She Asked Her Husband to Stop Altering the Cutting Boards Her Dad Made — He Brushed It Off as ‘Creative’
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Kitchen creativity can become surprisingly dangerous when sentimental cookware enters the experiment.
One wife discovered her husband standing on handmade cutting boards while using them to flatten tortillas.
Instead of immediately understanding her concern, he defended the unusual technique as another one of his creative ideas.
Let’s see how this kitchen conflict unfolded.
AITA for getting angry and walking away from my husband for standing on my cutting boards?
I walked into the kitchen to see my husband standing on my handmade cutting boards.
They have vertical sections glued together, pieces made by my dad.
He is smashing/flattening tortillas between two of them, doing this.
She was baffled.
I loudly told him absolutely not.
He says back “why not?”.
I’m like “Can you maybe try and think about why that might not be a good idea??”
Of course, he says no.
She had to explain it to him.
I said, “well, they will snap with uneven pressure like that for one”.
Second, I don’t want my cutting boards on the dirty ground.
Lastly, “why can’t you think just a little bit before you do things like this???”
But he made her second-guess her stance.
Mind you, we have like 10 other cutting boards I would not of cared about because they are solid and wouldn’t snap like these ones.
His response “I’m not going to apologize for having creative ideas.”
Y’all, I can’t.
I walked out.
No apology or accountability, just his typical comments.
AITA for getting mad?
He should’ve apologized. But he also shouldn’t have done this in the first place.
Let’s see how Reddit feels about this.
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OP explained that the dirty floor and uneven pressure could damage the handmade boards, while several sturdier alternatives were readily available.
A simple acknowledgment and switch to another board could have ended everything, but her husband refused to apologize and she walked away.
He defended himself like a culinary innovator despite inventing a tortilla press powered entirely by shoes and sentimental family heirlooms.
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