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Rhumond Tonique's avatar

I'm surprised that no one has hit on the real cause for this crisis. It all goes back to your childhood upbringing. From Psych 101 in college, 50 years ago, we all learned that the compulsion to have things neat and orderly comes from strict toilet training. So now Gloria, you know something about your wife you didn't know before, and vice versa. You're welcome. 😂😂😁😁 (offered in total fun)

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Ha! Touché

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Susan Niemann's avatar

This is hilarious... I totally get it. I experience something similar with my brother the hunter. Instead of stacking the coasters on the coffee table he lays them out individually at odd angles, thinking he's being artistic or something. 🤦‍♀️ I see this and stack them properly. Later he will lay them out again.

It's just a little game we play. 😂😂

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Sondra Poplar's avatar

The actual sight of how that dishwasher was “loaded” really put me in a tissie” I take great care in how the dishwasher is loaded and it must be filled to capacity before it is turned on to save energy, and it is only turned on very late in the evening…….also to save energy. Same with doing laundry!

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E. Jean Carroll's avatar

Fight on, Brave Warrioress!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

squints eyes which one are you voting for?

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Kimberly Montgomery (CA)'s avatar

🤣😂. Hysterical! My father was a neatnik. The Airforce trained him well. It's a battle I am not willing to fight, but I will rearrange things as needed in the dishwasher to get more in. I am an excellent packer and organizer. I rehang things at the retail stores. I wipe down the sink and counter in public restrooms as I hate the huge puddles of water left by others. It's just part of who I am.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

You will be able to breeze into Heaven with those skills.

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Reine's avatar

Mmm… 🤔

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Morgan 🌲's avatar

I really enjoy your writing and this was a great way to lighten the mood but still be pertinent. I’ve never had a dishwasher and I’m older so have always washed by hand. I usually wash as I cook and even after my food is plated I want to get the last dish washed as I don’t like doing dishes after I eat & just want to relax. My mother on the other hand wanted the dishes washed before putting in the dishwasher though my brother, who rarely touched a dish needing washing except when older, put dishes in dishwasher unwashed and started it so mom didn’t see. Funny how differently we can do a basic chore and wind up with same results.

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Kimberly Montgomery (CA)'s avatar

Exactly! Just a matter of people being willing to see things from others ' perspective, that there is more than one "right" way.

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Dana Bennett's avatar

I have no dishwasher and washing dishes by hand gives me dreaming and muddling time. I rather like it. I muddle over ideas I’m thinking of writing about. And that time with hands in water gives me inspiration. I’ve even done BIG cleanups long before there were dishwashing machines! Bigger ideas! Cleaner hands!

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Kathlyn's avatar

While I also stack the dishwasher the way you do, and Himself drops crockery in wherever a la your missus, yes it does still come out clean. Unlike you, I’ve decided to leave him to it. There are bigger battles to fight (like who cleans the bathroom!). He loads the dishwasher now, and I do the cooking - seems like a fair swap!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

We 100% on the same page.

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Chana's avatar

I am an unavowed dishwasher maniac. I don't think there's a game going on in my house; Jim just loads it wrong. I rearrange and he has no clue. But rearranging is a compulsion. My universe is not on an even keel unless the dishwasher is optimally loaded.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I have two words for you:

HIS OFFICE!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Chana's avatar

That area of the house is invisible to me, I have no idea what you're talking about.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

HA!!! Smart.

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Debbie Young's avatar

I absolutely loved this as I can totally relate You described everything to perfection love love love this

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Yeah. The dishwasher is a pressure point for me.

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maggie towne's avatar

No dishwasher in this house, but I hate putting the clean dishes away. Hopefully someone will do that for me :-) but I actually advocate for chaos. It’s more fun.

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Teyani Whitman's avatar

Clearly she knows how to get a laugh from all of us!

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

I guess we, with type A personality, have to admit if even to a very tiny amount of OCD. You win some, Gloria, and you loose some.

Have you ever been to a Jewish wedding? The groom steps on a dish wrapped in a napkin. The dish breaks. MAY THAT BE THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENS IN THEIR MARRIAGE. BUT: I do get it!!

Do your hangverseny also all face the same way??? 🤣🤣🤣

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Oh, God, yes! LOL

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Richbee's avatar

Let me take this dish wash up a notch. The kids fight over who wash’s and who dries. The war continues. Inspector Gadget tosses a dish back ‘cause there’s a missed spot. Do it again. Graduation from dunking rivalry to dishwasher etiquette. This is war. Dishes tossed every which way.

Can there be a truce? Give and take? Dish etiquette a la Martha Stewart. Where is that book?

I think paper plates is as alternative. Toss them away with the take out plastic utensils. There is a solution.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

The Joy of Paper Plating … Richard, please write that story in your unique word style for me!

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Richbee's avatar

Oh how you please in so many different ways. This is a request to be written with Mr Clean plates after being licked by the dog. Oh, I count the ways to economize electric energy gridlock. What a perfect project. Would you want a play of words, sword fight or banter at the laundromat when for a few quarters we can toss and turn then watch spin cycles.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

All of the above please.

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Richbee's avatar

I like spin cycles. See where they go. Whirlpool has a great device called tornado.

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Richbee's avatar

Then many mates have dishwasher plans posted next to the washer. That’s a bit obsessive compulsive disorder for me. Could be a white board plan for you.

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Wayne Robins's avatar

We have a dishwasher in our house but I still have loading trauma, instilled by guess who (Hi Mom, wherever the heck you are). When I stayed in her condo in South Florida, she would rearrange my loads (just trying to be helpful). Dishes were not wiped clean enough; others in the wrong direction. Glasses too far apart or too close together. My wife all but hand cleans every dish and utensil before it goes in the dishwasher, so why even load it? It was simpler when we didn't have one, and in addition to husband and dad, I was the dishwasher.

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Jena Ball's avatar

Hahahaha….I never use my dishwasher. What does that say about me? And as for stacking my dishes after they’re washed, well my dish rack is filled willy nilly. I only empty it when there’s no room for another dish. I know I know I’m a total slackard.

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Patris's avatar

No it’s being a free spirit!

(And the bonus is confounding my husband)

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Jena Ball's avatar

Hahahaha, thank you for that.

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Carol L. Clark's avatar

Sheepishly, me too. Incorrigible.

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Jena Ball's avatar

I love that word and am now wondering how to add it to my LinkedIn profile - LOL.

Here's to all the incorrigibles ;-)

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Marc Friedman's avatar

My wife and I have fought the dishwasher battle for 19 years. Just yesterday, for the first time, she did not rearrange my Jackson Pollack method of loading the dishwasher. And guess what. The Jackson Pollack method worked! The dishes were spotless. My sense of satisfaction was overwhelming. Thank you God. (Can I say that if I am an Atheist?)

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Arthur's avatar

"Jackson Pollack method " Too funny!

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samani's avatar

Why not? Freedom freedom:-)

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