go buy it or something?"
Me: pretended that was a rhetorical question and kept vacuuming.
Her: "What about flour, sugar, and vanilla? Oh, and eggs, butter, and crisco? Where are those?"
Mental Me: "At the store, with the cream of tartar."
Verbal Me: "There might be some in the communal baking cabinet. Just make sure to replace whatever you use the last or almost last of."
Her, while staring at the finished dough: "So when do I add the food coloring? Now? or after I bake them?"
Oh the joys of leaving home for the first time!
8 comments:
I just died laughing!!!!! Do you remember freshman me??
:) oh, the good ol' days when we didn't know anything but thought we did...but I think I always knew not to add food coloring after baking the cookies...
we still need to do lunch sometime! :)
I don't think that's freshman syndrome, I think that's "I'm spoiled and my mother never made me do anything for myself or taught me anything" syndrome.
that's hilarious! Kudos to you for being so kind...your "mental me" thoughts would have been my verbal answer...
awesomeness. just awesomeness.
Are you sure you're not still in Ely?
how the flip did your roommate get into byu? everyone with a resonable SAT/ACT score knows when to add food coloring.
I think the less said the better...
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