It’s definitely taking a turn towards life in the slow lane. Lazy mornings, afternoons of scenery, snacks, and cervesa, the chaotic fiesta of Latin nightlife just getting started, then early to bed in the silent lakeside darkness.
Going home tomorrow. So wakeup, cleanup, breakfast, 2 hour car ride to airport, hang out a bit there then fly home.
We deal (I dealt neener neener) with this all the time in the airline biz.
Planning for high reliability includes a lot of traveling early that usually proves to be unnecessary, but sometimes proves to have been vital. Some companies will pay that incremental premium frequently for higher reliability; most won’t.
Back in the 1970s when Guinness Stout was trying to break into the US market as a mainstream beer they had a famous ad campaign whose tagline was:
Guinness. I’ve never tried it and I don’t like it.
Of course the ad contents were all examples of somebody tasting it against their better judgement and having a taste-gasmic epiphany about the wonders of Guinness.
A lot of wisdom about human nature went into those ads. Hubs being a fine example thereof.
ETA: I now see Boo has added her far greater expertise ahead of my belated comments. And susan. It takes a village.
I’ve got some experience with the darn things. They should be effortful, not “very difficult”. At least for people of ordinary strength and agility. They’re easier to put on somebody else than on oneself.
If they are too difficult, they may not be the right size or shape. They come in quite a variety of contours and gripping strengths. It takes a pro to size them correctly, and somebody honest enough to not sell you the wrong size they happen to have in stock. We went around this bush a couple times before finding a good store willing to measure right and order the correct thing.
If anyone needs these, they really need them to be right.
One of the great advantages of silverware trays over silverware baskets is exactly this. I miss my old dishwasher with the silverware tray.
You left out the part where the Daleks attack Roomie for committing that horror.
No sign of eating reluctance there. Sounds like maybe you’ve got more of a cooking reluctance. Which is fully understandable given your life’s details.
The no-nesting worry applies to flatware baskets which hold the items vertically and let them flop around. A flatware tray like Doggio has and I had is a third very short rack typically above the ordinary glassware upper rack very close to the top of the dishwasher. Each item lays horizontally between little tines so they can’t flop around and bump into each other. Or nest. It’s like a little slide-out display case to show off your gunk-encrusted flatware. If you put all of one kind in one area, a simply scoop of the hand brings up all the salad forks or all the tablespoons or whatever. Super efficient to unload.
It’s a far superior design.