"If you put soap on a pile of dirt does that make it clean?"...

Okay... I need to vent a little...

I just have to preface this story by saying that I am married to the most AMAZING man! For those of you who don't know him very well, my Hubs is pretty darn perfect!! There is honestly VERY LITTLE that I can complain about when it comes to him or our marriage... so with that being said, the handful of things that he does that DO get under my skin really irriate the heck out of me!! And this story is about one of them...
I guess I should also tell you folks that I am a little bit anal... ok A LOT anal!! But I just see it as being organized and knowing what I like and how I like things done... If I had to be brutally honest about myself, when it comes to certain aspects of my life (like my home) I tend to be a control freak & maybe a bit bossy ;) So needless to say I only feel a sense of calm when my home is clean and in order & done the way I like it done! I would also call myself a clean freak and a total germ-a-phob too! Anyhoo...

So last night, the Hubs did something that IRRIATES the tar out of me!! >=[

By our kitchen sink, we have this "dish scrubber sponge" that has a compartment for soap that we use to scrape food off of dishes before we put them in the dishwasher. We've had this thing forever & it's kinda gross cause it has food bits in between the bristles. We also have a "clean" sponge for when we need to handwash dishes that I change every few weeks when I feel we've used it enough & is starting to get a little germie.

So the CONSTANT battle in our marriage is that the Hubs CONTINUALLY uses the NASTY, FOOD-RIDDEN, GERM-FILLED "dish scrubber" to wash dishes!!! {really, as I'm typing this, I want to vomit at the thought that he thinks this thing gets stuff clean enough to eat off of!} SERIOUSLY?! -if we ran a restaurant we would get shut down if we cleaned dishes with this thing!

I know some of you out there are thinking, I should be grateful that my husband even cleans up and does the dishes- and I AM very grateful! But how grateful can I be when I have to go back a re-clean it or blow a fuse everytime I catch him doing it because we have the same arguement over and over again! Yes, that's right I CATCH HIM! When he doesn't think I'm paying attention, I'm secretly watching to see what sponge he's gonna pick up! (and yes, I know how silly this may sound, and I DO have a life, I am just really grossed out by this!!) {C'MON- WHEN DOES IT CLICK TO STOP USING THIS THING IF I GET SO MAD EVERYTIME IT HAPPENS??!!} One would think at this point he might be doing it on purpose just to tick me off, but my sweet husband is not that calculating or mean!... he just doesn't think sometimes when he's in the middle of a task :)

So last night, we used the indoor grill to cook dinner. Since it can't be put in the dishwasher, I started to wash it in the sink... Well my dear husband offered to take over once he saw me struggeling to get all the food bits off. {So nice of him!} Well this time I wasn't watching him clean it cause I was doing something else. He cleaned the grill and put everything away...
A few mintues later, I went up to the sink to wash my hands. There were two dirty knives in the sink (we have a knife set that we don't put in the dishwasher cause the blades will rust so we handwash them)...

Me- "Why didn't you wash these 2 knives while you were washing the grill?"
Hubs- "Oh sorry, I didn't think about it cause I was just using the dish scrubber to clean the grill."
{SILENCE...} At this point, the hubs just realizes he told on himself...
Me- "??!?!?!?!?!??!?! SERIOUSLY ???!?!??!?!?!?... I AM SICK OF HAVING THIS CONVERSATION EVERY WEEK!! DO.NOT.USE.THAT.THING.TO.WASH.DISHES!!! IT'S FILTHY!!! {as I'm throwing away the dish scrubber as his punishment!}

I don't understand why we have to treat our husbands like little children sometimes? I've threatened to throw that thing away numerous occasions! (and as silly as that sounds, Hubs does not want me throwing it away & gets mad whenever I say I'm gonna toss it!) He's normally the one who loads the dishwasher, so the dish scrubber is his little sidekick :) Probably throwing that thing away was the equivalent of me taking away a video game from a child! {You just have to know my sweet husband! He's a bit of a clean freak too- but not as anal as muah :)} I'm really quite surprised he didn't dig it out of the trash, but he probably knew how FURIOUS I was and didn't want to risk me going into total "crazy lady mode!" ...

So the Hub's rationale for this whole thing is that, since the dish scrubber has soap in it, he thinks it makes it clean {Nevermind, the food bits in the bristles that have been in there since who knows when!?}
My rationale is, if you put soap on a pile of dirt does that make it clean? -The answer is no, folks! It's just a pile of dirt with soap on top! The only way to clean is with a germ/dirt free sponge! So let that be your lesson for the day!... along with knowing what to do if you completely want to get under my skin! :) LOL

P.S. I did not get the grill back out to re-clean it last night. Hubs had already packed it away in the pantry & it is a pain to get out... but you better believe that the next time we use it again, my sweet husband will have to use the "clean sponge" to wash it before we grill!... don't think I'll be forgeting either- cause I'm an anal, control-freak like that! LOL ;)