To think that 2 pieces of toast does not warrant using a farkin dinner plate??!

[theUrbanDryad]

dh always uses a dinner plate for his 2 pieces of morning toast. why can't he get it through his head that a small plate would do? it's more washing up for me!

also - why can't he put his dirty washing in the washing basket, rather than flinging it in the general direction? i don't even care that much if he does it with his clothes (means they don't get washed though) but he does it with ds' as well and it drives me up the farking wall!!

and - when i ask him about these things - why does he think it's ok to accuse me of "attacking" him and go into injured sulk mode for most of the evening??

ARRRRRRRRRRGH!

ah, that feels better.

but, AIBU?

I do all toast related spreading and cutting on the plate, otherwise I have to wipe the chopping board.

but it's much easier to wipe the chopping board than it is to run a sink full of hot water, wash plate, dry plate, put plate away (not to mention the tedium of getting the plate out in the first place!!)

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YABU - Dinner plate is surely no extra washing up, and it means less crumbs will fall on the table, thereby saving time on wiping up the crumbs.

Like it, wheresmysuntan!

YABU

and I too hate dishwashers!! Prefer to know the washing-up is done properly and the only way you can do that is by hand!

I have to say it makes me smile when wives/girlfriends moan about things their other half does and doesn't do! It's not as if any of us are perfect all the time either!

If DH does something I don't like, I ask him really nicely if he'd mind not doing it or being careful next time etc and then tell him the next moan is on him!!

Mind you having just read that list perhaps I'm one of the lucky ones cos only No.14 applies to DH

See, if you were my mother you'd be pleased. Her theory is that the smaller the plate the more crumbs there are to clear up off surfaces and carpet. Men can't win really.

I don't think washing up a big plate is that much more effort than a small one is it? It just looks worse in the washing up pile.

Why has one of my posts just disappeared!?!

I said about not ringing DH and discussing over dinner if I thought there was a real problem with something - and it was there one moment, then gone the next!!

Are we limited to number of posts in a row we put on a thread?

Urban Dryad - no plate is worse than a big plate. DS is French and was brought up without plates at breakfast. We end up with jam or nutella and crumbs on the kitchen table which is harder work to clean than a plate.

Could I expand this topic to using inappropriate crockery in general?

My DH drives me mad by using the best dinner bowls for random things such as, oh, storing the screws he removed from his computer thingy, going down to the allotment to collect tomatoes, storing broken pieces of another bowl which he will get around to glueing together one day, etc etc.

Whenever I kindly suggest that he uses a collander or basket for picking veg, or one of our vast collection of plastic bowls for storing spare parts instead of the BEST CHINA fgs he looks at me as if I'm barking mad.

( I'm not, am I?)

I always use a dinner plate for toast as the bread is too big for a side plate when it is laid side by side! The dinner plate also stops those crumbs from spilling over the sides!

IMO, YABU but I'm with you about men in general!

but there's no need to use a dinner plate! i don't need to use a dinner plate, and i don't get more crumbs all over the shop than he does (less, actually) i just don't see why he has to do it.

did i mention he also leaves tiny shaving hairs in the bathroom sink? i went through a phase of leaving my own shavings in the bath to see if he'd notice, but i had to clen them out! i mean, how long does it take to swish some water round the sink so your teeny tiny hairs go down the plughole? huh??? huh!!!!???

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YANBU!!

Thought i'd add my twopence worth in your support.

We have 4 dinner plates, 4 side plates and 4 bowls. DS will use a dinner plate for 2 bits of toast. Then he will get hungry later and use another dinner plate for yet more toast. I get home from work and go to cook dinner, but ooh! no dinner plates!! I then have to get DS to wash up the dinner plates, whilst whinging at him that a side plate would have done the job.

So i know exactly where you are coming from!

But think of all the things that you do that must really piss him off. You're not perfect, don't expect him to be. The poor bloke must feel as if he can't do anything right.

I, on the other hand, am perfect and bristles in the sick fucks me off

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bristles in the sick? you're right, i'm sure i piss him off too, for example, he claims i leave the lids off jars (i don't) so i know i'm not perfect (allegedly)

so, for the sake of harmonious living, this is how i'd make toast:

1. put bread in toaster
2. get small plate, place on chopping board (which is handily located next to the toaster)
3. put 1 slice toast on board, 1 slice on plate. butter.
4. put both slices of toast on plate
5. eat

see? simple!

Mary - yes, but i wouldn't care how many farking plates he used, if he did the washing up. he doesn't. i do. i don't go into his office and mess up his papers, because i choose to, so why should he choose to make my job harder?