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From: SummersEchos
Date: 04-15-2005, 11:42 PM (1 of 12)
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A good friend called me today and made my day. She has a son who is 20. He lives in an apartment, with his girlfriend. He had called mom to ask for her receipe for this 15 bean soup she makes. It was some kind of anniversy for the couple and he wanted to surprise the gf by making this dinner. She of course gave him the receipe and instruted him to make sure he washed and sorta the beans and all the fresh veggies. His story about what happened::::::::: Now as he told her----he remembers her standing at the sink washing all this, and how time comsuming it was. Being a man he thought of a faster and eaiser way to do this. So after he cut up the veggies, he dumped those and the beans into the washing machine. Now he didn't put any soap in it (his mind was thinking),put it on small load (once again he was thinking) put it on perma press, hot wash warm rinse,(needed to make sure they were clean) and started it to go. He then left the apartment to run and get some flowers for the table. When he got back, he opened the washer and lo and behold he had this mashed up mess. So he figured okay we will forget the soup and just have the other stuff. So he cleans out the washer (best as he could) and goes about cooking. The weekend came and dear gf goes to do some wash. She does the light clothing first and when she goes to get them out, she has all kind of blotches of something on the clothes, find bits and pieces of food. She of course is wondering how this has happened. DBF is no where to ask, so she takes the clothes out and cleans the machine and rewashes them. Same thing happens and now she is a little mad. When DBF comes home she shows him, and he finally tells her what he did. They call a repair man to come out and see if he can clean it out. The next day the repair comes out. The repair man had a good laugh and got busy. He said that the veggies and beans had slipped through the holes were like a paste on the other side of the drum. He never saw anything like it. Of course all was forgiven by GF and everyone had a good chuckle. Summer Summer
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User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: Sewhappie
Date: 04-16-2005, 12:17 AM (2 of 12)
| It's a "Guy Thing"!!!!!!! |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 04-16-2005, 02:10 AM (3 of 12)
Only a man's mind could conceive of doing something that stupid!!!  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 04-16-2005, 08:50 AM (4 of 12)
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Leave it to a man. One evening I was sitting at my sewing machine when my oh-so-helpful husband comes in. He is standing at the doorway looking a little sheepish. "I just learned something," he says. "What?" I ask. "You can't use regular dish soap in the dishwasher." I jump up and run into the kitchen. There was soap everywhere. I laughed so hard. It looked like I Love Lucy or something. He was just trying to be helpfull. Ya gotta love em -- although it's a little hard sometimes. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 04-16-2005, 02:44 PM (5 of 12)
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I'm very thankful that my hubby was self-sufficient for about 12 years before we met, so he would never do anything like that! Quite a story! (both of them) Thanks for the chuckles!
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User: GreenDragonLady
Member since: 07-29-2004 Total posts: 495 
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From: DragonLady
Date: 04-16-2005, 04:15 PM (6 of 12)
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I tried using regular dish soap in the dishwasher once. I knew it would bubble up, but I figured just a tiny bit would be okay. The hot water faucet wasn't working so the dishwasher was all I had..... It was a mess. And my husband laughing at me was worse. 
"No more twist! No more twist!"
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User: DragonLady
Member since: 11-10-2004 Total posts: 152 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-16-2005, 09:28 PM (7 of 12)
Thank heavens my husband can cook AND clean.....but he's never learned how to set the vcr....(weird for a computer geek...  )
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: Domestic Goddes
Date: 04-17-2005, 10:20 AM (8 of 12)
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I know a number of (single) men who boil eggs in the electric kettle to save washing up the pan. Definitely a guy thing. Most of these chaps would have scooped out the mess from the machine and made the soup anyway............................when we meet up we always eat out! |
User: Domestic Goddes
Member since: 01-04-2005 Total posts: 108 |
From: Bama
Date: 04-23-2005, 12:23 AM (9 of 12)
Oooooooh what a mess.  My 16yo son has done the dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher before. Suds were everywhere.  We had to scoop out the bubbles and run clear water through. Then scoop out more bubbles and run more clear water through....... not to mention using every towel in the house......I don't think he will do that again. I saw on lady on TV once that cooked corn on the cob in her dishwasher when she was having alot of people over. 
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User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116 
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From: natred2
Date: 04-23-2005, 01:03 AM (10 of 12)
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My spouse - thank goodness- always reads the instruction manuals ( thats what I have him for since I don't do it) Even so, he still can do some bone-head things. I used to have this little round srubby brush, it held dish soap...note I said used to have, So I come home one day and there are bubbles all over the floor and the were pouring out of the dish washer. He thought he would wash the scrubby, because it was getting dingy. there wasn't much dish soap in it but, like you say, it doesn't take much...hahahaI could see my son screwing up the washer that way tho. Aren't they precious. Don't be so open minded your brains fall out.
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User: natred2
Member since: 04-09-2005 Total posts: 81 
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From: CodyGramma
Date: 04-23-2005, 02:41 PM (11 of 12)
| Sounds like a Tim Taylor type of thing to me!! ROFLOL My sister in law washes all her cukes in her washing machine when she goes to do her pickling! She swears by it! I just do it the old fashioned way and scrub them by hand myself. My washing machine cost too much for me to take chances like that!! LOL I've also heard you can wash baseball caps in the dishwasher but I've never tried that one either. |
User: CodyGramma
Member since: 04-22-2005 Total posts: 133 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-23-2005, 04:07 PM (12 of 12)
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You can get a plastic frame to put the hats on when you put them in the dish washer. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
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