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[serene]

The toffee is on the stove (we're going to sogwife's family for T-day in a little while), the house is mostly cleaned up (the ants are back, but they Will Not Win), and I got plenty of sleep last night. It was really nice to wake up to no dirty dishes.

Me: "I know our place has been getting more and more like a coffeeshop lately, but you know what would have been really helpful? One of those carts with bus tubs on them."

Him: *looks at me with incredulity and starts laughing uproariously*

Me: But-- but-- wouldn't that have been helpful?

Him, still laughing, and making me laugh: Serene, sweetie, I think that bus tubs are a line we don't want to be crossing.

Me: But wouldn't they have been helpful, though?

Him: Yes, they would have been helpful. But a paid staff would have been helpful, too!

*both dissolve into laughter*

Harrumph. Oh, all right. No bus tubs.

Comments

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

The flickering neon sign reads "Eats" already.

[ailbhe]

What's a bus tub?

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

I am *so* glad that I'm not the only person who has thought like this.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

The plastic tubs some restaurants use to put dirty dishes into so they can cart them back to the sinks from whatever central dish-collection location they use.

[firecat]

I say if you want bus tubs, you should have bus tubs. A bus tub in every home!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

We have a bus tub -- we bought it for Pesach.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a home with a three-tiered cart on casters. At times, there was a bus tub (of sorts) on one of the tiers. How else are 1970s hostesses supposed to clear the table quickly when hosting 16 guests? Plus, it's an easy way to transport the chafing dishes to and from the buffet.

uh oh...

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

we HAVE one of those tubs! It lives by the sink, and is the receptacle for any dish piles in the normal course of daily life. It's REALLY big, the one we have, more shallow than the tubs in restaurants, but longer, by quite a bit. We got it at a restaurant supply store. And we love it ;)

Actually, we removed it last night because it took up the only good counter space for turkey carving - go figure!

Paid staff might have been handy though - for sure!

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I once pressed a laundry basket into service for this very purpose. No cart on wheels, so I made do with a lackey dinner guest.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Without the context to make the meaning clear, I would have been perversely inclined to assume it had something to do with public transport.