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Lizzy Co (she/they)'s avatar

Ugh, what a gut punch of relatability. Here’s to upgrading to dishwashers and better boyfriends!🤘

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

got me both! hashtag blessed now

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AMANDA's avatar

my ex boyfriend once got me an ad for a bag i really wanted on my birthday. yes. just the ad. I get you completely. Anyway, here’s to you being the best writer to ever write on this platform AND owning a dishwasher.

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Stop it, an AD! And advertisement!?!!! Christ almighty lollll I’m laughing because I cannot cry.

Thank you Amanda, I ain’t the best just doing my best I guess :)

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Charlotte (has) Baby Brain's avatar

My mother had the same lines, it's been a real inconvenience undoing the damage such words inflicted. Great piece

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

Oh... This! I have to re-wash greasy stuff. We don't have a dishwasher so... Yeah, I've done this. I love how normal you are (normal means 'like me' in this context, of course.)

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Hanna we have a dishwasher now (and this biochemist is a thing of the past) but Christ almighty do I loathe the bastard dishes.

Here’s to telling someone to do things right the first time.

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

Definitely.

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Laggy's avatar

My mom and dad both sucked at dishes. They didn’t have any cliches.

My cliche: Be a man, do shit right the first time.

All those 1am trips to the kitchen to redo your shitty dish job are gonna build up and she’s gonna be gone one day. All cause you couldn’t care enough to do a couple things the way she liked.

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Jules Powellhi's avatar

Oooo now if I spoke to him that way, now that wouldn’t work very well

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Laggy's avatar

P.S. For eggplant parm, those dishes would sparkle. Every Italian restaurant I go to, first time, have to try their meatballs and their eggplant parm. Get those right, and we are good.

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the Crab's avatar

Better than cutting off some private part as he sleeps, definitely. Good work.

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Sam Lloyd's avatar

This! This This This. I redo a lot of the 'kitchen cleaning' that goes on at my house. And they get mad about it. I'm sorry, but why not just do it properly? And sure maybe I'm a crazy controlling b*tch who wants the dishwasher packed a certain way and by gosh can't you just turn the light on when you wash the pans... but can't they care enough about ME to just do it? Thank you for this relatable piece.

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Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

Thats next level. The amount of great gals that have put up with my shit over the years... wow...

But I was worth it... and I hope he was / is too :)

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Susan Coyne's avatar

She broke up with him

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T. D. Wolf's avatar

Do it wrong. Oldest man trick in the book.

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Ken Flyingheart's avatar

Fantastic. The biochemist strikes again. Relatable and nice sharp prose as usual. Love it, Sudana!

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Night Shift Writing's avatar

Oh is this relatable. I finally caved and got disposable everything for awhile until I found a new place..with a dishwasher!

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

honestly it is a life-changer!

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Lindsay Gottlieb's avatar

This really is absurd. I love it.

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Nur Nadar's avatar

Sudana you are my inspiration 🙏🏼

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Den's avatar

This reminds me of my step father, he's exactly like this except the PhD. I could never imagine being with someone who can't do basic household chores

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Karma lhendup bhutia's avatar

As a man speaking no work is gender based it's just basic social animals ought to do . Every man should know it even some know it but not many .

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AB1977's avatar

Appreciate your writing so much, I save your posts for the weekend. And thank you for reminding everyone that there clearly a right and wrong way to put dishes in the drying rack.

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