I just made an amazing discovery. One that will go down in the annals
of notbob history as the single most useful, perfect, stupendously
amazing device in the whole kitchen. I'm speaking, of course, of that
sprayer thingie next to the faucet. Who knew!? No kidding. This
thing has been sitting on our sink since I got here, and has remained
completely untouched in the two years since. I started using it a
couple days ago and have come to discover it's freakin' brilliant!

It smokes all other cleaning devices. It can blow the crud off a
screen strainer in mere seconds. Rinse all sides of the sink without
helper containers. Rinse large pans without knocking everything
within two arms length off the counter. Scare the crap out of the dog
when it comes begging. Un-beee-leevable!

I guess the reason why I've eschewed this particular device all these
years --there were accomadations for one in my last place and I never
even considered installing one-- is that my grandparents always
sternly admonished my brother and I to not TOUCH that thingie under
the horrible threat of NO DESSERT! or some other heinous retribution.
I can't believe that "rule" has remained so deeply ingrained in me,
literally all me life! All the more bizarre as I've worked as a
resaurant dishwasher a couple times and in the pearl diver fraternity,
we live and die by those squirty things. Yet, I unconsciously didn't
even consider touching that little do-hickey in my own abode, despite
it being just inches away. Jaysus! ...talk about childhood baggage.

nb