My OH is another one who puts his cup/plate on the worktop rather than in the washing up bowl. Never offers to do a meals worth of washing up when it's needed to be done but if he makes himself something like boiled eggs he will fill the bowl with water, enough liquid to do three lots, and then wash his plate/egg cup etc. If I have left dishes to drain from earlier meal he will then put his wet stuff in amongst it - noooo you put the dry stuff away first!!
The Robin serenading from the tree while he's waiting for me to put his breakfast out. Mrs Blackbird appearing on the patio to look for hers too. The Pheasant who visits my friend, looking in the patio doors while he's waiting for her to put out his food.
oh dear, I do that ( place used mugs on the worktop just above the dishwasher.)
. Another is when he's washing up a couple of things, he then takes everything out of the dishwasher to wash by hand 
. Because, he says, why waste the water? Well why not put the 'couple of things' you were washing up in the dishwasher?Richard E Grant's Very Modern Odyessey
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