Buggin'

So my bro comes home the other day to chillax from all the nerding out he's been doing for his Nerd MSc-ing (or like 'physics' if you want to call it by it's proper name) (actually if you want to call it by it's proper name then you'll have to ask him cos I don't flipping know) and he tells me this story about the people who live in his halls that has actually been keeping me awake at night.

Get this: Two (boyf and girlf) TWO! of them! Wash up dishes (acceptable) and then put the dishes away WET (unacceptable). TWO OF THEM! Two human beings think this is a good idea! To wash dishes and then immediately put those dishes back in the cupboard without even allowing them to drip dry first! They do this! All the time!

W-H-A-T T-H-E F-L-I-P?????

I don't... I can't... On every level this baffles me. Utterly baffles me. So first off, who in their right mind (someone of a university educated level lest we forget) doesn't at some point go 'hang on, it might be better if these items are dry next time I want to use them' and then, from that point take a fanciful leap of imagination and go 'maybe stacking these items in the cupboard is not the best way of ensuring their dryness next time I want to use them' and then power walk (in their mind) to the conclusion with all the flashing lights and giant neon arrow that's pointing towards a sign saying 'WASH UP, THEN DRY UP, THEN PUT AWAY'.

But, ok. Let's say this person, when they were little, their dad left their mum. Their mum became a total wreck. This person (who was, lest we forget, preciously young at the time) thought 'I want to do something to help mummy' and because the house was a bit of a mess as mum desperately tried to hold things together and failed, and they were still a bit too small to use the hoover, didn't really understand what the dust cloth was for, they thought 'I'll do the washing up for mummy'. And then they dragged the big blue box from the playroom into the kitchen and stood on it and did the best job they could; scrubbing away at pots and pans, swooping the dishcloth over the plates and watching the muck dissolve into the bubbles. Finally the kitchen, whilst not spotless, started to look more like it had when mummy and daddy were still living in the same house. And because this child was so young they then assumed that because these things were clean they could immediately go back in the cupboards so even though they weren't sure of where things lived they put everything away. Mummy came downstairs after her nap (third of the day and it was still only 3pm) and looked at the kitchen in amazement 'I can't believe you did this!' she exclaimed as a dawning realisation that she had to do better for the both of them, had to stop feeling sorry for herself, started to kick in. 'This is amazing!*'. This person had never seen their mum look so happy and sad at the same time. They knew they'd done some momentous. It was a landmark moment in both their lives. And because of this she never mentioned that you're supposed to dry the dishes before putting them away. Even as time went on and this person would sometimes help out after their mum had cooked a delicious meal for everyone and still continued to wash-but-not-dry, their mum never said anything as it reminded her of that cold day in April when she'd walked into the kitchen and been kicked into getting her life back togther. It had meant she was ready and willing to accept love from Mr Barfield three years later and had never been happier since.

THAT IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE REASON NO ONE HAD EVER THOUGHT TO MENTION IT'S STUPID TO WASH BUT NOT DRY YOUR DISHES. THE ONLY ONE. But there's two people doing this. TWO! So you would have thought one person would have mentioned to the other 'this really isn't how you're supposed to do this'. But they haven't! SO I JUST DON'T GET IT. I hate when I don't get stuff. It bugs me. I'm totally buggin' right now because of this.

*My mum would have been 'what the fuck have you done??!'**
**This is a woman who lost her shit because I put a teabag and a teaspoon of coffee into the same mug cos I wanted to see what that tasted like*** 'WHAT A WASTE! WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!' she screamed when I told her what I'd done which I still don't really get cos a) I drank it and b) it was a teabag or a teaspoon of coffee extraneously used. Not like I'd poured diamonds down the drain.
*** Gross fyi