To be irritated that DP never empties the dishwasher

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I know it’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things. But DP never empties the dishwasher. If I don’t do it he just adds more dirty plates to the clean ones and re washes the whole lot.

Drives me nuts. 🤬

What does he say about it? Isn't that just weird?

Yeah I think it’s really weird … Probably his most annoying habit. He just acts like it’s no big deal when I bring it up.

I would have to kill him.

I’m considering it 🤣

That would drive me demented! I'm sure there must be some mileage in seeing how far he would take it - if you didn't do it and just left everything, how full would he get it before having to concede defeat?

Adding dirty plates to clean ones and rewashing? Absolutely ridiculous, lazy, entitled, slopey-shouldered behaviour.

My DH never loads the dishwasher- he just stacks things on the top. Perhaps they should get together?

Oh no. That’s just as bad 🤦‍♀️

The dishwasher would probably break from the weight of all the pots in it before he would change his ways…

… Not to mention a needless waste of energy and water (i.e., money) and bad for the environment. Would an appeal to his ‘better nature’ on either of those grounds make an impact?

My DH used to claim that he couldn't tell whether or not the dishwasher was clean and needed to be unloaded or whether it was dirty and he could still put stuff in it. It drove me round the bend.

Apparently he also couldn't tell when it was already on and running a program and would just open the door, expressing shock when he got sprayed with water.

I pull him up on this bollocks every time and it has been slowly subsiding.

One day some years ago he did unload the dishwasher himself. He then just put his breakfast bowl in the sink and was about to leave it when I challenged him and asked why. He actually said that he didn't know whether it was free to put stuff in or waiting to be unloaded. He was very sheepish when I reminded him that HE had just unloaded it himself and asked him why he thought it wasn't free.

What is it with some men (it does seem to be mostly men) and dishwashers? DH grew up with a dishwasher, I didn't. He was supposedly used to loading and unloading them as he and his siblings were made to do that every mealtime. It didn't seem to stick in his head!