AIBU for being asked if I’m going to be much longer cooking my dinner

[Sillysausagesarah]

Started to cook my dinner tonight. Lodger comes down and asked “are you going to be much longer”. Literally had just platted my food. I don’t know why I’m finding it rude. He never cooks and today he is

I wouldn’t ask him if he will spend much longer in the kitchen, because the kitchen is big enough for us both…. And if I was to say “yeah I’ll be about 2 hours” do I expect him to wait?

I would presume if you said 2 hours then he would ask if you minded him also cooking but if you said 10 minutes then he wold have waited.

He just wanted to know how much longer you would be! Once he had that information, he could decide his next step. If you had said, 'a while, I'm just eating this then going to start on making pudding' he may have decided to leave you to it and shower or asked to share the kitchen. If you had said, 'I've just served up so all done' he may have made a different decision.

I regularly ask people if they would be much longer. That's literally all I want to know. There is nothing implied, no emotion behind it, no judgement. I want facts. How much longer do you expect that you will be doing this task?That is all.

I think it's weird asking you if you'll be much longer when he must have clearly seen you had already plated up your dinner.

That makes me think he was implying you were taking ages as he could literally see you were done.