I have to say, I’m pretty easy-going about Gary. My spouse gets up to all kinds of nonsense that other wives would not tolerate. But there is one thing he does now that is making me insane.
It’s the way he eats cornflakes.
Up to now he has been loyal to Raisin Bran. But in his effort to diagnose what sets off his allergies, he is branching out into other cereals, and his current favorite is cornflakes.
He eats them a) one cornflake at a time with b) a particular allowed cornflake-to-milk ratio.
- Too much milk? Drop the cornflake back in the bowl, try again.
- Too little milk? Drop the cornflake back in the bowl, tap it with the spoon a few times to “moisten” it, try again.
The sight of Gary doing this doesn’t bother me. The noise does. There’s the single clink (“clink!”) when the single cornflake is trapped against the side of the bowl, multiplied by the number of cornflakes in a serving (lots), and then when the milk runs low, the added spoon-moistening (“clink! clink clink clink!”).
With the Raisin Bran he never had this problem. Maybe it was more of a chore? Less of a hunt? And of course I could suggest a plastic bowl or spoon but that would be ignored.
It only lasts about twenty minutes a day, but it’s maddening.