Final semester, nearly four years of hostel, and she called to ask how long to boil an egg

willow_compass_2269

Our daughter has lived in a hostel since her first year of college. This evening she video-called from the hostel pantry, a pan of water in one hand and two eggs in the other, to ask how long to boil them. Hard, she said, 'like aai makes'. I told her ten minutes. She asked, 'From when?' She graduates in a few months, and I have just learned that nobody ever taught her when water counts as boiling 🙂

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  • amber_window_9588

    to be fair, 'from when' is a reasonable engineering question. the spec was unclear

    • willow_compass_2269

      That's exactly what she said when I laughed. She sent a photo later: one perfect, one cracked and leaking. She's calling it a 50% success rate.

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