Kitchen fun

At the dorm I live at, Benefactors, on our floor there are 22 of us to our kitchen. I still fail to understand this since I think I have only seen maybe 15 of us, but anyway…Cooking in our kitchen has been rather chaotic at times. We have had two fires, only one of which required the fire blanket thankfully, and there are times when it is rather hard to get around because there are so many of us in there at once.

Although by far the most common incident that occurs in our kitchen is food appearing on the small part of open fridge space you have left, that you did not buy, and random attacks of fridge food. Let me explain….

Towards the end of the week or near to when you are about to go shopping, there ends up being more space available as you use eat/drink things. That is fine, except when you come in the kitchen, open the fridge, and gasp at the sudden intrusion of milk or vegetables or cheese that is now on your shelf. This probably does not seem like that big of a deal but it is when you try to get around that stuff to get to your stuff. When you try to go around it, instead of moving it out of the way all together, that is generally when the random attacks of fridge food occur. Picture this…someone put a yogurt at the front of your fridge space near the edge. Not wanting to move it for whatever reason, you attempt to go around it in order to retrieve your milk. While delicately going around it, you do not notice the yogurt beginning to tilt until….SPLAT. You look down in horror (well I did anyway) to see yogurt all over the floor, your pants, and your shoes. This is a fairly common occurrence, though usually it is not yogurt that is falling.

Apart from the attacking food, invading food, and crowded conditions, the kitchen is actually quite nice. Most everyone has their own shelf space, with a lot of us opting to also keep some things in our room, and with the recent exception of a sudden spurt of vegetable thievery, stolen food has been kept to a minimum.