WHY DOES MIKE HATE THE SPOON REST?

You know, Mike is pretty good about some things. He has about 40 cups of coffee a day and, since he doesn't like doing dishes, he is really good about not using hundreds of different mugs. As a matter of fact, sometimes I worry about what's growing in his current cup. And he uses the same spoon over and over, and then places it on the side of the sink, where it makes little round coffee marks, continuously, world without end, amen.

So I bought a nice little spoon rest and set it on the counter next to the teakettle. I know that Mike tends to the path of least resistance, and so placing the spoon rest as close as possible to the place where coffee is made seemed like the logical choice.

When the spoon rest arrived, Mike called it unnatural and not quite right. At my insistence, he made a show of using it for about a day and a half.

But only a day and a half.

Now he's back to placing the spoons on the side of the sink, about a foot to the right of the empty and neglected spoon rest.

Why does he hate the spoon rest?

Why oh why does he hate the spoon rest?