This is Teresa Smeigh from www.tessacandoit.com writing as Tessa Dean on www.tessadeanauthor.com.
Preheat the Oven
By Tessa Dean July 2020
I looked at the kitchen sink and surrounding area. The clean dishes were in the drainer and the counters and sink were full of dirty dishes. My mother and father were on their way over and I had about five minutes to straighten this kitchen up or my mother would give me a lecture on cleanliness.
I grabbed the drainer and shoved the drainer and clean dishes into the oven. I opened the dishwasher and threw all the dirty dishes into it and jammed it shut.
“Janet, preheat the oven, I brought over a lasagna for dinner,” my mother said.
*****100 words*****
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.com
Author – Old Writing – http://www.finallyawriter.com
About my life – http://www.tessacandoit.com
Author of a book, a work in progress on the blog, https://tessacandoit.com/government-property-a-memoir-as-a-military-wife/
Highlighted chapters are done and ready to be read.
I am also a youtuber in the authortube section on writing. See my videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSpNS-6gfJ0s8eD1berLwQg
There’s nothing for it. She’s going to have to fire up the oven
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hopefully she will take the drainer and dishes out first despite the lecture. LOL!
LikeLike
No. She won’t
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh boy, what a mess and the smell, ack!
LikeLike
Oh, how nicely things work out when mother brings food. 🙂 Well told.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Why do we always get caught out by our mothers!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Because Mom’s always know and probably do it themselves. We have to learn somewhere.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hah! I never understood those who put dirty dishes into the oven, never mind clean ones!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Me too! Know lots of people who do it though.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oops! This reminds of an old friend who used to hide away all his dirty pots and pans when he had visitors. 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
LikeLiked by 2 people
I know people who do this too. I don’t. I leave the mess right where it is LOL!
LikeLike
True sounding slice of life. The things we do to avoid that disapproving voice in our lives. Surely, she’ll take out the the drainer. Yuck. Nicely written!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you! I would hope that she would take out the drainer before turning on the oven. That would be a disaster in the making.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’d a feeling that wasn’t going to work.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yet so many people do it. LOL!
LikeLike