Old man XXIII: Cooking

Well... here's a surprise... weird things happen when the old man cooks..

I exited my room to be greeted by the warm black odor of burnt meat.  I see the old man on the couch... so I'm thinking, "Ok, he's burnt his food.. and he's eaten it or something.."  But when I get to the kitchen.. the oven is still on. Ok... so I get to making my dinner... Old man shows up in the kitchen and says, "What's up." guh.... "Not much was my response.." So I'm chopping some stuff up.. and he goes to open the oven.. and there's a hint of burning.. then I hear... "Shit.......... [poke around in the oven].... Fuck... [poke around in the oven]....... shit.." and the oven closes... and I hear him press a few buttons.  So I'm assuming he turned the oven off... How wrong of me to assume... he turned the oven up 10 degrees.  Ok... fine.  whatever.  Doesn't really surprise me anymore..

Now... onto the water boiler... because you know how I love talking about the water boiler.. so I'm mixing up some eggs and he goes over to fill his little pot with some hot water... fine, already knew he did that.. but what was really amazing was he opened the top to see if it was full... I had just refilled it five minutes ago because I was drinking tea... but he opens the top and closes it. then he opens it up again and gives it a good hard look like it's not supposed to be full.. but it is.. so he closes it and fills his pot up... but then he goes over to the sink and adds cold water from the tap.  What the hell!? So he goes and tosses his broccoli in the pot and turns the heat up on High.. and it starts to boil...

So my cooking is done at this point.. and his broccoli looks like it's going to turn yellow.  But I think I figured out why he uses the water from the water boiler... the dude is like.. a germaphobe.. he hates germans... No. but really. that totally makes sense to me.. or I don't know.. it's still a puzzle to me.