Preteen Presents:

The dish fight.

We have a new dishwasher. The kids don't know how to use it so they just load it (it's a regular chore all three oldest kids share with me). Last night I was busy sanitizing the house (see The L Word, below) so I forgot to run it.

This morning we find we have no bowls. The dishes were not done the night before because we didn't have a dishwasher. I loaded and ran the dishes the first night the new washer was installed but that did not get all the dishes done and I was gone most of the day the next day (mostly picking up kids from school and dealing with the L word). I told the kids they would have to wash bowls themselves if they wanted cereal because we woke up a little late and I was busy getting Bossman ready (this kid is DIFFICULT to wake up and even more difficult to keep awake and get dressed - NOT a morning person is he!!).

I came out to see Poinsettia getting a bowl out of the dishwaher. I told her it was dirty. She said it wasn't. I opened the dishwasher to show her all the nasty bowls in it. She insisted her bowl was clean. She then tried to tell me that bowl was clean because the dishwasher was run it just didn't clean the other dishes.

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I really couldn't wrap my mind around any of that. I told her the dishwasher was brand-new and had a garbage-disposal type function so there would be NO dirty bowls, I told her just because there wasn't stuck-on food on a bowl had nothing to do with whether or not it is SANITIZED (the only reason I got a dishwasher is so I know the dishes are SANITIZED) and she needed to not be eating out of that bowl.

I'm pretty sure she ate out of it anyway (DISGUSTING!!!) because she feels I'm wrong and she's right. Well fine, then, but if she gets sick I'm going to kick her butt!!! NASTY!

I'll admit I have germaphobic tendancies but PLEASE don't eat out of a dirty bowl!!!!!!