“Congratulations! Is it true your bride learned to cook, years ago, at her mama’s knee?”

“Yeah,” Jim said without enthusiasm.

“What’s wrong?”

“Polly’s perfect with shortbread and shortcakes but for everything else she only makes a half recipe. In hindsight, I reckon she ought to have stood on a chair.”

John H. Dromey has a rather short (but complete) story reprinted in the anthology Timeshift: Tales of Time (Shacklebound Books, 2018).