Mum Boycotts Doing the Dishes in This Epic Standoff With Her Family
Mum Boycotts Doing the Dishes in This Epic Standoff With Her Family
We’ve all been there. We’ve all had those days of feeling unappreciated. The days when we contemplate going on strike in a moment of frustration with the sheer amount of laziness from our families.
While some of us merely entertain the thought of going on strike, this mum from the UK actually did it. Twitter user Miss Potkin shared updates from her epic standoff with her family over a period of three days. That’s right, it took three days for them to notice and clean up after themselves. And that only happened because they ran out of clean cups and toilet paper!
Miss Potkin’s tale of an epic dishwashing face-off went wildly viral because it’s hilarious and painfully relatable for anyone who has had to live with someone who refuses to help out.
Two days ago, I decided to stop doing the dishes. I make all the dinners and I am tired of having to do all the cleaning too. SINCE THEN this pile has appeared and at some point they are going to run out of spoons and cups and plates.
Who will blink first? Not me. pic.twitter.com/IZkOwP3a6B
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 17, 2021
NOT ME FUCKERS. pic.twitter.com/s0FkRKVURy
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 17, 2021
Day 3 – they’ve used the last of the big bowls and they’ve run out of spoons. No one is saying anything about the big pile but I can hear their brains ticking. No, family, I will not be loading the dishwasher today.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
WE HAVE MOVEMENT! The bin is being emptied after 965 days. pic.twitter.com/P3T5W4YPFn
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Spoke too soon. Irish has resorted to making tea with the baby’s weaning spoon and it using the emergency cup. pic.twitter.com/BMR6kuXLzs
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Let me know when you want to talk about the fact that I stopped doing the laundry too. It’s getting a bit post apocalyptic. The piles are everywhere. pic.twitter.com/9NEUIVExwE
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
There is a pan on the cooker with a single sausage in it. It’s been there for two days. I can’t look at it because it’s turned the colour of the man that washes up in Cast Away.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
The last of the loo roll in the downstairs loo was used at 7:04pm last night. It hasn’t been replaced. They downstairs loo is now out of action for anyone that remembers. For anyone that doesn’t…god help them.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Going for a shower to cleanse my soul.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
*sucks teeth* pic.twitter.com/C5C82weeZj
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
*David Attenborough voiceover* Now this is a most fascinating pile, a rare mix of items that historians will struggle to explain in years to come… pic.twitter.com/9QGuXk8hbG
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
*David Attenborough’s extremely excited voice* Here we have some uniform, fragments of a monitor arm and some school uniform, all bundled closely together in the corner of the spare room. It’s been there for 36 days, unmoving, biding its time, but for WHAT? The mysteries of man. pic.twitter.com/fXKLWNUSoo
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
SOMEONE JUST FORGOT THAT THERE’S NO TOILET ROLL IN THE DOWNSTAIRS LOO. Omg this is exciting.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Urgh no, stand down, hand wash.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
The sausage of death. pic.twitter.com/a8DcDulfFT
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
MOTHERF… pic.twitter.com/X5mwJBdwA6
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
God give me strength. pic.twitter.com/Sp5870VmcV
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Someone just discovered the joy of scraping rock hard old cereal off a bowl. Big day, BIG, huge. pic.twitter.com/gitNEI55xz
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
27 seconds of trying to scape that bowl, now multiply that by 6, and then multiply that by 7, then subtract the number of fucks I have left to give.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
FUCKING HELL, IT’S HAPPENING! pic.twitter.com/z6wONAMTv6
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Guys…
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Q – Do I switch on the dishwasher? It’s killing me. Knowing the dishwasher is full but just sitting there is KILLING ME. pic.twitter.com/2fXovlwpIR
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
I see that judgey fucking Twitter has woken up so let me say this once and be clear – We do not ‘live like this’. This is a lesson in wanting to be heard and respected and not having to repeat yourself when things slip. We’re navigating the day-today in extraordinary times and
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
for me, the past two days have been funnier than anything else. I think we’re all entitled to run our own experiments, be amused, push a situation to its limit if we so choose. No one needs to be lectured by those that have failed to see the silly joy in what’s happening here.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
4:41pm The dishwasher still isn’t on. The stress.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
BUT LOOK! Toilet roll has appeared! The downstairs loo is back in action! pic.twitter.com/103UXXUimi
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
And every other loo! The toilet paper stacking is extremely Costco. There’s A LOT. Everywhere. SO MUCH LOO ROLL. pic.twitter.com/OIXSC0d5c6
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
We keep our homes tidy because love. We cook food and set tables and fill the air with scents of roses and fresh laundry because love. Love is patient but love is also fucking tired because she works 14 hour days.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
I know we are ALL tired but I am most tired. Me. I AM ALL THE TIRED.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Dinner is happening. I have used two pans and one knife. The last knife. I’ve got 3 more pans and then it’s baking sheets 🙁
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
OH BUT WAIT! pic.twitter.com/kssuyAZR9B
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Me: Did you not want to switch the dishwasher on earlier?
Irish: I ran out of time
Me:
Irish:
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
The dishwasher is now on. pic.twitter.com/jBEl10JZGe
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Me walking into the kitchen
Him: Don’t step there! There’s mess on the floor! *starts cleaning*
Wait what?
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
DOES HE KNOW?
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Well it’s happened ❤️ pic.twitter.com/2Xzt2DtYhe
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
3 days. 3 days of not washing or picking up or tidying. ?
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
WE MADE IT! (I’m not doing that again) pic.twitter.com/3UK3mSD59A
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
You’re gonna have good days, bad days, and a lot of fuck it days, but people don’t like being taken for granted, especially by the ones they love the most. Period.
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
THAT IS NOT WORSE THAN ‘LIVE LAUGH LOVE’ but yeah, it’s close. I fucking hate myself. ?
— Miss Potkin (@MissPotkin) March 18, 2021
Well said, Miss Potkin!
Now, I wonder if this would actually work at my house…
Source: Twitter/Miss Potkin
Jill Slater
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