Habit, inexperience or ‘switched off’

My partner had some Doris moments when attempting to play house-husband yesterday. While I appreciate the gesture, I have to wonder what led to his actions:

• He folded a basket full of clothes that were waiting to be washed, believing them to be clean. Perhaps that was my fault for queuing them up to be washed by putting them in the basket that was normally filled with clothes that have just come out of the washing machine.
  
• He packed all the dirty dinner dishes into the dishwasher with all the clean dishes. Ahhh, the expectation that clean dishes always find their way out of the dishwasher and into the cupboard, therefore meaning there are only ever dirty dishes in the dishwasher.

Not getting at him, honest, just smiling at the situation!