Well, looky who I heard from!!!!

Yayyyy!!!!!

Name: AmyVegas
URL: http://www.ilovescoobysnax.blogspot.com
Comments:
Something I been 'a wonderin' for awhile now, but either I missed it if you've said or you've never said...why no dishwasher? The automatic kind, I mean. I grew up w/out a dishwasher. My dad used to joke when people would ask why we don't have one "I have 2 dishwashers!" (Ahem, my brother and I. Hardy Har Har.)

Now, I've already sent her back an email, since I got the comment that way (as opposed to getting it here). However, it reminded me of another little incident with me, Eric and a gas stove....lol.

Just in case anyone else is wondering the same thing as Amy was, let me let ya's know what that answer is first.
First, as to a real dishwasher, I'm gonna hafta go with 'no room for one'. (Damn it.)
And, I usedta have the same kinda one as Amy's Dad, but he quit when we three decided a few months back that the 'guys jobs' around here are both 'outside' and mine is all the inside shit. They both work outside of here and make the money. I work inside of here and spend it. On them. In here. Making messes that I then hafta clean up by myself...like dinner and whatnot.
(sigh...)
Anyhow, when we all forged that deal, it was Eric's last busted suds bubble. I can't even remember the last time I saw George do that....and, it's not just because of my 'self-induced Alheimer's memory', either. He just don't do it. Lil shit....

Aaaanyway.....Eric and I have only lived with one dishwasher so far and only for about six months. It was a great six months, too. We STILL speak fondly of that dishwasher, as if it were a long lost friend or family memeber that was, regrettably, removed from our lives for some vague reason. I'm surprised we don't whisper about it when we speak of it, it was so revered....lol.

That was where we also 'met' the first gas stove either of us had lived with. We never blew anything up with it or anything bad like that, but neither of us can recall that stove without giggling like madmen, because we were both so retarded....lmao.
We both knew how they worked and all that. We had no trouble turning it on, but, the knobs are not marked well and the few things the knobs ever do say, gets worn off right quick in the life of said knob, so.....we thought it only had two settings (not counting 'off'). "Lite" and "high". We thought "high" was how ya got it lit and that "lite" was the lower heat setting. Could NOT understand why 'lite' didn't make the flame go down and why the part of the knob that was showing when the flame DID go down wasn't marked. We worked with it, the fucked up way it SEEMED to be, til one day...it hit us. "OOOOHHHH!!!!! That's what it means!!!! Lite is "light" and high is the hottest and WHY would ya need the knobs marked when you can SEE the flame to adjust it.....OHHHH!!!"
Duh.

And, yes....we ARE both natural blondes. WHY????

Tell ya what....after nearly three years of gas stoves, I really prefer electric. There IS no reduced temp setting on a gas stove. 'Simmer' does NOT happen. What happens is you just burn a smaller and smaller ring of whatever yer cooking inside the pan. The temp stays the same, it's just the 'sphere of influence' it has shrinks. You can either make the entire contents of a pan boil, or a smaller and smaller circle of the shit bubble as you try to get it to 'simmer'.
To truly get it to simmer, you have to have the flame so low a fly could fart and blow it out and you risk filling yer house with gas and blowing up if that happens and ya light something else, like say a cigarette, without realizing what happened.
It's twisted, I tell ya. Twisted.
Give me a good old, highly controllable electric stove next time, okay? In fact, I'll trade right now.....

Of course, there's still toaster pastries. At least IT'S settings are clearly marked.

Peace y'all.

Posted by: Stevie at 03:19 PM

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1 I grew up having to unload the dishwasher everyday. Since I've been on my own, I haven't used one. Our house came with one and I only used it at Xmas. It broke while I was in Iraq and it is still sitting 1/4 full of water under the counter 6 mos later. I did the Xmas dishes in the bathtub this year.

Posted by: Kenna at April 19, 2004 06:20 PM (h8fVz)

2 *snort*
I shoulda done that myself the other day...
I think I washed every damned dish in the house.

Posted by: Stevie at April 19, 2004 08:06 PM (3o527)

3 lol...Thanks hun! I probably shouldn't mention that I currently have a dishwasher that never gets used...*ducking*

Oh, and that was great about the gas stove...I'm still chuckling.

Posted by: AmyVegas at April 20, 2004 09:20 AM (lBFdX)

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