Cereal Adjustment

Deciding to eat healthier breakfasts, I declared to my wife that oatmeal would now be my cereal of choice.
But after eating my first bowl, I told my wife, "I hope I develop a taste for the stuff. It goes down real rough."
"Well," she asked, "how long did you cook it?"
"You're supposed to cook it?" I replied.
That's when she left the kitchen . . . laughing uncontrollably . . .
Originally published September 22, 2005.