Dishes

Dear Allison,

I have a problem with my wife. The way "Bossy" loads the dishwasher doesn't make sense: she fills the side of the dishwasher closest to her with dirty dishes FIRST, which makes her have to reach OVER those dishes to fill up the far-away side. It's like when you go to a movie theater and choose to sit on the end of a row, and then all the people who want to sit in the middle have to climb all over you to get there. It would make much more sense if she filled the far side of the dishwasher FIRST, then she wouldn't have to reach over all the dirty dishes to fill up the close side. What can I do to make her change this? And why doesn't she follow all my good ideas?

Stumped up the Satsop


Dear Stumped,

I am not sure why "Bossy" loads the dishwasher that way. But she probably has a reason why. If you really want to change it, perhaps you could give her reasons why it doesn't make sense, like you did in your question. Of course, she IS doing the dishes. If you feel wrong about the way she does it, perhaps you should talk to her about doing it yourself. Or if that sounds hard to you, you could just go into the other room when she is loading and unloading the dishwasher since she probably unloads wrong too. That's all I have.
 
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Allison