To be-moan the foam...groan

I was telling Will that I should have a "Catastrophe" series on this blog, because there seem to be enough disasters to sustain it's own section.

So, Will and I were house sitting for my dad, and of course I want to keep things even nicer than I found them. I decided to run the dishwasher. I put some Sunlight in, closed it and turned it on. Should be fine, right? Well, I was in the midst of making cookies when I noticed a LOT of foam on the floor, coming out of both sides of the dishwasher. Ah! All I could do was call Will's name helplessly. We both grabbed mops and mopped away at the foam. That should be good, we thought. I decided to open the dishwasher, and out came pouring MORE foam, and the entire inside of the dishwasher was FOAM, we could hardly see the dishes! Oops. Will turns to me and says, "Did you put regular dish detergent in?" "......yes..." I replied sheepishly. Problem solved, but foam still foaming. Will grabbed the shop vac and that seemed to deal with the foam quite well. Then I noticed all the foam draining to a particular crack in the floor. Calling to Will in the basement underneath the kitchen, "Will? Do you see a leak down there?" After a pause, "Yeah!" Great......He sucked it all up and that seemed to take care of the problem.

What did I learn from this? Always wash dishes by hand!

   [ posted by Anabee @ 9:36 PM ]