Further Decor Negotiations

Well, Gary won the battle of the loveseat. I have given up and now every morning I rearrange the living room. I have let it go.

I had to let it go becuase there is a new battle front: the Battle of The Spinning Utensil Holder.

At some point when Gary was cooking he bought this so his spatulas / spatulae would all be in easy reach. Since he got sick, he has taken a giant step back on the food prep, so I decided that since I am the only one using the utensils, I decide where they go.

He had decided to place them  next to the microwave, so when you spin them they bang into the microwave. I took a firm hand and re-prioritized the kitchen. The Sous Vide container in front of the toaster went under the sink, replaced by the spinning spatula thing. Spatula carousel?  Ladle-go-round?

The next morning I woke up and the spatula spinner was no longer where I put it, spinning freely in front of the toaster. Why? “IT BLOCKS THE TOASTER.”

(He hasn’t used the toaster in months. The sous vide blocked the toaster more.)

Quietly in the night I put the toaster in front of the spinny thing, so there is full toaster access and yet the spinny thing still spins.

Even though I thought this was a good compromise, the next morning I woke up to “DON’T THINK YOU'RE FOOLING ME WITH THIS TOASTER THING.”

I haven’t moved it. I’m standing firm.

Comments

[KC]

Oh, dear. This would not be my preferred communications/compromise methodology at ALL.

(also: yes: the one who uses the things is the one who gets to decide where they go, etc. Although augh I wish I could convince spouse to not put sharp knives in the dishwasher, where they get blunt more rapidly. But mostly we get along well with compromises where applicable and a whole lot of deciding not to care that Spouse Spaces are not arranged maximally efficiently, etc.)

[TheQueen]

KC - now see, Gary loves sharpening the knives, so there’s no way the argument that something is knife-dulling would have any weight.

[KC]

If someone sharpens the knives, then they're welcome to dull them! I mean, within limits. Kind of like dish-dirtying: if someone else is going to wash the dishes, then it is relevant for the cook to not dirty twice the number of dishes needed for a recipe. If the cook is going to wash the dishes, they can get nearly every dish in the kitchen dirty, and that's *fine* because they're cleaning it up. (I mean: potentially annoying, in a "you are being inefficient!" way, but really: fine.)

We just have been having progressively duller knives. But now we have a bench stone and I am learning/have learned the basics of how to use it, so the knives are now making progress towards being able to slice carrots again...

[TheQueen]

KC - i have given up questioning Gary’s inefficiency on dishes. He runs the dishwasher even if it hasn’t been unloaded. He did us a great favor though by spotting that running the dishwasher makers the garbage disposer leak.