I love my husband. Honest I do. He's kind and sweet, he's handsome and loves animals. Really, he's a great guy.
But all great guys, let's face it all great PEOPLE do have some shortcomings. Look, even I snore.
Oh those shortcomings. I came home from work sick yesterday, basic flu-like symptoms, achy, tummy, sleepy. He did great for me. For some reason all I wanted to eat was a turkey sandwich from my favorite sandwich shop nearby, he got me the sandwich and even threw in some of their awesome matzoh ball soup.
He's a helper bee when I need him to pitch in, yuppers. While I hunkered down in bed with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (I wasn't feeling well but I was well enough to watch Triple D) he was busying himself downstairs with important things like making his own dinner and using up every available bowl in the kitchen (see early post regarding knives and forks).
We have an old house; we've lovingly upgraded most of it except for the expensive stuff…the kitchen and the bathrooms. Yeah, we'll get to those rooms eventually but for now, we can live with it. What does it mean? Well it means that we have this silly dishwasher that we have to roll over to the sink, hook a hose up the faucet, plug it in and let 'er rip. Ya know what though, it's better than no dishwasher at all.
Darling hubby just cannot quite "get" this though. The instructions are clear, you've gotta turn the water on full for this whole thing to work.
Of course hubby's level of helpfulness doesn't extend to getting up at 6AM to care for the dogs so that meant me crawling out of the sack at 6AM and finding that the dishwasher had been run last night. Oh happy me…but wait, why was the water only opened a small amount? Huh? Uh-oh…
The inside of the dishwasher revealed still-wet dishes but also some baked on dishwasher liquid. Seems there was enough water to get enough of the dishes wet but not quite enough to prevent the dishes from being left dripping in caked on Cascade.
I wondered why the dishes were still damp? Why didn't they dry? Oh wait, let's take a look-see at the control buttons…yuppers, somehow hubby had managed to hit a bunch of wonky buttons on the control panel, it was set to wash pots 'n' pans with no heat dry. Awesome.
How does this happen? Seriously. Hook up the hose, assure the water is on FULL, plug in the appliance, make sure the settings are correct and hit GO.
What did this mean to me? It meant un-caking the Cascade from the dishes and re-running the whole mess with water on FULL and settings adjusted.
And of course, it was still up to me to empty it when it finished it's cycle…the second time around.
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