European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 scene stars and stripes june 2007 the soapy adventures 0 c d a o cd d u 0 d t d o Cal o i free spirit chronicles attempt to bust suds in 50 states for 12 Pete Jordan dishwasher Pete scoured the country with one Humble goal to Wash dishes in All 50 Jordan chronicled his Kerouac esque adventures in a popular Zine called dishwasher and episodes of this Amer ican life while he crisscrossed the country busting suds on an Oil a Casino and a theater in now Jordan soft Slouch postured and grading at the temples writes about his Odyssey in a Book dishwasher Harper Tempo caught up with Jordan at the National restaurant associations convention in Chicago Over the weekend to talk about eating restaurant the zen of Dis washing and his practical joke on David q eating customer leftovers seemed like a perk of Dis Wash and you called it bus tub was there an etiquette to what you would and would not eat a for it was so Normal i didst think about it the one Rule i had was if someone stuck their cigarette butt in one part of a plate of then i  eat anything because they showed such disrespect for the dish i wish i did have rules Munfor on too Many i did eat whatever was in front of i did get my Eye was always out for the q you let a Friend pose As you and be interviewed by David while you watched from the Green How do i know that youre really Pete Jordan a i can show you if you laughs As far As it want any big my Friend wanted to go on and i so i All go it want a big before last my editor and publisher had never met me in because Ive been in Amster dam for the last five years where Jor Chicago Pete dishwasher Jordan ponders an inscription As he signs books May 20 at the National restaurant association Conven Tion at Mccormick place in Jordan wrote a Memoir of his attempt to Wash dishes in 50 Dan works As a bicycle so until last i enjoyed relative when my publicist in finally going to meet you i maybe it wont be q for the restaurants exhibit ing would you have been a Model employee a pause i was a very typical dishwasher in Many i fell in line with Many dishwashers who did walk off the Job without a moments notice and who walked in the door 10 minutes after another dishwasher had i dont know How Many times people would can you Start right now i enjoyed it be cause it was a Job with Little Ono re As a younger i was not Good with responsibility and could not be trusted to be on time or to be which ruled me out of being an airline for and Many other it worked Well for i liked being anon for a Long i liked being the Guy in the q throughout your you mention famous among them Malcolm George Bruce Larry Little Gerald Ford and Ronald what do you All have in common a i think its Humble i do respect that Ford and Reagan washed i just wish that they would have remembered that More later in their especially when Reagan was saying the minimum wage was the worst thing to happen to the working person since the great i completely he was running for and he want looking for the minimum wage but i wish he would have remembered what it was washing dishes for minimum wage in q you managed to Wash dishes in 33 of the 50 but never Why at i love its one of those places that i spent so much time wander ing its sort of a vacation place for i didst want to work my grand plan was to Wash dishes in because that where Josephine Cochrane invented the modern electric she was this socialite in the 1880s who was sick of the help breaking her precious so she developed this machine that would put the dishes in boiling hot she introduced it at the 1893 columbian exposition and won awards and was a big Large Chicago hotels and restaurants bought it up right so i wanted to work in As an homage to but i didst get to do q do you have any Dis Wash ing advice for nonprofessional a take your time give your self time to enjoy turn on the its a Nice Way to wind Down after a Nice a Long Ive never used a commercial Home another piece of advice dont let my wife near As wonderful a person As she she is the worst its been but weve come to an agreement that she will never Wash the dishes again in our she caught me one after i thought she had gone to rehashing the dishes that she its a skill she must to make the dishes dirtier than they she in never washing the dishes again i didst