I’ve realized I am really bothered by passive voice in cleaning with people I live with. “I am going to do the dishes tonight” - great “Eric, would you take out the trash tonight please?” - that’s fine! I probably would have taken it out if I had realized it was full. I’m an adult and this is my house, I try to keep it clean. “We need to clean up around here!” - What does that mean? Do you want me to clean? Are you going to clean? I thought things were pretty clean, is there something specific that needs cleaning?
Also me and my mom can’t live together because we do dishes differently. I am a “fill and start the dishwasher” person and she is a “Empty the sink” kind of person.
Put the dirty dishes in the sink, not on the counter.
Put the utensils aside so bowls and plates can stack.
Unpopular opinion maybe, but my peeve is when men stand to pee. It gets everywhere and is so disgusting. Every weekend when I’m bleaching the walls and everything in the “splash zone” it irks me that guys won’t also just sit to pee.
I have a related peeve.
Dishwashers are not dish storage. When the machine is done, you put the fucking dishes away.
Sinks are not dirty dish storage. You put the dirties in the fucking dishwasher so that your sink is fucking clean. The sink is where you either wash things, or get your fresh water. There is no good reason for your fucking nasty ass dishes to be sitting in there for hours or (worse) days. Don’t put your fucking milk glass in there with water up grow fucking bacterial cultures. Wash the fucking thing, or put it in the dishwasher.
Lazy motherfuckers fucking up my sink will get a blast of hell so fucking hot, it cooks their bowels. Jesus fucking Christ, were you motherfuckers raised in a fucking garbage dump? What the actual fuck?
Out of anywhere in the fucking kitchen to keep fucking spotless it’s the fridge and the sink. You don’t shit where you get your water, and you don’t piss where you store your food. Fucking barbarians.
You feeling bad today? Sorry, me too, my crippled ass isn’t going to fucking wash your shit again, get the fuck back in the fucking kitchen and handle shit.
I swear to fucking gods, people are fucking nasty. I’ve dumped three gorgeous women because they just couldn’t understand that keeping a clean kitchen is central to good health and a well run home. And a clean kitchen is centered around not letting food rot and grow shit!.
Back years ago, my and my best friend lived together, and we kept shit right. Every fucking time we’d try and get extra roommates to control costs, that shit is what kept it from working. Motherfuckers gonna leave shit sitting in my pristine sink I just fucking scrubbed and not think they’re getting booted. My hairy, chapped ass
So it turns out my pet peeve is when people misuse the phrase “passive voice”. Huh, who’d have known?
she is a “Empty the sink” kind of person.
What does this mean?
You have a sink full of dishes. OP loads the dishwasher with as much as he can fit and runs it and considers the chore done. His mom doesn’t consider the dishes done until the whole sink is empty.
Okay but the trouble rose because my sisters took advantage of this system. We would take turns, and my sisters would “empty” the sink when it would only fill the dishwasher up to like half. Then it would flip to my turn. Then shenanigans would happen to make sure on my turns the sink would be extra full. So I would either need to hand wash a ton, or do a second load in the dishwasher, which would give chance for people to put more stuff in the sink.
If the system was “Your turn is up when the dishwasher is full and running” then there is far little room for silliness when it comes to turns.
I use the word pet peeve on purpose, should I care “that much” about it? Especially now as a 29 YO adult that owns his own home? No, clearly not… and yet.
