Plumming is on the fritz. In April of 2006 I was hunched over my bathtub for two hours washing my dishes and then running with them to the kitchen to place them in the dryer rack. Good times.
p.s. I have never lived in a dwelling with a dishwashing machine -- EVER. I often forget such new-fangled devices exist and I suspect that quite a large number of North Americans forget that a great many people wash their dishes by hand.