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Subject: Oscar & Felix live! Author: Willie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 02:52:58 11/20/02 Wed When my father washes dishes he misses the point. I mean, surely the idea of washing dishes is to CLEAN them? Tom fills a basin with hot water and washing-up liquid, then he puts all the plates, all the cutlery and all the mugs in TOGETHER. He swirls them around a bit, offers some up to the scrubbing brush, then puts them on the draining board. The ritual then involves putting clean water into the basin and repeating the above, sans scrubbing ("to rinse that aul' soap off them.") Personally, I prefer a clean plate to a rinsed plate. So when my mug-handle is covered in egg yolk or the tine of my dinner fork is dirty it makes my teeth grind. What makes it twice as maddening is his sheer hatred of washing up to bring with. I make all the meals and wash the breakfast and dinner plates almost daily. He usually has two dirty plates representing teatime each evening (if I wasn't bored and decided to wash them before I left for the night), and he'll say next morning: "I had a huge pile of dishes to wash this morning?" A pile of two? He laughs at my insistence on using a clean teatowel: "I use a teatowel a few times. Willie uses one only once!" What he doesn't say is that he NEVER washes pots. (Not that he washes the cutlery or plates properly anyhow, but they at least go through the sheep-dip). I find saucepans a day or two after I've used them (and it was HIS turn to wash up). Usually they'll contain three-day old cabbage, or something else that stands your hair up when you open the lid. By the time I've washed and dried those, it's time for a new teatowel to go on the rack. (In case anyone doesn't get the reference in the Thread's title, Oscar & Felix were the two characters in "The Odd Couple.") [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]