That didn't make any sense to me. You shouldn't have to wash the goddamn dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. If you have to do that, it's not a dishWASHER, it's a dishRINSER.
So I would just load the dishwasher without pre-rinsing. But my miniature rebellion didn't do me much good. It just meant another day in the trenches because if the dishes didn't come out clean, it stayed "my turn".
When I was 8, I shared a room with my younger brother and sister. We had to clean it every so often and I would always be "the foreman". We were supposed to trade every 10 minutes so that they could sit on the top bunk and yell directions. But I was the only one who could tell time. Knowledge is power.
I couldn't work a con for "my turn" on dishes, though, so eventually I bit the big one and got in the habit of the pre-rinse. I still didn't like it, though.
Fast forwarding 10 years, our apartment has a dishwasher, and... You guessed it: You have to wash the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. But the dishwasher has recently broken down. It no longer latches in the front. The little stick handle won't lock with the unit.
I called Walt, our maintenance man, and he came out to look at it. When he saw it, he wrinkled up his nose and started poking at it like an archealogical relic. After he took stock of various corrosion, he said that we're a prime candidate for a new dishwasher. Prime. I guess our dishwasher has been in the apartment since it was built in the early 80's. That's a lot of longevity for a dishwasher.
My hope is that we get a super-new dishwasher with all the bells and whistles. You'd think that after 20 years, they would've come up with a magic formula so that you don't have to wash the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. We've sent men to the moon! We've built towering skyscrapers and underwater tunnels! But not a dishwasher that can wash your dishes without a prewash....
Technology is really disappointing, sometimes.