It's from a Bruno Mars song where one lyric is "I'll catch a grenade for you"
The joke is that if a person seriously means that about someone, then they should do minor chores around the house without being prompted by their significant other.
There was a Mad Magazine comic. A dude talking to this girl. How he’d lasso the moon. Corral the stars. Move a mountain…. As he’s saying this, it starts to rain and he keeps the umbrella for himself. Then continues - climb a tower….
"Well, the thing is, the grenade would most likely kill me, so it'd be over quick...but the dishes take like, 15 minutes? Then my hands will be all wrinkly afterwards, ew."
I had to explain to my wife (whom I love dearly) how much it bothers me that she never voluntarily washes the dishes. I will sometimes have things I'm doing, or be extremely tired on a day she has off, and I'll still walk into the kitchen and find a sink piled gosh with dirty dishes.
Now she shares* that load... But it still feels weird to see everything cleaned when I didn't do it.
This is how my husband is with the flippin' floors. I love him and he does a lot so usually I just let it slide but I swear I'm tired of being the only person that seems to notice crumbs and trash on the floor. He always says "Just tell me when you need it done" and I'm like BRO! It's dirty right now and it's gonna be dirty again tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that...
People have different definitions of "need" there are people that won't let w single dish sit without cleaning it and there are people that won't do dishes until every single one is dirty. Unless these things are actually discussed they're never going to find that place. It has nothing to do with how much they care.
Yep. When I was a SAHM I would make dinner after a long day, we'd eat, then my husband and I would sit down with the kids for homework time, a little family time, then bedtime for the kids, and then finally some peace and quiet.
There was no way on God's green earth I was going to then do the dishes, lol. That chore sat until morning.
I dunno, I kinda feel like there's a point before Every Dish Dirty at which you demonstrate a lack of care toward your home and the people you share it with, or a number of days they sit.
Kinda seems like you're asking to be micromanaged, which will then be labeled as "nagging."
Exactly. Just bc you feel the need to do the dishes WHILE WE ARE STILL USING THEM TO EAT does not make me lazy or inconsiderate it makes you unreasonable.
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u/Sinphony_of_the_nite 1d ago
It's from a Bruno Mars song where one lyric is "I'll catch a grenade for you"
The joke is that if a person seriously means that about someone, then they should do minor chores around the house without being prompted by their significant other.