{"id":2688,"date":"2012-04-25T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:35:45","slug":"how-bad-does-it-have-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"How Bad Does It Have To Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There’s a word we’ve come to use at my house .. SANIFOOD.\u00a0 That’s the name we’ve coined for dirty silverware that comes out of the diswasher after it has completed the “sanitize” cycle.\u00a0 You know what I mean, that smudge of chocolate that didn’t come off the knife you used to frost the devil’s food cake you made over the weekend when your diet went out the window and you opted for death by chocolate.<\/p>\n

As we empty the dishwasher, the conversation goes something like this (names changed to protect the innocent — or idiots if you prefer.)<\/p>\n

Sally: (while chipping baked on peanut butter with her thumbnail off of the back of a spoon, then holding it up to Bob) This is fine, no one would ever notice, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob: (Looking inside a cup from the top rack that still has residue of last night’s tofu surprise casserole)\u00a0 Oh sure, that’s fine babe .. and if we pour hot coffee in this I’m sure no one will know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sally:\u00a0 GOOD POINT!\u00a0 (Reaching for glass bowl covered in so many “water” spots its hard to see your own hand through it)\u00a0 And if we pour the milk quickly in this for our cereal, then we’d never mind this at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob:\u00a0 Now you’re catching on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emptying the dishwasher has become a scientific analsysis of just HOW dirty something has to be before we decide it has to be washed by hand — or if we are in a lack luster mood simply run BACK thru the dishwasher again.\u00a0 In which case the conversation looks something like:<\/p>\n

Bob:\u00a0 Babe?\u00a0 How many times have we washed THIS cup?\u00a0 (Taking sanifood hummingbird mug from top rack.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sally:\u00a0 Oh that’s the mug that is typically<\/em> dirty honey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob:\u00a0 Typically <\/em>dirty?!\u00a0 Hey, why don’t we throw out all the dishes that are typically dirty<\/em> babe, then we’d just have the commonly clean ones left.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course the query .. how bad does it have to get, doesn’t begin and end with the dishes.\u00a0 We live in a home where people are out numbered by critters of all kinds.\u00a0 So when the puppy gets excited and typically<\/em> pees on the bed before scampering off to greet her primary parental figure … we quickly blot up the moisture with toilet paper that sits on the bed stand and ask our self — “Is this enough pee to strip the bed and wash the blankets?\u00a0 Or can I just peel back the top duvet?\u00a0 Or did it not soak in enough at all to matter and we can sleep on this for a couple of days until we DO laundry at the end of the week?”<\/p>\n

How BAD does it have to get before you are willing to take action?<\/h3>\n

And its not like this is anything new.\u00a0 Parents know all about this.\u00a0 With your first born you sterilize all of the toys and run to wash off anything that baby drops on the linoleum.\u00a0 For baby number two, you pick up the binky that fell into the day care sand box and shake it off before giving it back to your cherub who is covered in more bacteria than a petri dish.\u00a0 Which is STILL better than baby number THREE for whom you don’t even PICK UP the toddler fork that fell in the dirt stating that it helps build her immune system if she isn’t overly sanitized.<\/p>\n

How bad does it have to get before you decide to do something?<\/h2>\n

My fictitious name friend Fran recently broke up with her boyfriend this week, because she wasn’t getting what she wanted in the relationship.\u00a0 But it wasn’t an easy decision, it never is.\u00a0 Parts of the relationship worked.\u00a0 But she knew in her heart that it ultimately wasn’t what she wanted, needed or deserved.\u00a0 Each of us have to look at our upside down and distorted reflection in the back of the spoon and ask our self … is this mess something I need to clean up .. or can I live with the sanifood?<\/p>\n

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