Week 2: The Missing Stair

[caile]

It's best not to want anything from the kitchen when my father is cooking. He slams the cupboard doors and clangs the pots and stomps on the brown linoleum flowers underfoot. He fills up the whole room with a fug of irritability. If you go to the sink, it's bound to be just when he needs water. If you open the fridge, he'll trip over you. Wherever

Comments

[solstice_singer]

Anger is a scary thing, especially when you can't predict it. Hopefully, your father will get some help so his anger can at least be managed better.

This was, as usual, a very well-written entry. Thank you for sharing.

[whipchick]

"He's cranky whether or not there's cheese in a recipe." made me laugh out loud :)

It's interesting to see the POV of the daughters here. My mother and aunts were actually just having a discussion about kids being picky eaters and how parents shouldn't enable them--either you eat what's put in front of you or you go hungry. But once kids are old enough to say 'no thank you, I'll make my own sandwich', there's gotta be some leeway there. So I wonder if that's part of the generational conflict?

[belenen]

I feel ya.

[snarkerdoodle]

He can't teach us how to untangle the mess each generation makes of the next.

Best ending line I've read so far. :)

[n3m3sis43]

Like everyone else said, god, that ending line.