We're going to run short of cups today

[HallFloor]

DH has come to tell me the DW didn't run properly last night so we're going to have to manage without cups today.

The man has a busy important job

Can he go shopping for more cups?

Dh said this to me once. He uses a seperate cup for each cup of tea.I don’t.

One cup one spoon!

He wasn't bringing the problem to me to solve. He was fully intending to manage until after the next scheduled running of the DW this evening.

He thought of that all by himself? isn't he the big decision making man then!

@HallFloor

He wasn't bringing the problem to me to solve. He was fully intending to manage until after the next scheduled running of the DW this evening.

Wait you have a dishwasher schedule?! I need to know more.

Add resource management to that chaps C.V. stat!

So you can't put the dishwasher on until this evening ....

I once read on here, that a woman was fuming,she had put the dishwasher on, and then found two stray teaspoons lurking,that her Husband had left out somewhere, and now she had to wait for the next wash to put them in the machine. Amazingly stupid, !

Woah - off topic slightly but do people actually take a clean cup everytime they have a cup of tea? I use one cup all day - does that mean I'm a splatters?

Always a clean cup, because they have sludge in from our cheapo teabags.

I know that whenever DH uses the passive tense it means that whatever it is is his fault. So my coffee carafe disappeared and I asked if he'd seen it and he said "it got broken" and I knew it was him as otherwise he would have named the culprit, eg "DS broke it".

So, "the dishwasher didn't run" would mean that he put it on but then didn't close the door properly or something.

I generally let it slide as I know that his Mum was big on assigning blame and would get cross so his natural instinct is to deflect blame wherever possible.

I don't take milk and use the same cup for weeks. The only reason I get a new one is if the current one is left upstairs in my office as I am too lazy to fetch it.

I'm also interested in the dishwasher schedule, if it didn't run properly then presumably you can't empty it so how are you going to fit all of today's cutlery and crockery? We run our dishwasher when it's full, so usually just after a meal. If it didn't work properly for some reason then we'd have to put it on again as soon as we realised because there just wouldn't be room for any more dirty stuff.

You have a dishwasher schedule??? In our house, whoever puts in the last plate/cup etc that fills it to capacity switches it on.

"n our house, whoever puts in the last plate/cup etc that fills it to capacity switches it on."
You clearly haven't met my children. They fill it to capacity and then don't switch it on.

Thanks you reminded me to go do the washing up

You really should keep a couple of empty jam jars in the house in case of disasters like this.

Do you have a dog? If not I will lend him a dog bowl. I’m sure my dogs won’t mind.

That's his Xmas present sorted then!

Send him out shopping with a very, very specific description of the only acceptable type of cups to buy, the more esoteric the better.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar I found myself doing this last week. I dropped a jar in the supermarket which smashed all over the floor and my feet. I said to the assistant "could you help me, this jar got smashed when it was dropped". Fuck knows where that came from

My standard response to my DH (or sons when they were young) when they 'bring' me this type of problem is "Yes.....and?" with a head tilt and quizzical furrowed forehead. It usually resulted in them slinking off to do whatever it is themselves.

I started doing it back. As in "The car is almost on empty" or "The lightbulb is out in the hall". Drives DH nuts because he knows exactly why I do it.

Oh, I do 'the lightbulb is out in the hall' thing, because I have shoulder issues and can't reach over my head enough to be able to change it. I do try to rephrase it as"'when you have time would you mind changing the lightbulb" because it's more direct, but I don't always remember.

Has he thought of going into politics?

He certainly seems to have the right sort of forward planning skills required for high office.

DH likes to observe, as he finishes the brand of breakfast cereal that only he eats, that the box is empty. And I like to say that perhaps he could observe when the box is half full so I can add it too the shopping list. But this is a task not suited to superior DH brain power, so it doesn’t happen, and so poor DH has to put himself out and go to the shops because his DW is simply not bothered to check his serial box every day. You see, mn-ers, I am simply not a very good wife, as I have not given sufficient priority to this task in addition to doing all the cleaning, washing, cooking and childcare and being the major wage earner. I do feel for the OP’s DH who has a similarly defective DW.

@ememem84

Dh said this to me once. He uses a seperate cup for each cup of tea.I don’t. I tend to just rinse mine out. The last time it happened I made him tea in a gravy boat.

I hope there were remnant of Bisto in there