I like a cup of coffee but my favorite cup is white and starts to have a nasty look after a few cups of coffee. There is simple a solution, simply take the cup, add dishsoap, hot water and do a bit of scrubbing. It pretty much always works. The client actually must truly think that cleanliness is next to godliness as in every kitchen is a really big bottle of cleaner. It is generic cleaner and can be used to clean floors, sinks, dishes, pretty much anything. The bottle has a label with fifteen different languages describing the contents.
The bottle is fairly horrible looking which makes you think of cleaning toilets and such – who wants that image in their head when cleaning their coffee cup. That’s why I actually purchase a popular dish soap and bring it to work. I am not Rockefeller so I usually purchase a generic dish soap. It only has one language and it is supposed to do a real bang up job according to the commercials.
I had started bringing in dish soap some years ago when I discovered it is a cheap effective way to have a clean cup for my coffee. I was the only one who purchased it but not too many other people used it and those who did used it sparingly.
Imagine my surprise one day when I came into the kitchen to use some soap to discover that the new bottle from yesterday was now half full. The only thing that I can imagine is that somebody else also had a bottle of dish soap and one day while wandering the halls (instead of increasing shareholder equity) they found what looked to be a new source of free soap.
Is embarrassing the right word when the people at work “borrow” soap like this? Almost assuredly everybody at the client makes a very comfortable wage and should be able to purchase their own 0.79 cent bottle of soap, well, a few days later my cleaning sponges started to disappear as well.