When have you, fortunately or unfortunately, been proved right?
DH was very insistent on having a wood worktop in our new kitchen. I told him I didn't want it, that we were just weren't clean and tidy enough to look after it and do the maintenance it needed and that he would have to do the re-oiling of it because it was his decision to have such a high-maintenance surface.
About 9 months in, DD put a hot pan on it and made a burn mark, and nearly two years in the colour is heavily worn away around the hob and the sink because he hasn't oiled it anything like enough. I have tried to wipe up spills and keep in dry around the sink etc and once in desperation when he wasn't keeping to the oiling schedule in the first few months we had it, I even tried it myself, but did such a horrible job I have sworn never to do it again, especially as I said I wouldn't do it in the first place given I didn't want the damn thing.
We're going to have to shell out for a new worktop in a year or two, aren't we? 