Please tell me if homicide would be justified...

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maycee

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I have my spatchcocked turkey on the counter with the herb butter to come to room temperature so I can loosen the skin and fill it with softened butter. I am peeling and chopping vegetables for charlie's Grandma's Dressing. I have wigs crust chilling for Pumpkin Praline Pie. And Ed decides it is the perfect time to bring in the plants to soak and water in the kitchen sink. We have a utility sink in the laundry room that is ten feet away but it is filled with his wet sneakers and sweaty tshirt, shorts, underwear and socks.

I have a 10" chef's knife that I just sharpened...

 
No, just a seat in the doghouse come dinner time...

which might be a bit delayed due to someone taking up the cooking space with plants!

 
Oh my, I know exactly how you feel. My hubby does not "GET IT" when I have asked

so many times to let me have the kitchen on busy prep days, holiday prep days. He will come out of his huge work shop which has a sink, fridge with drinks, and heating and cooling, into my kitchen to wash his hands in the kitchen sink where I have my greens refreshing in cool water or some similar scenario. Mostly, he likes to bring the hummingbird feeder into my sink to thoroughly clean it and refill. Truly, I could go into a wild rage because we also have a full sink in the laundry room with hot and cold water.
I know other husbands who go out to eat breakfast on these busy days so the ladies of the house can have the kitchen.
One good thing is that my hubby does all the prep dishes and clean up for me, so my rage has to be controlled.

 
Michael, I totally get this...

All of the above, and would you believe deciding to paint the kitchen on Thanksgiving Eve one year?

Get the punch bowl set up now. Anytime something like this happens, get another glass of punch.

 
Pour some wine, sit down and go on strike until the sink is free.

Too bad he doesn't have a thick accent like mine--you could pretend not to understand a thing he says until he complies--passive aggressive, I know.

 
My dad had been getting up to sleep in the recliner because his back

was bothering him and from there could hear the fridge running a lot, so decided to bring his air compressor in and blow out the coils and under & behind it, coating everything in the already-cleaned house (and especially kitchen) with dirt.

 
That is what mine would do too, but I am too quick and head him off at the pass

One year he decided to have all the windows in the house retrofitted with dual pane...on Thanksgiving week. i had men here all week, going in and out, of my just cleaned house.. I was beside myself and vowed never again he was going to sabotage me like that. So far, so good, except for the kitchen. I have a friend who had a small kitchen built for her husband. She had hers and he had his smaller kitchen in the back room. Worked like a charm. Thanksgiving and Christmas dishes, pots and pans were piled back there, and after years of his antics bothering her in the kitchen, he now got the job of cleaning up...in HIS kitchen.

 
One of my friends told hers that if he even THOUGHT about touching or

adding anything to her dressing again she was going shopping the next day with HIS credit cards and he would be very sorry.

 
I had the worst of stressors.... 2 hours before party, I had sewage (eww!), come through kitchen

sink, bathroom sink and laundry room sink.... every 3 minutes, it would come up out, and went into cabinets, all over floor. Did I say EWW!! and the smell. It was awful!
My ds (12), was wonderful, knew mom was throwing up in bathroom, and grabbed towels and was cleaning while dh was tracking down a roto rooter guy that came out 1 hour later....

It all came together, but it was a crazy, crazy day!

 
I feel your pain. We also have had that happen - three or four times

when we lived in our first home. My in-laws were there each time it happened. We had no idea about septic tanks. We sure learned fast. In this house (been here for 40 years) it was in the county when we moved in, but has since been incorporated into the City. We voted down extra taxes to be on city sewer, but we now know to add a bacteria every month to our septic tank, and we do NOT use the garbage disposal for anything other than washing down the sink and the bits that come off of plates when we rinse them. It is a royal mess when they overflow, and if you have company, you have to be careful that they do not put things down the toilet that should not go down to the tank.

I don't know if this is an issue with City sewers but I have not heard anyone complaining about it except the City which puts messages into their newsletter now and then about the stuff people try and flush down.

 
Great question, but my simple answer is, the hostess is overwhelmed and

so is the house and probably has been for about a week.

 
Yep - more use = higher liklihood of problems. The day before our wedding

my in-laws bathtub drain clogged up and starting leaking through the kitchen ceiling from the 2nd floor. They were hosting our rehearsal dinner and reception at their home. Talk about stressed out! My poor MIL....

About a month after we moved into our current home, we had visitors staying with us for the holidays. The 5 extra people using the shower, plus extra dishwasher/laundry use caused a gigantic flood from our bathroom drains....which led us to our first purchase of a Shop-vac. smileys/bigsmile.gif

 
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