Outdoor Dining Set
This past summer I learned a hard lesson about using my regular plates and glasses when we were eating outside. My daughter decided that she wanted to use the tablecloth I had over the picnic table for a cape, but she didn’t ask anyone first. She just grabbed a hold of it and pulled it off. Everything went on to the ground, and most of it broke. It took me an hour to pick up the glass and even then I couldn’t be sure. We took our food inside to eat and had to later move the picnic table to a different spot. Right after that happened I went out and bought an outdoor dining set so that I didn’t have to worry about that again.
I found the outdoor dining set in a local discount store. Though I had to buy some of the stuff separately, I found a great deal on what I needed. I got them in an assortment of colors that went well together. All together I think my outdoor dining set cost me about twenty five dollars, and I thought that was a great deal. It would have been a great deal had I paid attention to what I was buying.
I took the set home and soaked them in soapy water. We used the outdoor dining set a few days later and we decided it was definitely a smart move to get them. I had ever purchased a plastic pitcher for our drink. I guess I’m not as smart as I thought I was though, because I took the outdoor dining set inside and put everything in the dishwasher. This was not the smartest move I could have made. Though the pitcher came out ok, everything else was warped from the heat of the dishwasher.
When my husband opened the dishwasher to make this discovery, he was at least polite enough not to laugh out loud at me. The outdoor dining set was pretty much ruined, but he knew it might not be the best time to point that out. I picked up a warped plate and told him it was a new form of art, and I knew what I was doing. Later that night we had a good laugh and decided we should wait until next summer to get another outdoor dining set. Perhaps we had just better eat inside for a while.
