A Note on Dishes
// January 19th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Uncategorized
Kory’s been sick the past couple of days, and a somewhat minor effect of this is that I have to do the dishes. I know you may be surprised to hear that Kory is the dish-doer around here, but there it is. After living for two years in a college apartment that was perfectly adequate in every way save its lack of a dishwasher, I swore up and down that come hell or high water I would NEVER do dishes (manually) again. It’s worked out well so far. Everywhere I’ve lived since then has had a dishwasher … until now.
So poor Kory is stuck doing the washing and the drying. And now poor Kory is sick, so poor me is stuck doing the washing and the drying and the washing and the … well, you get the picture. So after three days of washing dishes, I finally threw in the proverbial towel and hightailed it to the grocery store to buy paper plates, paper bowls and plastic cups. “But the environment!” you may gasp. Well, let me tell you this. I don’t know how they did it in the olden days. Maybe that was before the internet was around and so people had nothing better to do than to wash the Best China by hand after every meal. But I would rather eat off banana leaves rinsed in dew than scrub dirty flatware three times a day.
And that is my final answer.
