Pet Peeves: The Dishes Peeve

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If there is one reoccurring pattern with my pet peeves, it’s that I hate it when people waste either: meaningless bits of money, and/or meaningless amounts of time. The dishes peeves quite literally stems from my trigger to meaningless waste of time.

Growing up, I didn’t have a dish washer. I take this as a good thing now, since I can wash my dishes by hand (and it possibly saves water and electricity and everything I don’t know that comes with a dish washer). I mean, I did have a dish washer, just that it broke when I was a little kid. Fun, I know. So the logical thing is that you let the dishes dry on a rack, or you take a towel and wipe off the excess water and put it back where it’s supposed to go.

Here’s the thing about this process: you can just pile them up and not wipe off excess water with a towel until something eventually breaks. The thing is, my mother always told us not to pile it up and put the dishes away. So we followed instructions because it was logical and we were fairly good kids. Sometimes, there was the person who wiped excess water and put the dishes back where they belong, and sometimes there was a person washing dishes at the same time.

We weren’t that big a family, you see. You can probably get away with not putting dishes away for one meal and just letting it dry on the rack. This is where it annoys me. People washing and piling up a wet dish on top of dry ones. That just wasted some time. You can just take those dry dishes, put them back within 2 minutes, and someone decides to wash some miscellaneous dish that just wasted a few hours of natural evaporation, which then causes the time to put the dishes (now a bit wet) to become two times the time it would’ve taken. And then the dishes piled up on the rack because the only two people putting away the dishes were me and my mother and I sure wasn’t going to go through the hassle of wiping off excess water with a towel when I could’ve not. My mother, I cannot talk for her, but she was okay using a towel.

Talking about which, I have a pet peeve that is somewhat related to my pet peeve of my overall issue with dry dishes and wet dishes. So, I’m washing the dishes, my mother’s drying and putting away dishes. What does she do? Not put away the utensils. So that portion is just piling up and she’s looking like it doesn’t exist and doesn’t even touch them. This is unforgivable. Because forks can poke my skin, and also because it’s annoying to pile them in such a small section. And by utensils, I also mean cooking tools, which is also kind of annoying because they’re so big. Now, something about my family and their weirdness, they act like utensils don’t exist in dish washing. Period. My siblings, even if they wash their dishes, will not wash their utensils. What in the world is with them and the utensils? I have no clue. Who’s the one that had to wash and put away the majority of them utensils that doesn’t exist in their minds? Me and possibly my father. On a blue moon, my mother, perhaps.

Of course, I was lazy and did not put away dishes at times. That made my pet peeve unable to wash the dishes, which in turn caused my mother to be annoyed with me. I just didn’t understand why she didn’t understand what a waste of time adding water to dry dishes was. She didn’t understand, even when I explained to her vaguely why I didn’t wash dishes upon dry dishes. I like to think it was because she’s stubborn and has never experienced how easy it was to put away dry dishes. People are complex, and I’d like to think I don’t understand my mother as well as I do. I like to think I don’t understand people as well as I do (if I were to focus on them solely). But, well, I suppose I really don’t understand some people so that isn’t much of a problem believing.

Most of my pet peeves stem from them either being a waste of time, or a waste of money. Or both. I’m sure if you thought a lot about the little time wasted and the little money wasted, you would have more pet peeves than you initially had. Perhaps this pet peeve also wasted my energy needlessly, which might contribute to my pet peeve.

Anyhow, I should put away the dishes. I saw something in the sink.

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