My son and I think differently. It's the logical, engineering mind meets the creative, sociable mind. When I started to open the dishwasher this week to unload it and do my share of kitchen-related tasks, my son piped up, "All the utensils are grouped together in the baskets so you can put them away easier."
Sure enough, all the forks were hanging out in their own little baskets, all the large spoons were together, and so on. The pre-planning made the putting-away a little easier. There was no chronological order, however, in the sense that the utensils go in according to "arrival times," which enables the kitchen help to see when the dishwasher should be started because the last basket is full of dirty utensils. I would never have thought of organizing them before I put them in. His method would never have occurred to me.
I still prefer the chronological method with the sorting at the end rather than the beginning. But isn't it amazing how differently we think to solve the same problem. Different mindsets for different minds. Who would have "thunk" it.
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