On Monday, I got to meet the coworkers, who asked all sorts of questions about Seattle, and tried to convince me to follow their duck on twitter. Apparently a duck was laying eggs outside the office, and they wanted to set up a camera for a live stream, and create a twitter account for the duck. They even wanted my input on what to name the duck! Hah! I got as far as "Quackmire" before realizing that if the duck was laying eggs, it had to be a girl...
Later on, I finally got my first moment of the "you do WHAT??" variety of culture shock. I'm rather surprised it took this long, and even more surprised that it was something so random. We were washing dishes one night, and we had just filled a small tub with hot, soapy water, and begun the chore. Soon, the tub was full, and we turned off the hot water. "So, uh, where do you rinse them?" I asked. I was informed that rinsing was unnecessary, as long as most of the bubbles were off, and then drying them with a towel would suffice. I was rather flabbergasted, and proceeded to rinse the bubbles as best as I could with the soapy water.
"Are you crazy?" I asked. "Eww!! How can you not rinse your dishes?" I was again reassured that they were clean. Later on, I failed to get all the potato residue off a masher, and was told that for all my freaking out about the soap, I didn't even get the dish all the way clean.
"Well, I would have seen it if it wasn't COVERED IN SOAP!" I retorted. We "argued" about the soap until all the dishes were put away, and to this moment, I'm a little weirded out by it, but, well... all of my food has tasted fine thus far, and I haven't gotten sick yet, so... well, if it's normal here... still trying to wrap my head around it!
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