Why does MIL make fun of everything?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s so weird about wiping the food from a dinner plate into the trash using a paper towel? It’s not perhaps the most common practice but why is objectionable?

I'll set aside that OP isn't composting and is just tossing everything in the trash, but why not just use silverware to scrape off the plates?

Why not just use the paper towels?

It can be unsanitary. There is plenty of food that's going to seep through the paper towel and get on your fingers. Would you wipe the plate with your fingers?

Do you not have a dishwasher?

DP. It's not good to leave all that gunk in your dishwasher. It gets stuck in the trap, in the pipes, and becomes a "fat berg" in the sewers and becomes all of our problem. Much better in the trash. Are you my husband?

Sigh. I’ll type slowly for you. You use the paper towel to get the “gunk” off your dishes, then throw the paper towel in the trash. Then you put the dish that your fingers may have touched through the paper towel (*gasp* *horror*) in the dishwasher, which removes your Evil Finger Germs from said plates when it runs its cycle, and you wash your damn hands with soap and water,

All caught up now?

DP but normal people just use utensils for this job.

You really can’t fathom that not everyone needs to do things your exact way?

Where did I say I can't fathom it? Normal people don't do it that way, the abnormal do. Why get your hands involved if you don't have to? I would say it's also weird to have the dog lick all the plates and then just stick them in the dishwasher. Feel free to disagree, but it doesn't change my opinion. Sometimes there are better ways to go about things.

Wrong again, but doubling down on your wrongness apparently.

Nope. But just keep doing it your weird way.

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Psa to anyone here spending one iota of time thinking about napkins. Pls stop. It does not make you classier, you are wasting your time, pls spend that time doing literally anything else. Only ppl factoring climate into decision making have valid points

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OP, your MIL does this because she is obnoxious. So sad for her. I'm sure many people avoid her because she is so obnoxious. She has a sad life.

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Anonymous wrote:In our house, we do not use paper napkins or cloth napkins regularly while eating any meal. We wash our hands before and after our meals. And we use silverware. No problems.

- happy immigrant.

Where are you from and what are your typical meals?

We've had pizza and tacos over the past week. Sandwiches for lunch. We eat those with our hands.

Looking back over the past 30 days or so, did you have any meal eaten with your hands?