He Jinxed it...

Posted by Sari

I am sure that most of you know by now that I hate doing dishes. Not just dislike, hate. Just few weeks back I did a careful search for the ugliest glazed earthenware plate we had and smashed to the floor just to let out some of my dishwashing rage.

Few weeks back I was also feeling very tired and hopeless and probably had PMS, so my hormones deciced to do a full days worth of crying first to Jukka's poor befuddled oncologist (Tuomo, number three), then to my parents and by the way of rounding up the day I drafted my sister as the audience in the evening. And just to make my despair more dramatically coherent I ended up telling my parents how washing dishes has come to symbolise this and that and then they offered to buy me a dishwasher.

Which was nice. Was more than nice. Was wonderful. And I did not have the strength fo character to say thanks but no thanks. So now I have a dishwasher and a dilemma. What to do next time I feel like a shoulder to cry on? Being cheered up by household appliances is very nice, but, you know, I am supposed to be all grown up an all...

The jinxing bit refers to the fact that if you confidently predict that delivery guys are bringing your delivery today like Jukka did in Finnish in the last post, it usually means that mr. Murphy steps into the picture. Case in point: I just had a call from our Mr. delivery guy who was delivering our dishwasher to wrong adress, and not even in the same city... I predict it will take some time for him to get here.

Comments

[jukkahoo]

It's there, it's bloody there! No jinx here, that's Mr. Makkonen's job. I just... never mind.

It looks well and good. Now all we need is some detergent (or what you call it) in order to operate the thing. It's a Zanussi. It needs a name.

[Ben]

How about "Mr Cleanie", as a name I mean.
Well it was just a silly suggestion...

[Marko]

Onko pesukone mies vai naispuolinen... itse ehdottaisin jotain typerää, mutta en sano mitään, joten annan vain listan oudoista feminiineistä ehdotuksista:
Maija Poppanen
vaimoke
mummo
PikkuBorg (tämänkin voi tietysti ymmärtää naispuoliseksi...)

Parasta lopettaa, ennen kun nolaan itseni lopullisesti...

[Veriveli und Saripee2]

Yo, blood brother, and Saripee1: The main function of the
dear machine is to take the dirt away, "veks" as you
"stadilaiset" so nicely put it, so... "VeksVeli" (Vexi to the friends) sounds quite nice
after a few drinks over here. Your mileage may vary.

Also, as the dear machine is your latest family member,
how about "Kuopus"? Naah, too plain...

Saripee2 suggests F3C7 (meaning, of course, our golden friend
C3PO, but refuses to remember that correctly).

"Humanitary Help" also springs to mind (nicknamed "Humis"),
now that we read the Text TV News. (I believe you'll
find "Hard Days Night" (Hardis) not too suitable, anyhow).

Of course, a good old hard worker name might just be "it"
(eikä nyt puhuta siitä, terveisiä Juhalle), so how about
"Paavo" (nicknamed "Lippis")?

"Puhtoinen lähiöni"? (Puhis, or Lähis, as you wish).

"ÄKSY"? (Ärsyttävien keittiövälineiden siivousyksikkö,
Cleaning Unit for Necessary Tableware).

And, of course the obvious suggestion will be just the
thing that got you the dear machine in the first place:
"PMS"! (Are we clever, or are we clever? Wait! Don't answer!)
PMS being, as you surely guessed: "PesuMaSiina", or
"Paskat Menkööt Sihtiin", or "Pese Meidän Sotkumme",
or, "Pelkästään Meidän Siivoojamme",
or, "Pyydä Muistaessasi Selitystä!",
(what do you mean "that's obscure"? How should _we_ know, it's your dishwasher!)
or (ta-dam!) "Precious Muck Stripper".
(Notice the "ratkiriemukas" Tolkien reference).

Well, we guess this is the point we made fools of ourselves,
(see Marko, we are not wussies, and not afraid of that), and
since all the booze is done anyway, we quit the
"tajunnan-olavi-virta" at this point.

Welcome, the new family member, whatever you will be called!

PS: (What's wrong with "Za-Nussi", anyway?)