it_seemed_like_a_good_idea_at_the_time raze you want to ask how it is for him. living alone in the mobile home he calls a pop can, with a neighbour he can't stop poking and a son-in-law who doesn't know what's good for him. dog and wife two decades dead. nest egg cracked and cooked and gone. more years behind him now than ahead. talk turns to his deep fryer. you ask if he's ever made french fries or drowned a chicken breast in oil hot enough to strip skin from the bone. no, he says. once, he deep fried a whole head of cauliflower and ate it in a single sitting. he felt florets flicker like white flames in the swollen snake of his small intestine. it seemed like a good idea at the time. now he's trying to sell the thing. 240428 what's it to you? who go blather from