To think this is unhygienic and annoying?

[TrinidadQueen]

Sink is filled up with fresh water ready to do a round of washing up.
Someone comes along and drains pasta cooking water into the sink.

Please note this is lighthearted only!

Why is someone doing the washing up at the same time someone is cooking? You'll just get in each others way.

It's almost as annoying as when you fill the bowl to wash up and then someone uses the loo so you have to lift out the bowl for them to wash their hands (1950s house with tiny downstairs loo that doesn't have a sink).

Not everyone can afford to go out and buy a dishwasher, especially if that means you then have to remove a cupboard so there's space to put it when you already have limited cupboard space and you rent the house so can't start remodelling it willy-nilly.

@TroysMammy

What's worse is a bowl of washing up water left to go cold and people (I'm looking at you colleagues) just dump their empty mug in it. Then someone, usually me has to fish out the mugs from the icky cold water to fill the bowl with hot soapy water to wash them. Now that is also disgusting.

aaarrggghh, my pet hate!!

Or when people leave dirty dishes or mugs in the sink and you want to wash your hands/empty the pan water or whatever and have to carefully manoeuvre around the dishes so you don't empty the water in the washing up bowl.
Having this issue at work at the moment and I know the instant that I spill a bit of leftover soup or something in the washing up bowl, because it's very difficult to avoid, that someone will kick up a stink because the dishes now have soup water in them.
Well wash up your stuff then! 😠

@TroysMammy can't you just use a big spoon to knock the plug out of place so the sink drains then replace plug and refill sink with hot soapy water amid the cups? I used to do this when I worked in an office

This is why I have a sink and a half.

Where else could you drain the pasta though?

Not everyone can afford to go out and buy a dishwasher, especially if that means you then have to remove a cupboard so there's space to put it when you already have limited cupboard space and you rent the house so can't start remodelling it willy-nilly.

True, but you could buy a washing up bowl. £1.49 is probably not out of many family budgets.

@partyatthepalace I have literally never seen or heard of one of these and I might have room for one, so thanks for that .

indemMUND it's a washing up bowl unfortunately, perhaps a block capital passive agressive note is called for. I can't leave it for someone else either because I sometimes need to wash up the items I used lunch time.

@BackforGood

Not everyone can afford to go out and buy a dishwasher, especially if that means you then have to remove a cupboard so there's space to put it when you already have limited cupboard space and you rent the house so can't start remodelling it willy-nilly.

True, but you could buy a washing up bowl. £1.49 is probably not out of many family budgets.

We have a washing up bowl. 2 in fact. I was responding to those people who wrote, "Just get a dishwasher," as if it was the easiest thing in the world.

[quote Doingtheboxerbeat]@partyatthepalace I have literally never seen or heard of one of these and I might have room for one, so thanks for that .[/quote]
You'll be thrilled!

I know TwoZeroTwoZero, and I was making a suggestion to the OP and anyone else who puts their washing up directly into the sink then complains when someone else needs to use the sink.

Yes! My DH used to pour the end of his coffee in abs honestly I’d want to throw the mug at him for it ended up making space for a dishwasher so it’s less of a problem now!