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.
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.
