I'm with you Ruth. I don't get the strainer thing either. Last house
and this one had big old garbage disposals in the sink...I don't much
care what gets shoved down there as long as I don't have to go in and
dig it out. And I don't want to catch stuff in a strainer. In the
last house there was a garbage disposal attached to the dishwasher too.
I liked that. I miss that. Hopefully this dishwasher will break down
some day when I have some money, so I can replace it with one that has
a garbage disposal...or maybe the kids would like it.
-jc
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Ruth Barton wrote:
> Now you guys have gone and done--you've given me a complex and implied
> that
> I'm a lousy housekeeper!!!!! Why, because I DO NOT have a penis and it
> never occurred to me not to keep the strainer in the drain hole. I
> never
> even knew anybody who took their strainer out and kept it on the
> counter.
> Must be a city thing. Ruth
>
>
>
>
>
> At 5:25 PM -0500 3/8/03, Ralph Walter wrote:
> In a message dated 3/8/2003 4:10:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Another common sexual stereotypical use related issue is about the
> strainer
> in the sink, a device that has cause considerable consternation to the
> various sexes that populate my places of work and home. The men say
> "Why
> is it that women always leave the thing on the back of the sink counter
> when it is beautifully designed (probably by a man) to be in the drain
> hole
> to look nice and keep their rings from falling in so their men will
> have to
> take stupid time to open the plumbing and retrieve them." The women
> say
> "Why is it that men always leave the thing in the drain and never
> finish
> cleaning up after themselves."
>
> cp (always putting it back) in bc
>
>
> Cuyler,
>
> I believe your observations in this matter are entirely correct.
> However,
> I have no idea why this should be the case. Nor am I at all certain
> whether to be consoled or profoundly distressed to learn that this is
> evidently a common trait among the Penis-free People.
>
> Mrs. Ralph is forever filling the kitchen sink with garbage (which
> should
> go into the garbage can two steps away, but noooooooooooo), without
> putting
> the damn strainer in, or with the strainer half in, which still permits
> broccoli stumps and other debris to go skittering down the drain. The
> drain line gets clogged, or is slow, and guess who gets to clean it
> out?
>
> Humor, Accuracy, and Plumbing Czar
>
> --
> Ruth Barton
> [log in to unmask]
> Westminster, VT
>
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