Sounds like a result.

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Easy Peasey. Accidentally drop a few of her favourite pieces of china. Sorted!

expat wrote on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 3:29am:

Nothing of importance is achieved without sacrifice.  What are you - man or mouse?

You could try what I did once, remove the shelves from within the dish washer and hide them.
See her get out of that

I have a dishwasher but rarely use it... is there something wrong with me? It looks very nice mind, but only seems to be used when we have guests.
Otherwise it is either the missus or me that washes the dishes. Must get the children more used to this as part of my child-slavery policy

Gee, it's nice living alone!   I can load the dishwasher however I like, run it at any time of the day or night, or opt not to do the dishes at all!

A stern female finger pointing at the stack of paper plates warded me away from the dishwasher. They're cheap and biodegradable, right? Renewable resource and all that, right?

How I got out of the dishwasher dilemma!

Kinda like Ozzy said, I don't belive using the dishwasher is nessecery (as it's just me and the ol'lady), unless we have a bunch of family or friends over to eat. But the wife don't like to do dishes by hand, and eventually loads up the dish washer untill I can't find a clean plate or utinsiles ,
utensals, knife, fork or spoon, and God help her, my coffee mug. And like you said SHE expects me to unload it.

So here's how to get out of this wishywashy situation.
First, make sure your lady ain't looking over your shoulder as you read this!

You got to make like your giving in. OK honey use your dishwasher, have fun. Now you are throwing her off, everythings OK.So now what you do is after your done eating,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Wash your own dishes. Let her pileup her own stuff in the dishwasher, and when your stuff is dry put them away in the cupboard (or where ever you put them).Now what ever you do ignore the situation and when she thinks YOUR going to empty the blasted washer, just go and get you clean frosty mug, fill it with a beverage of your choice and go about your buisness as if nothing is going on. She'll get the message and empty the darn thing herself! , OK gotta run, I hear her coming down to my chambers.

Steve M wrote on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 8:12pm:


After being married for just about 7 months, I already know this is usually the way to peace. Just nod your head and say "yes ma'am". Brownie points are always useful! So many wonderful choices for redeeming them too (airshows being one of the options).

Matt,

That's easy... just unload the dishwasher, and put everything back in the WRONG place. Spoons where forks go, stack the small bowls under the big bowls, small plates mixed up with large ones. Do that, and she'll think you're such a moron that you can't do anything right. Then, she'll unload the dishwasher herself from now on just to make sure everything's in the right place.

That's the key here. You need to condition her behavior to think that you're incapable of performing any task, no matter how menial or important AND that if you try, you'll fail miserably.

Ingrain that conditioned response into her cerebellum, and in no time at all those chores you were tasked to do will be removed from your list of responsibilities. If you've got younglings, even better! They will be given all of the chores that were once your responsibility to complete, and bear the burden of punishment for failure to complete the task at hand!

Of course, now and again you need to reinforce that mindset. Go out in the yard, and try to mow the lawn. Make sure you give the appearance of a total git; look clueless as you mow with no set pattern or goal. Your other half will see this, corral one of your offspring and have them take over what you were doing, usually with rapidity, grand gestures and loud screeching orders to the tune of "Go find out what your dad is doing, and make him stop before he hurts himself, or worse!".

Then, you can go back to what you were doing in the first place...watching the tube, napping, simming or whatever you were doing before you received your scolding.



Alan

andy190 wrote on Mar 10^th, 2012 at 12:14am:



You both have very valid points and ideas. Unfortunately, as I am an aircraft maintenance inspector by trade, she would know I am trying to pull the wool over her eyes and that would bring a whole new set of problems.......................

Matt

expat wrote on Mar 10^th, 2012 at 3:57am:


It doesn't matter what your job is, if you Feign Incompetence for long enough she will eventually give up trying to make you do whatever it is you don't what to do.