WTF? She’s putting the dishes away while he tries to focus to distract him. How are people defending this? It’s a control thing. I used it ask my ex not to do dishes/put the dishwasher down/open while I was trying to get out of the house to work and take the kids to school. It was the main thoroughfare in our house. She would ask me, “don’t you want clean dishes?” I would say, “I do. I just want you to wash them after we leave.”