Dinner duty assignments

Dinner is a wonderful time at Pentwater. Everyone has returned to the house after a fun-filled day at the beach. The kitchen crew is hard at work finishing dinner and most of the kids relaxing on the porch with a good trash mag. Because the dinning room table has limited seating room, the "kids" and "adults" eat separately. The terms kids and adults have become misnomers, as most of the "kids" are now of adult age with many being married with kids of their own. However, once you are a kid, you are forever relegated to the kids table.

The adults are responsible for making a daily trip to town to purchase ingredients for the night's meal. Being on dinner duty also means you are responsible for kitchen cleanup throughout the day (especially after lunch).

Starting with the 1993 newsletter, it was suggested that the kids help with dinner duty. Since then, the kids have been assigned to one or more nights of dinner duty a week. Even though the kids have grown up, they are still given the menial tasks like setting the table, putting ice in the cups, making lemonade, chopping vegetables, and washing dishes.

As with most Pentwater topics, there is a controversy surrounding dinner duty assignments. This is officially a banned topic, and has been moved to a separate page: dinner duty disparity.