2984. Eggs for breakfast © Bruce Goodman 4 February 2024

Eloise prepared meals for just on a hundred elderly residents at the Retirement Village. She loved the job. She liked to be a little creative at times to make meals interesting for the residents. Usually however they didn’t too much like the routine of meals to be interrupted by creativity unless it was a festal celebration of some sort. Breakfast on a Tuesday was a couple of slices of toast with several varieties of toppings if so wished and two soft boiled eggs. Eloise had just risen around four in the morning and was about ready to go to work. The phone went. It was an emergency. Her mother had taken seriously ill. She would need to rush. Eloise woke her sixteen year old son, Rocky. He was a reliable lad. He knew how to boil an egg. He didn’t mind a bit of a challenge. Eloise explained: We need to cook two hundred eggs. Put a hundred eggs in one large pot and cover with water and a hundred in another large pot. Bring to the boil and cook for three minutes and then cool down with running cold water. In the meantime, toast and butter two hundred slices of bread. You don’t need to defrost the bread first. If I’m not back by then put a plate, knife, teaspoon, eggcup, two eggs, two slices of buttered toast, and some jam on each tray and start serving! “No sweat!” said Rocky. He began and worked pretty fast and efficiently. He soon had a hundred eggs in each pot. He covered the eggs with water and they began to heat. What a huge pile the broken egg shells made on the bench! Contact Author Back to Index Next Story Previous Story