After reading Anxious Annie’s post (I know her name isn’t Annie, but, y’know, alliteration…) about dishwashers, it made me pine after my own mechanical servant to wash my crockery.
If someone asked me “what, in all the world, do you hate doing the most?”, my answer would be, without a seconds hesitation “Washing up”. I loathe doing the washing up and, as a result, there’s a stack of washing up by my sink waiting to be done right this second. The washing up only ever gets done for one of the following reasons:
- I’ve run out of plates/dishes/cups/glasses/etc and I am fed up of take away food
- I’m expecting company and don’t want to appear a slob
- My mum comes round to visit and feels duty bound to scrub the kitchen to a rediculous level in case I’m required to perform surgery in a trice
Unfortunately I have neither the room nor the funds to get a dishwasher of my very own. I’m going to have to find myself a woman who prides herself on her ability to clean and enjoys it… by which time I should have moved into a mansion in Kensington, bought a small island in the Carribean and holidayed on Mars.
anxious | 04-Oct-05 at 10:04 pm | Permalink
Hang on, you’re buying an Audi A3 and you can’t afford an iddy-biddy dishwasher?
Splee | 05-Oct-05 at 12:12 am | Permalink
The car is something I need and already budgeted for… which is why I can’t afford the dishwasher.
anxious | 06-Oct-05 at 1:49 pm | Permalink
You could get a Skoda, and buy the dishwasher with what you save…
Maybe not, eh?
;)
Splee | 06-Oct-05 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
Ah, you see, funds not withstanding there is still the room issue. I have nowhere for it to go without removing cupboards and the like.
And Skodas aren’t too shabby nowadays… they’re basically VWs with a different badge. Still, they don’t compare to an Audi. :D
drac | 07-Oct-05 at 9:21 pm | Permalink
Heh, why settle for less than an Audi ? Dishwashers. pfft.
Mourn | 08-Oct-05 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
I think you’d look good in a Skoda. Although it’s perhaps a little upmarket for an ex-Rover driver. How about a Lada? They are easy to service. You just roll them on their side.
Splee | 08-Oct-05 at 5:40 pm | Permalink
“They are easy to service. You just roll them on their side.”
I was going to bring up a connection between that phrase and your mother, but thought better of it.
Blue Witch | 12-Oct-05 at 12:13 pm | Permalink
Round here you can pick up 2nd hand year-old dishwashers that are still perfectly serviceable for about £20-£30. Small ads on newsagents boards or freeads in local newspapers. Even new ones aren’t that expensive…