Another Funny Story

So as I was talking to my mom on Skype this morning, I realize that I'd never written about this little occurrence that happened last week.

As you know if you've been reading my blog, I've been working in the kitchen with a blind ex chef, Memo. He has pretty much no fear despite his disability. He's worked in a kitchen all his life and the whole phrase "I could do it with my eyes shut" is how he lives every day.

This being said, it was my first day in the kitchen with Memo. We work with gas stove tops at La Raza. I personally had only used one once before coming to Mexico. One of the ranges lights itself, but the other range you have to light with a lighter. Well, all of the first set of burners were filled this particular morning. I was cutting up something on one side of the kitchen not paying much attention to what Memo was doing. I thought he was stirring something. All of the sudden I hear a FFWOOOSHFF. I look over and the flame is so big that it is swallowing the pan in tongues of orange and yellow. Memo is standing there about to catch on fire and is feeling for the pan, looks back in my direction, and asks, "Did it light yet?" I run over there to turn it down telling Memo, "Yes! Yes! Back up! Wait a second! You're not going to have any eyebrows." All the time Memo is just standing there with his little smile on his face. And that is how our work together began. It's been an adventure. From then on, I always stepped in to light the burners.