Creative multitasking in the kitchen and bathroom

[biggersm]

I'm borrowing this from another board since I thought you might enjoy. The post is in green font below Actually come to think about it I used to always wash the Voyager XII saddlebags in the kitchen sink and Marcia understood...sort of.

"I had a chain of, um, debates today with my wife. Apparently there are certain things one should not do in the kitchen. I have a parts washer and a deep sink. But much like my other shop equipment they are not hooked up and running for various reasons too lengthy to get into at this time. So I am left with nothing more than a hose and spray bottle of solvents. I decided today that will just no longer do. So I started off by placing the air box from my truck in the dish washer. I had no idea this was the sort of thing inconsiderate people do until it was pointed out to me.

My response was logical but perhaps not that well worded. “Well if dish washers were not meant to wash parts why did my air box and tubing come out so clean?” I also got the impression that things would not have went the way they did had I not mixed in the air box and tubing with our dishes. Okay, lesson one learned for the day.

On to lesson two. As I mentioned my deep sink is not operational. However, I do have a nice large double sink in the kitchen. Soaking the brake parts off of my motorcycle in a can of solvent got them cleaner than I expected. But I still had to take a tooth brush to them and wash the solvent off. I figured using the sink in the kitchen was a great idea. Once again, it was pointed out to me that I was wrong. It would seem that cleaning brake parts with a tooth brush over the sink while washing solvents off into the sink at the same time I was cooking spaghetti was not a wise combination of tasks. I felt I was doing a great job of multitasking. Not only was I getting dinner ready, but I was also getting my motorcycle that much closer to getting back on the road. I find it strange how two people can see a situation so differently.

And finally, I learned the oven is not intended for non-food items. After dinner I was asked why the oven was on. My response “I just painted the master cylinder on my bike so it is baking in the oven” was not well received at all. I guess that fact that I had painted a part made of aluminum and baking it would help the paint stick was irrelevant to her. No, the fact that I had a freshly painted part in the oven is all she cared to acknowledge.

I tell you, I just have no idea what some women are thinking. Her comments today almost had me second guessing my idea of soaking my transfer case in her tub tomorrow. Almost any way…"

One of the follow up posts was funny too. Seems some guy went cat fishing and got home late so he let the catch swim around in the tub until morning but the wife got up earlier than the husband did.

[debron]

I've been known to use the kitchen sink for various chores, including some similar to those listed above. But my mama didn't raise no dummies! I do it when the wife is not at home!!

[David (N. Alabama)]

I learned long ago that the kitchen is sacred ground. I wonder how that guy would feel if his wife went into his shop and started using his tools for things they were not intended for? That would be a good follow up post if there are any women who can chime in on what they used their husbands tools for.

I know I came home one day and was going to use my table saw. The first thing I noticed was that the blade was fully extended from the table. The second thing I noticed were aluminum shavings on the floor under the saw. WTF?
I found my wife and asked her is she used the saw. She said that her mother bought a new aluminum threshold and it needed to be trimmed. She dulled my $65 dollar finish blade, and was very lucky to not have injured herself or her mother. Stay out of my shop and I will stay out of your kitchen!