What do YOU do that would drive you mad

[Pickles89]

if anyone else did it?

I never set the microwave for 2 minutes, or whatever the packaging says - I just get it going for any old random amount of time with the result that I either need to keep putting it in again, or end up with it boiled over/scalding hot and have to wait half an hour for it to be safe to consume! If anyone else in my family did that I'd think they were a total lemon, but it's me, so I let myself continue doing it.

What about you?

I have anxiety and when it flares I check things over and over with people ("will it be OK? What about xyz? I think it will be fine because xyz. Will it be ok?" And so on). It must be exhausting for the other person.

I also wiggle my foot constantly.

I doodle when I'm listening so it looks like I'm not paying attention.

I "yawn" a lot though its actually just me taking a breath properly if my chest is tight (asthma)

I'm clumsy and drop things a lot.

I'm annoying

Eat standing in the kitchen
Tell DC off about too much screen time while watching people ride horses on tictok (which I won't let them have)

My friend always says...'its like the bloody sixth sense in your house' ...we're the same

I’m chaotic and very messy. My flat is filthy and often so am I. I shed hair all over the place.

My thinking can be very negative and obsessive, which can be very draining for anyone around me. (Fortunately I’m usually alone.)

I takes me fucking years to do anything, and when I do, I will cry about it. I’m a joy to behold.

I am obsessed with the weather forecast. I start checking it about Wednesday for the weekend and try to make plans based on where it's going to be nice. I continue to check it throughout the day, including during the night if I wake up for the loo. I drive myself mad.

I have lots of unopened emails on my phone. Apparently that’s annoying!

I'm obsessed by the weather too. I watch country file on Sunday nights as they do a long range forecast and if anything is mentioned above 20 degrees or so I go into a sulk , then dread the rest of the week! I'm getting like my dad as he was also obsessed by weather and predicted snow every winter even if it didn't!

Fidgeting. When my kids do it it drives me mental. Sometimes I will confiscate an item they have been fiddling with, only to fiddle with it myself until I put it elsewhere.

Not hearing people call my name because I'm day dreaming.

Sitting down to dinner then not fancying it, not eating it, and having something else instead. I only do this when they are not watching. Too many times I have thrown away a half eaten ready meal that I didn't fancy by the time the microwave had pinged and eat cheese and crackers or cake instead.

Taking FOREVER in the bath.

I'm a serious procrastinator!
I know I have work to do but here I am on MN...

Me too elp30

Also, rarely go to bed at a sensible time, then moan about the bags unde my eyes

I can never trust myself when it comes to checking candles are blown out. I always end up texting my fiancé if he is still downstairs asking him to double-check!

I am obsessed with giving things away / decluttering. Always in the process of 'gathering up a few bits to put in a bag for the charity shop'.

Loads more.

@ScottlansEyebrows
You sound like me hahaa x

I spend far too much time on here, checking my emails, checking Facebook including when other people- mostly the kids - are trying to talk to me. Its very rude of me.

@RandomTree

I have a tendency to interrupt people. I'm trying to stop

Me too! A horrible habit that I can't seem to shake off much to my husbands annoyance.

Literally everything everyone has already mentioned. God knows how DH puts up with me. Mind you he’s quite annoying in other ways so it ends up fair.

Fart, fart, fart, all the live long day.

Chunter.
Repeat jokes.
Complain about food noises.
Constantly lose car keys and glasses.
Spend too long on my phone.

Lose my phone
Drop my phone
Overthink and catastrophise
Back seat drive (this is a problem at the moment, as I’ve got a broken leg. I’m a fucking nightmare)
Mouth off, then regret it

I sing in shops I don't even know I'm doing it but if they're playing music I sing along. Not loudly, I'm not Brian Blessed or anything, just my tone deaf murmuring

I have all the best intentions to go for a walk at lunchtime, lift some weights after work etc but I just cannot be arsed and spend way too much time sat on the sofa doing fuck all

Oh OP my exH used to do what you did but with the oven! Just bunged things in and guessed when it would be finished. The amount of times we had blackened food coming out! It was actually one of his (few) endearing qualities

Take my shoes off and leave them.in weird places. Drives me mad. Must drive dh to distraction as he is much tidier than me.

Oh and I also can’t ever seem to find the motivation to do anything productive at work ever though I literally get paid more if I make more money.

In normal life I never stop, constantly cleaning the house, organising our lives and any other tiny little job I can think of but when it comes to the job I actually get paid to do or exercise I am such a lazy cow

Doing things fast and lazily - which inevitably results in additional mess or damage that could so easily have been saved if I had just taken two minutes to put an old sheet on the floor (rather than spending hours after the event rubbing paint from the carpet), or moved the vase before hammering the nail in the wall and know king the vase off with my elbow, or emptying the recycling rubbish into the dustbin carefully, rather than spending ten minutes picking fragments of paper off the drive ...

I talk to myself all the goddamn time too.

I'm unintentionally messy. I have a pile off stuff next to my spot on the sofa that I promise DH that I'll deal with every week. My dad has a similar one that pisses my mum off, my Nan had one too. I can't help it, it's clearly inherited.

Rest of the house is spotless!