Eagle and Snail

"Do you want to put the kitchen on fire?"

Alexander was standing in front of the store trying to cut the vegetables while the gas was on. Oliver could see the smoke coming up as soon as he entered the room.

'I just went to pick up a call and now I have to call firefighters.'

Oliver turned off the gas as he looked at Alexander with narrowed eyes. "You're doing it wrong. You should not be chopping it like this."

Oliver interrupted for the nth time. He could not believe how silly a person might be at times. 

Oliver always thought that Alexander was an intelligent man who would understand simple instructions promptly and follow them accurately. But who would have thought that this man was an idiot in cooking? 

"I am doing it just the way you told me to," Alexander said, losing his patience. 

Alexander could not understand at work time of the day he asked Oliver to teach him to cook. 

'It was the worst mistake of my life.'