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Chillin' and grillin'
Apr. 24th, 2008 11:28 pmI used the new grill for the first time tonight.
If you will remember, Dad got a new grill about a month or so ago. I can't remember exactly when. I know I blogged about but I'll be damned if I go back to find the entry. I wouldn't even be sure when to start looking. I have a poor concept of time.
Anyway, my first attempt to use the grill was rained out, so I made a go for it today.
It's a fancy grill, not like the primative food warmer I grew up with. Just turn on the gas and push a button. Right.
No.
I did that and nothing happened.
So then I decided to read the instructions that were conveniently printed on the front of the grill. After locating the English ones (I tried doing the Spanish ones, but since my grasp of that language is limited and I'm playing with fire, I decided it might be worth not having to get skin grafts trying to be clever and went with English), I realized there were like nine steps to light this damn thing.
This grill was not designed for people with my last name. First of all, we rarely read instructions in the first place and secondly, if it has more than three steps, we end up doing it our way and sometimes that means we go through an awkward period of regrowing eyebrows.
I read over the first few steps, figured out my mistake (I had to turn on the other knobs as well...Dad made no mention of these knobs being necessary for making fire) and lit the grill with my eyebrows intact and my skin not bubbling and on fire.
The lemon chicken was delicious.
I do believe I can get used to this new fancy thing.
If you will remember, Dad got a new grill about a month or so ago. I can't remember exactly when. I know I blogged about but I'll be damned if I go back to find the entry. I wouldn't even be sure when to start looking. I have a poor concept of time.
Anyway, my first attempt to use the grill was rained out, so I made a go for it today.
It's a fancy grill, not like the primative food warmer I grew up with. Just turn on the gas and push a button. Right.
No.
I did that and nothing happened.
So then I decided to read the instructions that were conveniently printed on the front of the grill. After locating the English ones (I tried doing the Spanish ones, but since my grasp of that language is limited and I'm playing with fire, I decided it might be worth not having to get skin grafts trying to be clever and went with English), I realized there were like nine steps to light this damn thing.
This grill was not designed for people with my last name. First of all, we rarely read instructions in the first place and secondly, if it has more than three steps, we end up doing it our way and sometimes that means we go through an awkward period of regrowing eyebrows.
I read over the first few steps, figured out my mistake (I had to turn on the other knobs as well...Dad made no mention of these knobs being necessary for making fire) and lit the grill with my eyebrows intact and my skin not bubbling and on fire.
The lemon chicken was delicious.
I do believe I can get used to this new fancy thing.
