Has this ever happened to you?

tm37

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DILBERT BLOG

This happened to me once (that I am aware) and it is the one good thing about not having a dishwasher
Helping
Yesterday I ?helped? by taking the dishes out of the dishwasher and putting them in the cupboard. I did all of the plates and cups and glasses and bowls first. Then I put away the larger serving spoons and odds and ends. The last step was the flatware.

But some of the flatware was clearly unwashed.

Oh ******.

All of the other dishes were clean. Or at least cleanish. But these two butter knives had butter on them. I had two theories:

1. The dishwasher had run but someone later put a few dirty butter knives in there by mistake.

2. None of the dishes were clean and I had put them back in the cupboards.

This sort of thing never happens if I?m the one who loaded the dishwasher in the first place because I don?t first rinse everything. I put dishes in there dirty and proud, so you know when the dishwasher has run. But these dishes COULD have been merely rinsed by someone more thorough.

I decided to leave the dirty flatware and just be quiet about the stuff I put away, under the theory that it would be better if I never knew how many dirty dishes I had put away and later reused. This theory was working great until?

Shelly: ?Why is the dishwasher empty except for these dirty forks and knives and spoons??

Me: ?Um?Because everything else was washed??

Shelly: ?I don?t think so. I think it was all dirty. What happened to all of those dirty dishes??

Me? ?Um?I?m pretty sure the rest of that stuff was totally clean. So?I?put it away.?

Shelly: ?Even Molly?s bowl??

Now at this point in the story you have to know that Molly is my mother-in-law?s dog who was visiting before Christmas. Molly?s temporary dog bowl was one of our everyday bowls. That meant there was a 1-in-4 chance that I would be the one who ended up eating cereal out of the dog?s dirty (yet rinsed!) bowl.

So I caved in and unloaded all of the dirty dishes from the cupboards back to the dishwasher ? at least the ones I remembered.

My long term goal is to develop such a reputation for household incompetence that I am never again asked to do anything around the house. So far my plan is right on track.

 

Bootprint

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He just better hope his wife doesn't think he has alzheimer and put him into a home.
 

slag

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I've done that a couple times this past year. once i left everything... and ate out for a week while my wife and kids ate at home. I would intentionally stay late at work so i would have to pick something up from a restaurant.

The other time, i pulled the cups, bowls, etc, i could remember out of the cupboard and rewashed them as this guy did.
 

iamaelephant

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Who the fvck bothers to blog about this crap? And why do people actually care enough to read blogs about such mundane, everyday bullsh!t?
 

HaxorNubcake

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Originally posted by: slag
I've done that a couple times this past year. once i left everything... and ate out for a week while my wife and kids ate at home. I would intentionally stay late at work so i would have to pick something up from a restaurant.

The other time, i pulled the cups, bowls, etc, i could remember out of the cupboard and rewashed them as this guy did.

hahahahahahha what a great family member. Leave the kids and wife to use the dirty dishes. :laugh:
 

biggestmuff

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Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Who the fvck bothers to blog about this crap? And why do people actually care enough to read blogs about such mundane, everyday bullsh!t?

...uh...don't you have a blog?
 

iamaelephant

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Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Who the fvck bothers to blog about this crap? And why do people actually care enough to read blogs about such mundane, everyday bullsh!t?

...uh...don't you have a blog?

That's not a blog. It's a website I put together so me and my friends can stay in touch with one another while we are scattered all over the world. Certainly not a blog.
 

Syringer

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Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Who the fvck bothers to blog about this crap? And why do people actually care enough to read blogs about such mundane, everyday bullsh!t?

...uh...don't you have a blog?

That's not a blog. It's a website I put together so me and my friends can stay in touch with one another while we are scattered all over the world. Certainly not a blog.

Do you have any idea what a blog is?
 

BoomerD

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Call it what you want, website, blog, pregnant elephant, it still serves the same purpose for you...;)
BTW, nice Christmas cactus on your home page...

I can relate to the rant in the OP. I did a very similar thing this year, when the dishwasher quit mid-cycle, and I didn't realize it...put away all the dishes, got ready to load the next batch (next day) and saw that the soap cup hadn't opened...YUCK...so, tried to remember all of what had been in that previous load...washed them PLUS another load just to be safe. Fortunately, I'm pretty anal about dish washing, and everything is almost clean enough to eat on before it goes into the machine anyway...
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Who the fvck bothers to blog about this crap? And why do people actually care enough to read blogs about such mundane, everyday bullsh!t?

It's scott adam's blog (the guy that writes dilbert)

Kinda a dave barry style of observations on all sorts of things. (normally pretty funny)

So to answer your question Scott Adams writes blogs on this crap ;)