1. When you leave small food in the pot so you don’t have to wash it.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472391586/lpyhhcw4w6hhjcmvmz2o.jpg)
No time, abeg.
2. When your mum shouts at you for not doing the dishes, and you go to the sink and see:
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472391072/e4x59r73auhqpoxdgvcq.jpg)
Are you kidding me?
3. When your mother uses all the pots in the kitchen to cook one meal.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2020/02/DRIVES-OFF-435x580-2.png)
It’s because you’re not the one washing, abi?
4. Your parents, when you go to sleep with dishes still in the sink:
![](https://media.giphy.com/media/lqpy0wwKTZyAUylTRc/giphy.gif)
You people should chill small na.
5. When you’re already standing by the sink with a sponge and your mum says, “Remember to wash those plates.”
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472395721/lomd1wf2nruwabsjgha6.png)
Do you think I want to eat the sponge?
6. When you’re doing the dishes and your mother starts complaining that you’re wasting water.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2020/02/eye-roll-chilld-690x508-1-e1581496337845.jpg)
Should I use my saliva?
7. The STRUGGLE of washing stew out of this:
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472391072/jxhzqwy3omrgybibykl0.jpg)
The absolute worst.
8. You, after washing plates with dried eba stains on them:
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2016/06/Untitled-design-2020-06-01T154402.110.png)
The struggle is too real.
9. How the sink looks when you’re not around:
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2020/05/stock-photo-nobody-kitchen-dirty-home-dishes-099f3c4e-b9e5-4cb7-98ac-d37083ae49f5.jpg)
Be waiting for me oh!
10. When your parents make you do the dishes at someone else’s house.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2020/01/stressed.png)
So, I’m now house-help for rent?
11. When you tell your mother that dish-washing liquid has finished and she just pours water inside.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472391587/b6zf67febaerxqqpfyby.jpg)
If you can wash well with diluted morning fresh, you can do anything.
12. When you break a plate while doing the dishes.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472395983/nbklu6uk5cuxkezflnen.jpg)
It’s all over.
13. When you’re almost done and someone drops another plate in the sink.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2020/02/Screenshot-2020-02-24-at-10.03.04-AM.jpg)
Are you not wicked?
14. When your mother is doing the dishes and you try to add your own.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472395943/odprub3vrgrcgnpyo1q8.jpg)
Sorry ma.
15. You, acting like you didn’t see that dirty pot on the cooker:
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2016/06/BLIND.jpg)
I’ve tried, abeg.
16. Mother: “Why didn’t you wash the pot?”
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/cloudinary/v1472396006/k0r8nqhs5unq2ujhfhee.png)
The ultimate excuse.
17. When you finish and your mother complains that you didn’t dry the sink well.
![](https://c7684bdb45.mjedge.net/wp-content/uploads/zikoko/2020/06/image-6.png)
Hay God!