Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for June 26, 2018

Tony asked, about 2 hours ago

Do you witness?

Yes – but I don’t snitch.

BTW: I clean the plates (bones, left-overs etc.), but I don’t rinse them before. But I do know how to chose the dishwasher’s program doing that for me!

My dishwasher instructions say don’t rinse before packing, it just wastes water.

Couples can agree on savings, spending, religion, buying a house, changing jobs… even having a baby.

But let them near a dishwasher… and BOOM!

Instant arguments.

Seems like every couple has one pre-cleaner and one dirty-loader;

sometimes as close as just a scraper and a non-scraper…

but sometimes there’s war between a total pre-scrubber against a full-on dishwasher-as-garbage-disposal advocate.

I knew a woman who took all the dishes out, rinsed and re-loaded them after every time her husband filled the dishwasher….

yet complained if he wouldn’t take his turn.

And a man who examined every plate afterward, and showed his wife every tiny speck that didn’t get removed because she didn’t rinse well enough….

even though he never washed dishes or loaded the machine.

(His God-given role was drying, and in later years, unloading.)

Plus, there are the plates in a row vs plates facing inward crowd…

Utensils up, utensils down, alternating, sideways…

Glasses on the tines or between them, small bowls on the bottom rack or not allowed there…

Platters snatched from between dishes and put behind them, accompanied by loud scolding.

Sharp knives, pots and pans, wineglasses…. what goes in and what doesn’t.

You’d think people were dying.

I’ve never owned a dishwasher… though I’ve used plenty.

I was trained by my ex-in-laws at an early age, and my then-mother-in-law washed everything well enough to re-use, in hot water with detergent, before running the machine to “sanitize” them..

My engineer father-in-law could fit in dozens more items after she considered it full, and taught me the exact angle at which every piece must be placed.

I always did it their way, but I’ve lightened up….

Now I just say “how would you like it?”

After all…. I probably won’t be there tomorrow.

Sure I witness…..me washing dishes by hand, I don’t have a dishwasher.

Hubby and I don’t rinse before loading, but a lady who sometimes ‘helps’ to load the dishwasher at church squirts liquid soap on a sponge and swipes each plate before she puts it into the machine – and will try to grab the ones I’ve already loaded to do them, too. Beats me.

If you rinse, might as well wash!

Has anyone seen that commercial on TV where the little girl tells what her mom does before loading the dishwasher? Then she asks what a dishwasher is for if not to wash those dishes. I haven’t ever rinsed dishes before loading them into the dishwasher. I do scrape off larger bits. My dishwashers have always done the rest of the job well. Why waste water and/or soap when it is really NOT necessary?

Daughter went to college and roomed off campus with a couple of girls. I guess none of them knew how to operate a DW. Short story————— they used liquid dish detergent, fired up the DW are flooded the place with soap bubbles.

I may have rinsed, but didn’t put them in a dishwasher I haven’t got.