i helped with dishes, kinda, sorta, maybe

 

We had tacos for lunch. 

I wonder if tacos is something that Americans invented. I wonder if anyone in Mexico eats tacos. I wonder if it is what Americans think Mexican people eat, or should eat. I wonder if I think too much. I wonder what you think about tacos or if I think too much.

I was pretty sure that I helped Pam with the dishes afterwards. However I did not receive “brownie points”. This is too bad because I need "brownie points". I need lots of 'em. This (my not getting "brownie points") may be a travesty of justice. 

Or maybe not. 

You decide.

I am sure you are very curious to know what happened, and well you should be. Good for you!

We had finished eating tacos. This creates dirty dishes. When you own a dishwasher its purpose is to wash the dishes and make them clean. However most people do not want to put really dirty dishes in the dishwasher so they clean them first so that the dishwasher can clean them again, or some more, whatever the case may be.

So Pam was cleaning the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher for them to be cleaned, or re-cleaned.

While she was doing this I was watching a YouTube video of a cat playing the piano.

Suddenly, and without warning, I spotted a dirty dish that was sitting on the counter. From her vantage point she could not see this dirty dish. I picked it up and tried to hand it to her but she was too busy, to see my helpful gesture, so I said, “Here Pam”, to get her attention. 

She took the dish. It was unceremonious. One could say it was curt, or abrupt. Or even brusque. (I don’t really know what brusque means, but any word with a “Q” in it is a good word.)

Then I said, “Aren't you happy that I helped with the dishes”.

Apparently this was a mistake. I wasn’t able to see it beforehand, but looking back on it now I can see it was a mistake. And I had help seeing it was a mistake which makes it all the more clear that it was certainly a mistake. 

Apparently to “help” you have to do more that sit on your chair while a cat is playing the piano on your phone and say “here”. 

So no "brownie points".

So now I know and I’ll do better next time. 

July 11, 2026