I have been labelled a sick and depraved person by two of my besties at my workplace after simply trying to wash the dirty dishes.
You see, every night when the few of us left at work finish, we head to the communal kitchen and clean up the rogue coffee cups, plates and cutlery left in the sink.
Please, do not label us heroes.
We are but mild-mannered, willing washer-upperers for the people.
But this one night, the dishwasher was already mid-cycle and I was in a rush to get home to knit and drink wine (because this is everything for a perfect night).
So what is a girl to do?
Well, I simply opened the dishwasher door, took out the watery glasses and things that were pretty much clean.
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I whacked them back in the cupboard and the I replaced them with the truly dirty dishes.
Shut the door! Hit go! Presto!
Within 10 seconds I had done the dishes.
My workmates acted as if I had truly committed a serious criminal offence.
Their eyes grew to the size of saucers.
You should have seen the stunned looks on their faces. Had they ever seen someone open the dishwasher mid-cycle?
“You are welcome,” I said.
It’s a genius life hack.
Who has 45 minutes to wait around for crockery and cutlery to clean when surely it’s pretty much done in the first half of that phase?
It seems there are two schools of thought on this.
There’s the people like me who are all about saving time.
And there’s the others who think the global pandemic will return if the dishwasher doesn’t clean for an hour.
I say to give it a whirl, if you are feeling rebellious.
No harm will come to you or the dishes or world order.
Trust me.
My two friends are still recovering from my washing revelation but no one was whingeing when we made it out the door that night in record time.
Now, should we have a debate about how it doesn’t matter if you stack the dishwasher in a messy fashion?
I can just picture my poor husband, uncomfortably shaking his head.
Sami Muirhead is a radio announcer, blogger and commentator. For more from Sami, tune into Mix FM
