Loading a dish washer - why is it so difficult for some?

[tinman0]

My niggling gripe right now is the inability of my family to load a dish washer.

Unfortunately, I'm exiled from the US so I'm back at my parents for a bit. There are a few of us siblings still at our parents for various reasons. We're all leaving, honest!

But it's the dishwasher that gets me.

I don't know how the others do it, but 2 cups, 1 plate and a pan can fill the whole dishwasher. It's some sort of frigging skill they all seem to have.

They moan that the dishwasher has to go on twice a day. Well frankly, it's surprising it doesn't do every frigging fork, knife and plate individually.

The other evening's mind bender was the pizza plate. IT DOESN'T FIT THE FECKING DISHWASHER! I just want to crack that plate into the wall. Job solved. But why do we have something that won't even fit in the wretched device! And heaven help the f*cker who used it who leaves it to fester for a couple of days. WASH YOUR FRIGGING PLATE YOU ANIMAL.

And this evening's WTF moment is trying to work out how the dishwasher went on with only two cups in it. All the other dirty dishes are sitting on top of the fecking dishwasher, is it that fking difficult to put them in the dishwasher before starting said dishwasher?

I'm not like my wife, the darling MrsT who will repack our dishwasher at home after I've packed it. I don't pack it badly at all, it's just that she packs it better.

I don't know how she does it, but by the time she's repacked it - it is a work of art. The whole kitchen fits in the dishwasher. I mean, even if it didn't need washing, it's in the dishwasher. And not untidy, oh no, she has proper full on OCD. I mean the cups are set at 30degree angles, the knives are lined up, and the spoons are sorted on the days usage. You just stare in disbelief at how she managed to get the cooker in the dishwasher - she's that good.

But at my parents, there is the battlefield of the dishwasher and how not to fit things in it.

Loading a dishwasher is like Tetris, you would even think my parents are rubbish at Tetris - they're not. We had to get rid of our Super NES because they wore out 6 controllers and we couldn't find any new ones for it!

But when it comes to any of them loading the dishwasher - hopeless.

I wouldn't mind, but I loaded it earlier - AND SOME fkER TOOK STUFF OUT OF IT!!!!

I've tried to figure out who the culprit is, but i'm coming to the conclusion the house has a Dishwasher Ghost. Who likes to repack it ramdonly. Or who sits on the shoulder and tells you that dinner plates can go across the upper part where cups go. Or that cups can be put in the normal way up, rather than upside down.

So does anyone else suffer from badly loaded dishwashers? AND WHY THE fk IS THE CUTLERY IN TWO SIDES OF THE KITCHEN???? Knives on one side, and forks and spoons on the other side???

Only 9 months left. Only 9 months left. Only 9 months left. sigh.

[Balmoral Green]

We don't actually have one, I'm not over keen on washing up, but I've never felt the need for one. It doesn't take very long to wash up and leave stuff to drain. Is this rare?

I can identify with your rant though. I can fit four times as much in our fridge and cupboards as can Mrs BG, and with lots of room to spare.

I do like the sound of your Mrs though, my kind of OCD

Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 16th April 20:06

[eldar]

I feel your pain. Load the bloody thing properly, its not hard, and saves time and money. Also stops you getting botulism.

[don4l]

I'm a bit confused.

Have you left your wife in the US?

If so, why? You need to get her over here quick.


Don
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ETA I've just had a look in our dishwasher. Umm... it does look rather complicated.

Edited by don4l on Friday 16th April 20:22

[An Oasis]

eldar said:

I feel your pain. Load the bloody thing properly, its not hard, and saves time and money. Also stops you getting botulism.

+1 from me, drives me nuts when other lesser being pack ours, how can anyone find such a simple task difficult?

[Scott330ci]

Homes Gardens and DIY

lol

[tinman0]

don4l said:

Have you left your wife in the US?

Lol, only just married her haha. Sorting out my K-3 visa which will take a few months. I have been told straight by USCIS that I will be denied entry to the US if I set foot in the country without the right visa. No more Visa Waiver Program for me (spent nearly 10 months on 4 of them last year).

[tinman0]

Scott330ci said:

Homes Gardens and DIY

sigh. it's a rant ffs. i really hate PH some times.

thread death.

[Bullett]

My Mrs can't load the dishwasher either.

But the thing that really fecks me off is when she half or three quarter unloads it. So I go to put my plates in and it's half full so I leave them in. I then get told off because you need to empty it first.

So why the fk did you only do 3/4 of the job? If you don't have time to finish don't start. If it's full when I go to load I'll know it needs emptying and empty it.

Argh.

[stemll]

tinman0 said:

I don't know how she does it, but by the time she's repacked it - it is a work of art. The whole kitchen fits in the dishwasher. I mean, even if it didn't need washing, it's in the dishwasher. And not untidy, oh no, she has proper full on OCD. I mean the cups are set at 30degree angles, the knives are lined up, and the spoons are sorted on the days usage.

Oooh, just you wait 'til I tell her what you wrote (except that I suspect she'd agree with you).

That said, Mrs Stemll falls into your original rant scenario. By the time I repack it, it has twice as much stuff in it (and with 2 under 5's using plates and cups galore there's a lot of "stuff".

Also, just noticed : 9 month exile! They could clone a new one of you in that time (hmm, maybe they are).

[The Riddler]

I live with parents (still!) And they are incapable of loading the dishwasher, or if they do they make sure they do it as loudly as possible when i'm in bed. (I work nights.)

[tinman0]

stemll said:

tinman0 said:

I don't know how she does it, but by the time she's repacked it - it is a work of art. The whole kitchen fits in the dishwasher. I mean, even if it didn't need washing, it's in the dishwasher. And not untidy, oh no, she has proper full on OCD. I mean the cups are set at 30degree angles, the knives are lined up, and the spoons are sorted on the days usage.

Oooh, just you wait 'til I tell her what you wrote (except that I suspect she'd agree with you).

That said, Mrs Stemll falls into your original rant scenario. By the time I repack it, it has twice as much stuff in it (and with 2 under 5's using plates and cups galore there's a lot of "stuff".

Also, just noticed : 9 month exile! They could clone a new one of you in that time (hmm, maybe they are).

She knows what I think of her dishwasher packing ability. I'll take a photograph for you. It really is high level OCD at work.

And she doesn't deny it either. She'll roll her eyes as she does, but inside, she's secretly very proud

My only problem is when unpacking stuff - I still don't know where half of it goes.

[chris1roll]

tinman0 said:

Scott330ci said:

Homes Gardens and DIY

sigh. it's a rant ffs. i really hate PH some times.

thread death.

I reckon the autonomods work on keywords in the title - perhaps if your title was simply, "Why is it so difficult?" it would have been left.

[tinman0]

Bullett said:

But the thing that really fecks me off is when she half or three quarter unloads it. So I go to put my plates in and it's half full so I leave them in. I then get told off because you need to empty it first.

Yeah, that gets me as well. I especially love the bit where someone says - "oh the dishwasher hasn't been on yet". Yet it's loaded properly for once. Why? Why couldn't you put it on?

This morning, my coffee pot that had been put in the dishwasher was on the other side of the kitchen "Oh it wouldn't fit" "WELL IT BLOODY FIT LAST NIGHT???"