I first learned about Dishwasher Pete in Chuck Woodbury’s amazing Out West Newspaper, that he published out of Edmonds, WA. I can no longer find it online. There are some used copies of a book based on it at Amazon:<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688085881" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688085881</a><p>Pete was a guy who liked washing dishes. Restaurants tried to promote him, to make him a manager, and whenever they did this he would quit. He liked washing dishes. He did not like doing other things.<p>After Out West Newspaper, David Letterman invited him to his show. Instead of going he sent a friend who pretended to be him.<p>I feel Dishwasher Pete. He captures a universal sentiment of what it is to be human. We are all Dishwasher Petes.