"The cookies are burning!" Stephanie yells from the kitchen, pulling the charred gingerbread cookies out of the oven. Your girlfriend let out a defeated snort.

The batifamily Christmas dinner was in an hour, Stephanie had agreed to bring cookies but now the cookies were ruined. She hadn't even finished dressing up yet, the cookies were all burnt and the icing she had made to decorate them had solidified because she hadn't read the instructions properly and left it uncovered for too long.

The whole thing was a mess.