"Who would want a dishwasher?"

Marash Girl, (being rather snippy, don't you think?) once asked her mother, here known as Grandma Jennie, the following quesion: "Who would want a dishwasher?" Grandma Jennie looked at Marash Girl rather strangely, as if to say, "This daughter of mine does not understand? Have I really spoiled her that much?" What Marash Girl's mother's daughter did not understand, was that doing the dishes especially at the end of a festive meal, was a time for the women (and yes, it was only women in those days) . . . time for the women to socialize, gossip, joke, with no men around (hmmm . . . wonder what those jokes were all about . . . ) N.B. And further . . . that when it was not a festive meal and the other women were not around to socializa, gossip, and joke . . . the woman of the house would be there doing dishes all by her lonesome. Not so much fun!!!