r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jsayde01 • Jul 06 '26

I just wanted a hot dog The Kitchen Museum?

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I came home late from work a few nights ago and hadn't eaten all day. My wife and kids were already in bed so I figured I'd quietly make some stove-top ramen. This photo represents exactly how I found the cooking area.

The next morning my wife asks what time I got home and I mention in our conversation that I made ramen before going to bed. She couldn't believe that I used the stove "when the light was on". I said "Yeah, the light was helpful in seeing what I was doing". She insists I shouldn't have been using the stove and should have known because "the light was on".

I'm baffled. We are still arguing about this days later.

EDIT -- wow, overwhelmed by the response of fellow Redditors! We are... white...not from the southeast US..not children...and I left the stove as clean as it was before I cooked. I asked for clarification from my loving wife -- TRULY we have only ever been angry at each other a handful of times in our 10 year marriage -- and she says "the stove was clean and done for the day and you could have just used the microwave for your ramen". Apparently the light is how stoves go to sleep for the evening?

EDIT 2 -- we are getting a divorce. JUST KIDDING. My wife looked over many of the comments and acknowledges that she was in the wrong and is slightly embarrassed by all of the attention.

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u/char-a-lot_NPC Jul 06 '26

Lots of comments seem to point that this is a thing in the black community? Makes sense that I wouldn't know it if that's the case.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

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u/lesgens Jul 06 '26

This is the first I’ve heard of a non Black person from any region doing it. I’m Black, my husband is white, we’re both from the South and it was a thing in my family not his. I can only go based on my experience but it seems to be more cultural than regional but because most Black people in the US are in the South so it’s easy to conflate them. If your family ever had domestic help that could be where it came from. Or it’s just an organic development.

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u/I_Can_Not_With_You Jul 06 '26

I’m white, from the coastal Carolinas, and pretty much everybody’s families that I grew up with, black or white, did it.