To go mad at dp for putting a fly swatter ON THE COOKER!!?

[OhWesternWind]

Yuk yuk yuk. And it had bits of dead fly mashed up in it. And he thinks this is OKAY!!

Um, can you not wash the cooker? And do you actually put food on the cooker? Personally I use a pot/pan/whatever. No food actually touches the cooker.

So, yes, YABU.

that is filthy, why cant he just pop it outside or on the floor?? Think about what flies eat...don't think i'd like that in my kitchen much thanks

YANBU - on top of the filth (not just that the pots etc touch the fly muck but then they get moved onto a worktop and then that has all the nasty stuff on, but probably invisible to naked eye at this point).

Also good chance that fly swat is plastic and cooker top could be hot and you'd end up with fire hazard.

You obviously haven't seen my cooker . If you had, you'd suddenly not have a problem with this. I keep INTENDING to clean it. (admittedly it's not squashed flies, but it's minging with old food caked on!)

What a boakworthy thing to do. I sometimes put plates on the cooker, when the dishwasher hasn't quite dried them; bits of mashed fly would not be welcome.

I swat the flies with a rubber glove and drop them in my venus flytrap.

For some reason I have a lot less of a problem with old food than dead flies - some bizarre conception of "clean" muck versus "dirty" muck. Don't ask.

OMG - YANBU that is disgusting... I wont even have a flyswot in the house - minging things they are!!!

TE2072 - yes, but then you move the pot to another surface, which has food put on it and you transfer the dead fly guck around the kitchen and into/onto plates, food etc... fly swots should not be in the kitchen.

Well, I an assuming he swatted the fly in the kitchen, so I hope the OP disinfected her entire kitchen because who knows where that fly landed before meeting the swatted.

YABU, get a grip. Where do you think he swatted it?

My flyswatter is in my kitchen because, er, that's where the flies tend to head. And (shock horror) I don't disinfect my worksurface every time one lands, and I can't see much difference between remnants of fly in a swatter and fly feet that have been treading in all sorts.

I clean my surfaces several times a day, but really, I'm more likely to eat food from there than the cooker top anyway.

I don't put the swatter on the surface or cooker top, and would say to DH that I'd prefer him not to if he did, but really, 'go mad' at him? Very ott.

Food doesn't touch the cooker or worksurface and the cooker and worksurface get wiped every day, so I don't see that it's a problem.

YABU it's really not a big deal...