Dinner Disaster!

[Fistandantalus]

When I was eight months pregnant with my first child, I was putting together a nice chicken, potato and spinach casserole while my German Shepherd Riker was snoozing on the living room couch.  Riker was a highly-trained obedience dog with several Best In Show titles.  It had been a long time since he'd put a toe out of line, let me tell you.  I went to get something out of the car and when I came back 40 seconds later, Riker was standing in the middle of the exploded casserole nomming down raw chicken and licking olive oil and wine off his chops.  I immediately put him in his crate with a scolding (he absolutely could not have cared less about my piddly scoldings, he was on Cloud Nine) and slowly and carefully got down on my hands and knees to clean up nine square feet of broken casserole shards and splattered chicken, potatoes, spinach, oilve oil, mushrooms, chicken stock, wine and rosemary.  Upon seeing the difficulty of the operation I was enmeshed in, I began to cry helplessly and tried to get up.  With oil all over my hands and knees and the floor, I simply couldn't get up!  I crawled over to the phone, knocked it off the counter with a flung dishtowel and called my mother.

"MOOOOOOM!  The dog knocked my dinner down and now I can't get up off the floor and I'm HUNGRY!"  I was 31 years old at the time and I sounded (and felt) about eight.  About 15 minutes later, my mother arrived, helped me up off the floor and onto the couch and started cleaning up while I sobbed.  About 15 minutes after that, my husband came home (my mother called him at work) with a bucket of fried chicken.  He left one of his loyal Huzbros in charge of the comic book store to come home and bring me something to eat.

That was the last time I ever left Riker alone with raw chicken.

[aurorabunny]

Jul. 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Awwww.  After reading that I just want to come hug 8 month pregnant, covered in oil and chicken Liz.  Hehe.

Mr.Smiles has done that twice and I was sooooo mad.

[bargingirl]

Jul. 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Poor thing! It was a good thing your mom lived close by.

[MemaSu]

Jul. 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM

Thanks for the laugh! I needed it! Anyone with a dog has had a similar type of disaster!

[KTMOM]

Jul. 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM wow, sounds like a traumatic event there. And ummmm, care to share that recipe? Minus the dog slobber of course? LOL

[clairandamjones]

Jul. 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM

Now I'm hungry.  But at least I'm not pregnant.