Freezing Food
Cold noodles and grilled chicken is a sign that you took too long to get to the table and need to get there quicker. I’m sure more than just my family has this problem, right? It is the same thing all the time. Someone cooks dinner, they call everyone to the table, no one come to the table until 15 minutes later, and everyone is annoyed that they now have to microwave their food. To solve the problem of my family not coming to the dinner table on time, I have conducted multiple different types of experiments to see which one was more effective and what made them come to the table quicker.
Different people cook dinner in my house, not just one. So whenever they are the one not cooking, they are distracted by something else that delays them from coming to the table. My father is normally in the extra garage outside in our backyard, so calling for him is annoying since you can’t just yell throughout the house for him, but rather have to walk outside and tell him. My mother is normally the one who cooks in the house, so often she isn’t a problem. But sometimes she is working on the computer and gets really salty when you interrupt her to tell her it is time to eat. My Older brother doesn’t cook. He just sleeps. My little brother is hooked to video games from the time he gets home to the time he falls asleep. So his excuse is ‘I can’t pause the game, don’t interrupt me i’m doing so well’ and takes about 20 minutes to get to the table. I am normally doing my homework or on my phone and like to procrastinate. I don’t always cook, but on rare occasions I do. So I contribute to this problem. What I want to get out of this experiment is for everyone to come to the table after being asked only once, and not take 20 minutes to get to the table. The solution to this problem is for everyone to be annoyed to the point that it is not worth saying ‘give me another 5 minutes’ before they get to the table. Annoying the people not cooking the meal is like giving back how annoyed the person who cooked feels when they work hard to make food only for people to complain that it is cold, even though it is entirely that person's fault. I find the most effective way to do this was the air horn method. This didn’t just bug them, it annoyed them so badly to the point that it was the winning method. Everyone comes to the table as soon as i show them i’m holding the air horn. (I may have men over using it a bit to get the point across. Another method I tried was serving cold food. But that was a bag fail because they just heated it up and didn’t complain any more than usual. In all honesty I don’t think this will have a lasting effect. I think now that they know my experiment is over I don’t have a reason to be terrorizing them with the air horn. I think for a few months after this experiment there will be a lasting effect, but after that, no. Overall I learned that being annoying can be effective. I think if I could have done these experiments again I would have tried other things that might of annoyed them as well, instead of just using the air horn. The results I feel would be even more interesting. Basically what's to be learned here is that it’s disrespectful to not come eat the food someone worked so hard to make while it's warm, and instead the person had to sit there while everyone goes to microwave and dryout their food. |