OK, let me preface this story by saying that Josh and I are really busy. We both go to school and work so when it comes to other things in life, such as buying supplies for our home, we are sometimes lacking. We let all of the dishwasher detergent (I wasn't the last one to used it but whatever) run out and didn't get anymore. Well the dishes piled up for about a day and a half and we kept forgetting to get the stupid detergent. Well, I was home from school getting ready to go to work and I thought, oh I know, I'll just put some dish soap in the dishwasher and it will be like a mixture of hand washing and machine washing! Brilliant right? I know. Well the dishes cycled through and didn't really come out clean so at most I thought, hmmm, my experiment didn't work, no biggie. So, I did the rest of the dishes by hand and made ANOTHER mental note to get more detergent. So yesterday Josh got some detergent and started to run the dishwasher. We were getting ready to leave for school and I hear loud roaring sound and then a string of profanity come from the kitchen. I ran in to see what was going on and there was Josh straddling the floor and a mountain of soap suds in between his legs. Well it was all I could do not to roll on the floor laughing but I knew he was mad so I tried very hard to contain myself. Josh and I are different. See, in situations like this, I see you are straddling the floor with soap suds all around! That's funny right? But Josh sees the dishwasher is broken, we will have to pay for it, we won't get our deposit back...not so funny, right? So anyway we got some towels to soak up the suds and headed off to school only to later worry about the evil machine.
Being the fix-it-yourself guy Josh is, he researched a sudsy dishwasher on the net and figured out how to fix it. It was a funny (to me) process but it worked. Josh saved the day! So for those of you who are wondering...dish soap and dishwashers are not friends. They are like lions and antelopes, oil and water, rain and a good hair day, etc. I'll just chalk it up to yet another newlywed lesson.
kallie jean
4 years ago
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Very funny looking back. Nice work! I love reading and knowing your thoughts!
For those of you who want to know how to fix it yourself, click this link http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/appliance/dishwasher/wrongsoap.php
I think everyone learns this lesson the hard way. Usually they only have to learn it once. My roommates almost used dish soap when we ran out of detergent once, but I spotted them putting it in at just the right time and warded off disaster. Well, almost. Even though they scooped the soap out, there was still enough to make suds come out the top, but at least we didn't flood the kitchen.
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