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the problematic mushroom people

the problematic mushroom people

living in the spray arms

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Jim Dalling
Feb 09, 2025
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It has been said that mushroom people are fun guys.

They can be problematic.

They live in our dishwasher.

They’ve blocked the spray arms like some sort of idiotic just stop oil rush hour traffic blocking protest.

I DON’T LIKE YOU

I scream at the mushrooms.

That doesn’t work.

Laura picks at the mushrooms. Some she gets out of the spray arms with a paperclip. Mostly she just kinda fucks their shit up a bit

When she comes with a paperclip in hand, the mushroom people scream with bloodcurdling horror.

I scream at them again

NOBODY LIKES YOU!

They know this.

Why else would they block the spray arms of your dishwasher.

Today though?

The situation got a lot worse.

It wasn’t just the mushroom people blocking the water in the dishwasher’s spray arms.

The pump stopped pumping and the door catch stopped latching.

Coming this with needing to rid myself of the mushroom people infested spray arms and it seems that this fool was in the market for a new dishwasher.

Once the new dishwasher is installed, I’ll proba…

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