Dear Amy: My partner and I are currently house and dog sitting for my parents. We asked our friend to watch our own house while we are gone. We just moved into this house recently. We managed to clean the house up and make it presentable, except for the kitchen. We ran out of time and left clean dishes in the dishwasher and some dirty dishes in the sink. Our trash can was also full (trash day was the day after we left), so there were two bags of non-food trash by the back door. Obviously, we’ve come to realize that we are the jerks in this situation.