That was a rather confusing locution, I admit. Though the thought of those earnest young men filling the dishwasher for me is delightful.
I sometimes suspect that everybody's manual is in a state like yours, only with different bits missing, and people who pretend to have it all together just make things up.
Minicon and other cons have firmly drummed it into my head to generously tip the housekeeping people. I do hope that the actual people doing the actual work get at least most of the money.
None of us really likes washing dishes, no. I might like it better if the lighting in the kitchen were better; but at least two and maybe three of us are really too tall to be bending over sinks the height that we have, and also we just seem to use a lot of dishes and don't have counter space for a big enough drainer. I hand-wash a special knife, the wok, and the enormous stockpot, the latter of which just barely even fits in the sink; but that is really enough for me. My mother used to hand-wash dishes when she visited us from Florida, on the grounds that it warmed up her hands in the winter and got her fingernails clean year-round. When her own dishwasher died, she said hand-washing was fun for about a week but then got a little old.
I am happy to do laundry, but I hate sorting it.
I know people who give their mail carrier baked goods around Christmas, but I always start worrying if they might be diabetic or allergic to chocolate or to gluten or nuts and end up never making anything for them.
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Date: 2015-07-19 10:51 pm (UTC)I sometimes suspect that everybody's manual is in a state like yours, only with different bits missing, and people who pretend to have it all together just make things up.
Minicon and other cons have firmly drummed it into my head to generously tip the housekeeping people. I do hope that the actual people doing the actual work get at least most of the money.
None of us really likes washing dishes, no. I might like it better if the lighting in the kitchen were better; but at least two and maybe three of us are really too tall to be bending over sinks the height that we have, and also we just seem to use a lot of dishes and don't have counter space for a big enough drainer. I hand-wash a special knife, the wok, and the enormous stockpot, the latter of which just barely even fits in the sink; but that is really enough for me. My mother used to hand-wash dishes when she visited us from Florida, on the grounds that it warmed up her hands in the winter and got her fingernails clean year-round. When her own dishwasher died, she said hand-washing was fun for about a week but then got a little old.
I am happy to do laundry, but I hate sorting it.
I know people who give their mail carrier baked goods around Christmas, but I always start worrying if they might be diabetic or allergic to chocolate or to gluten or nuts and end up never making anything for them.
P.