Inconsequential but HIGHLY irritating things your DH does

I just chuck them in the machine in whatever state they are, I leave it to him to un ball, pair up, whatever . No extra work for me !

Does the washing up but never washes the washing up bowl or the sink. E er washes mugs or glasses, just leaves them on the side.

Ooh I thought of another one. Never actually says the name of an item so I have to guess.
“Should I put the thing in the fridge”
the what?
the butter
ok so say butter.
Or from another room “is this supposed to be in the bag,”
what? I’m not in the room, what is “this!”

Brings a pint glass of water to bed every single night… but never drinks ANY of it. So have to carry the glass to the bathroom to empty it before carrying it back downstairs, or carry back down a really full glass… then brings another one back up! Dishwasher full of stupid pint glasses that are basically unused. He does the carrying etc not me but it drives me distracted even watching him do it

Him "John Smith died"
Me. Who's JS
Him. You know who it is. Bob Smiths son
Me. Never heard of him
Him. You know him, he worked at Blah
Blah. Big bloke with a beard.

This would go on until I eventually caved and said I remembered him.

Comments about what I'm doing, while I'm doing it. Example would be I'm in the kitchen making a sandwich, and in he walks....

"You making a sandwich then?"

No shit Sherlock!! 😂

Mine will also spend a good 15 minutes answering a question if he's interested in the topic, by which time DS or I have lost the will to live.

I'd leave them in a pile on the bed (unwashed) until he stops pairing them. Could you get him one of those bags that keep things separate in the laundry. He can put his socks in there and the bag can go in the laundry.

Oh god, this! And mine then continues a 10 minute monologue conversation based entirely on what he decided I said.
Him: "Have you seen the next door neighbours this morning?"
Me: "N.."
Him (interrupting): "Yes? Oh that's good, they must be back from London then. I'll go over and ask them if they still need the strimmer."
Me: "But I haven't..."
Him (interrupting again): "I'll go over there in a minute after I..." (blah blah blah...10 minutes of absolutely nothing of consequence)
Me: (sigh) Ok, fine

I'm considering getting a life-sized cardboard cut out of myself to leave in the kitchen for him to talk at so I can go round the house getting on with something else!

The father of my children (an ex) had a habit when he was dropping the children home after a weekend, of standing at the open front door (in the middle of winter) saying 'well I'll be going now then' and not going for about 20 minutes - by which time all the heat had gone out of the front door.

My adult daughter and her family came round for a meal last night and I mentioned to one of my grandsons that he was acting exactly as his grandfather used to do - in that he said he was going but made no move to do so. Everyone laughed - apparently my ex still does that.

😂yes, I have similar issues. I sometimes stop mid conversation and shake my head in bewilderment and say 'just why on earth would you think I meant that? Why nwould your brain not go to the most obvious thing, the context of which we were discussing only half an hour ago? On what planet would you now think I mean X when we were just discussing Y?'

I have to replay in my head exactly what I said, to make sure it's not me being really poor at communicating something, rather than him being really poor at understanding it.

oh god…. Loud sneezing (with at least 6 sneezes per ‘set’).

Leaving plastic tubs on the side to ‘air dry properly’ and never putting them back in the cupboard.

Always washing the food recycling bin / kitchen bin but never putting in a clean bag…

He does have many redeeming qualities however, just not those….

I'm the same. I get around this by just leaving balled up socks in the dirty washing basket. When he's down to his last clean pair, he's forced to go and unball them and wash them himself.

Yes, true but I like the washing done properly and it's me who does it (he does his fair share of other things, don't worry) and I simply can't bring myself to do it that way. Sometimes I pair them up again for him, sometimes he does it. But he has those socks which are all black but with different coloured toes and heels. Sometimes, when I am un-balling them I realise he's not paired them accurately and he's worn two different shades of green on the toe/heel paired erroneously together. Which means there is another oddly matched pair still lurking in his drawer. I KNOW logically that this doesn't matter. No-one sees that when his sock is in his boot. But the obsessive-compulsive perfectionist streak in me cannot stand it.😂

You need to wash them as they are and present them to him as they come out. And he can obviously pair his own socks so you don't need to match them for him, afterwards, even if they're still soggy and grubby in the middle of the ball. Natural consequences.

Oooh that annoys the shit out of me! How he offers to 'help' me with something when I'm 95% of the way through it/when it's 95% done. Do these men do this so he can kid himself that he has 'helped?'

I got all the washing off the line yesterday (took 3 trips in and out of the house, and there was about 40 different items, including 5 small hand towels,) and I got them all in and was folding everything up and putting it away (while he was pissing about on his computer.) And just as I was down to about 7 items including the 5 hand towels, he stood up and said 'want a hand?' and went to grab one of the hand towels. I said 'NO, you carry on with what you're doing, I've virtually done it now!' with a look!

He sat back down and said 'oooh, I was only offering to help.' I said 'that would have been appreciated more 10 minutes ago when I was coming in and out and in and out with almost 40 items that were hanging on the line, not when I'm down to folding the last 6 or 7 and have nearly put it all away! He's like

I mean FFS!

You leave them to air dry ? Flies and god only knows what other bacteria could land on them. So unhygenic

Whether I’ve already done it or not, he has to do a lot of checking of doors, windows, gas etc. which for some unfathomable reason he can’t possibly start at ten to 3.

MIne used to stand there when we were already running late as usual (me with shoes on, keys in hand, opening the door) and go: so, do we have the passports? Have we taken .... What about...

He stopped now as I said any jury would consider the homicide totally justified.

If we’ve planned to leave at say 3 pm for a journey that is often fraught with M25 hold ups, I can almost guarantee that it’ll actually be more like 3.15 before I can actually get him out of the house. Whether I’ve already done it or not, he has to do a lot of checking of doors, windows, gas etc. which for some unfathomable reason he can’t possibly start at ten to 3.

Just put them in still balled up.

I had a bf once who asked me why his shirts came out of the wash (which I did) with the sleeves rolled up. I said "because you put them in the wash with the sleeves rolled up and I'm not your mother".

He left the dirty water in the bowl after washing the big pans that don't go in the dishwasher...

...and hours later ceremoniously plopped a knife into the soup he'd left behind...

...even though the dishwasher is right there next to the sink.

Three crimes. One man.

Be grateful he is sweeping!....Is also like the fact it's in a pile so I can see how much :) :)

Yawns loudly.

Turns a one minute statement into a 10 minute story.

What does it matter if they've been used to mop up spills in floor of you're putting them through a hot wash anyway?

Doesn't your washing clean clean properly even on a hot wash? If not, why bother with the hot wash in the first place?

Change ours regularly so I think that's maybe sufficient.

So do you dry yourself with paper towels after a shower or drip dry?