Getting Chilly
Can I have some cereal?
The Little Lady asked.
I made a fatherly farting noise with my face and looked up from my Kindle.
Eh? Course you can. You don't have to ask.
I went back to reading.
Out of the corner of my eye, the Little Lady went into the kitchen, fannied about and returned with a bowl of cereal.
Ew, the bowl is oily underneath!
She said as if I were making her wear hessian.
There must have been something on the worktop.
I said absentmindedly. My book was getting to a good bit and children's oily concerns were far from my mind.
The Little Lady's spoon clinked away as she ate. It didn't take her long to finish and she took her bowl to the kitchen and came back.
I'm tired, Daddy, aren't you?
She rubbed her eyes.
I nodded in agreement. It had been a rough night. The Little Boom had suffered from shrieking nightmares which had kept us all awake for most of the night.
Damn, my book really was getting good. One of the kids in it was going to...
AAAARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I jerked upward to see the little lady screaming and holding her face.
WTFUNKZ!? Are you ok. What happened??
I jumped off the chair toward her.
She leapt back still clutching her face.
At that point the Good Lady came rushing in.
What's going on? What happened!?
MY EYES!? THEY'RE BURNING!!!
Yelled the Little Lady.
The Good Lady ran over to her and pulled her hands gently away from her eyes.
Her eyes were quite red and watering. The Good Lady turned to me alarmed.
What can it be!?!
I racked my brains. Then it dawned on me.
Haha!!! Chilli paste!! I made chilli paste earlier! She must have touched some, she did say the bottom of her bowl was oily!
I couldn't help but chortle a bit, chilli in the eye was something that had happened to me a lot over the years.
The Little Lady let a yell that topped all the rest.
AM I DYING!?!
I stifled my laughter, leapt up and got some dry kitchen paper.
Here dab the tears from your eyes and blink lots.
Owww!! Ow, ow, owwww!
The Good Lady was swaying backwards and forwards and now she was holding the heels of her hands on her eyes too.
My eyes, Daddy, you idiot!!!!
I passed her some kitchen paper and repeated my advice.
WILL IT LAST FOREVER!?!
Yelled the Little Lady.
Nah, give it ten minutes. You will both be fine.
I said reassuringly.
Sure enough, ten minutes later, the screaming had just about stopped. The Good Lady managed to focus on me with a watery eye.
Daddy-Bear, are you actually laughing at all this?
She said grimly.
What!?! Oh no... Not I?!
I lied.
The Good Lady gave me a dark look and nodded.
We will talk later. When they have gone to bed.
She hissed.
Ah. I think I might be in trouble.
Lol, good story. I just let out a little chortle of my own haha.
That's one of my favourite words, chortle... :0D
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A dishwasher would solve this problem. Handwashing dishes is a health hazard and should really be outlawed.
I really should get one. My argument against it is that we are hoping to get a bigger kitchen. Which is not looking kindly and invalidates my argument. Lol!
You know you can move the dishwasher if you put it in and want to change things. :)
That should add if it's getting complex now ;0)
Ha! Yes!
I was looking at what I wrote and can't even decipher it, damn autocorrect, lol!
You chortled?? You didn't!! :) I am just a little bit thinking about the trouble you might be in!
Payback is a wicked witch of sorts. Chortle for me a little! LOL
You know you want to!
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I couldn't help the chortling! It was like a rite of passage and I was highly amused although everyone else same. Lol!!
Oh, wouldn't we all love to be a fly on the wall? LOL
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Did I tell you about my friend? He is an experienced chilli eater and like you has had similar experiences over his chilli eating time. One day while preparing a chilli dish with some particularly hot specimens, he needed to answer a call of nature. Knowing all of the things he knew, he scrubbed hands and arms with soap and surgical precision before going on his merry way.
Only to very slowly feel the burn creeping in while doing his thing.
Now that was hilarious XD
ps - hope you didn't get into too much trouble ;D
I got into bags of trouble! Mainly for being an untidy git in the kitchen!!
You know the very same thing has happened to me countless times. It seems that no matter how careful you are sometimes a bit gets past you. And oh how it burns on the nethers!!
RoFL! Well I guess the being an untidy git in the kitchen was deserved, the chilli oils just exacerbated everything XD
And more RoFL over having had the other thing happen to you you poor bastard XD
Hhahahaha shame, but it is very funny..... I would just sleep with one eye open if I were you.
I can't do that, what if they stick a chilli in it!! :0D
Hahahaha payback is mostly a bitch
Apparently, chilli paste makes a good aphrodisiac!