Dishwasher Woes

Brandon was gone a few days this week on a business trip. When we woke up Saturday morning I informed him that the dishwasher was making a really bad sound. Elizabeth followed this up by her best impersonation of the really loud dishwasher. Brandon's next question was "have you checked to see if there is anything stuck in it?" Well, no I had not.  Sure enough I walk over and it does appear as if there is something stuck in the bottom of the dishwasher.   It is a corn cob holder.  I go upstairs and retrieve a pair of tweezers to remove the corncob holder which happens to be in the shape of a corn cob.  In the meantime Brandon has decided to go ahead and turn the dishwasher on to hear this noise. Of course it doesn't make the noise but now the bottom of the dishwasher has water in it, making the corncob holder very slippery.  He attempts to use the tweezers to remove the corncob holder and promptly drops the tweezers into the bottom of the dishwasher. I know you are all wishing I would've taken pictures of this right now. We have a magnetic stick gadget that my dad gave us for Christmas a few years ago but it is too big to fit into the drain holes.   Luckily he also gave us a wire puller grabber thingy that fit inside the drain holes. (two very odd gifts, but they have saved us on more than one occasion!) After several attempts we finally managed to pull not only the tweezers and that corn cob holder, but also two toothpicks.  And after all of this, yes the dishwasher is still very loud :(