Ellemental

So, just hypothetically speaking here, say you don’t do a lot of cooking/baking. Say you have only used your oven once or twice in the past year. Say that (because you apparently suffered some kind of head trauma) you offered to bring dessert for the next day’s office potluck. Say that, because you’re not even sure if your oven works, you decide on no-bake cookies.

mmmmmm. No-bake cookies.

Say that you actually make it through the cooking process and have just finished spooning the little piles of delight onto the wax paper. This is, of course after buying all the ingredients at the grocery store (ALL the ingredients, because who keeps sugar and butter just lying around at home???),and spending quite a bit of time measuring, adding, stirring, boiling, etc. There is quite an investment in these no-bake cookies.

mmmmmm. No-bake cookies.

Anyhow. Say the ingredient buying, stirring, and adding is all done. The cookies are on the wax paper. You decide to take this opportunity to walk into the bedroom to put on some music so you can relax, and you walk back into the kitchen and two cats are standing on the countertop on the wax paper with the no-bake cookies.

Let me say that again:

TWO CATS ARE STANDING ON THE COUNTERTOP ON THE WAX PAPER WITH THE NO-BAKE COOKIES.

Do you:  pick off the cat hair and take the cookies anyhow?  Throw away the cookies and stop by the grocery store in the morning to buy cookies that you can pass off as your own?  Call off work the next day because the top of your head hurts where you bumped it when you HIT THE FREAKIN’ ROOF?

Just curious.