The most irritating thing my partner does is ...

[FatCatThinCat]

Just for fun, what is the most irritating thing your partner does? Just one thing, which isn't easy if they're like mine as I could fill the thread by myself. Thankfully the none irritating things are even more plentiful. And for balance, what would they say about you?

My DP still drives like he's just passed his driving test. He believes that test level driving is the pinacle of good driving rather than the minimum standard. And it drives me up the bloody wall so much that I'll only go in the car with him driving if I need to sleep so I can't see what he's doing. Other drivers think he's a learners without L plates on.

If you asked him he'd say my most irritating behaviour is opening windows when the heating's on. He thinks I'm happy for him to pay to heat the whole of northern Europe.

My DH is a drummer. And his legs are constantly moving with a beat plus one hand so much so that I can't sit on the same sofa as him, because the constant leg movement jiggles me about and vibrates through the sofa.
He does it in bed too before he nods off.

Loads the dishwasher, then doesn't switch it on

Having song lyrics or quotes for virtually any word in the English language, which he then MUST say out loud. Often stops us actually having normal conversations. I think it is OCD-related actually... doesn't make it any less annoying.

About me... Oh, so so many things. Constantly losing things like glasses/kindle/tablets/phone.

Stuffs biscuit wrappers into his empty mug after a cup of tea.... only it's not empty as he leaves half an inch or so in the bottom so said wrappers go all soggy and stick to the bottom of the mug ready for me to have to hoke out into the bin - minger

Leaves kitchen cupboards open. Every time he gets something out. It's infuriating to me.

Only seems to watch films made pre 1957.

Mine has a habit of wandering down to the kitchen naked late at night. We have houses behind us and big glass doors. Sometimes I catch him in time to shout "dressing gown" but I really shouldn't have to tell him.

Mine is my tendency to find a new hobby to be obsessed with for a few months, then I drop it for a new obsession/ hobby.

Leaves cupboard doors and drawers open all the time.

We have Venetian blinds for both light and some privacy and he pulls the bloody things right up, adding no more light but removing all the privacy.

No matter how big a bed we sleep in he's always right up in my space.

When he's set his sights on cooking a new recipe he'll go buy every item listed, regardless of what we already have in the house. The concept of leaving something out or adding something in is alien to him.

He signs up for every notification from every possible app and therefore dings and pings constantly (in contrast to my phone which has been on silent since 2008).

That all said, he's pretty super and I'm very lucky to have him.

...sneeze too dramatically.

Sits on his foot all day then complains about sore foot/back

Leaves light on in every room he goes him

Chews gum with mouth open (swears he doesn't)

Puts salt on his food regardless of what it is and before tasting it

Puts ketchup on steak

@FatCatThinCat
What do you mean by “driving like he’s just passed his driving test”? Genuine question.

Asks questions but doesn't listen to answers. If we have an appointment or something coming up I'll tell him the date, time and location. I'll even write all the details on the wall calendar. But it doesn't stop him asking the same questions again and again, even though the information is clearly written inches from his head.

Makes awful noises when he eats - groaning, chomping, teeth grinding - I finally got so fed up with it a few days ago, I told him to stop, and he stomped off into another room to eat, and has done so over the last few days. I don't know whether to feel relieved or guilty!

Starts a conversation with me where he’s clearly been discussing it in his own brain. So I’m coming to it blind but he swears he’s been talking to me

Similarly, he thinks I do the same - but I genuinely don’t! For example, we might be talking about a film, and discussing how we thought the main character was poorly cast. I might then say something like ‘but he was good in XX’ and for the life of him he can’t figure out what I’m talking about?! Like I’ve just dropped something completely unexpectedly into the conversation.

He swears blind he does neither of these things but he really does!

@MagicSummer

Makes awful noises when he eats - groaning, chomping, teeth grinding - I finally got so fed up with it a few days ago, I told him to stop, and he stomped off into another room to eat, and has done so over the last few days. I don't know whether to feel relieved or guilty!

I’m not even joking when I say that when DH and I first got together he had terrible table manners. It was a deal breaker for me, I literally told him I couldn’t be with someone who chews with his mouth open.

I can’t be in the same room as his dad and food or drink, it proper grosses me out.

@JackieTheFart
Starts a conversation with me where he’s clearly been discussing it in his own brain. So I’m coming to it blind but he swears he’s been talking to me grin

I do this to my OH, and to other people too...

Right now my OH's most annoying habit is singing out of tune

Makes everything Woe Is Me..

Stfu you bloody moany git....

[quote greenlynx]@FatCatThinCat
What do you mean by “driving like he’s just passed his driving test”? Genuine question.[/quote]
Like pulling out from a junction. He'll wait for a space, check his mirrors, gears into first, handbrake off ... and the space has gone. So handbrake back on, gears back into neutral, wait for another space. And repeat. I learnt to drive 15 years after him and I tell him that I was taught to be ready to go. Gears in first, foot over the gas, hand on the handbrake, wait for a space, handbrake down and go. I've sat at the end of our road with him, waiting to join the main road so many times while space after space pass by. He'll eventually do it my way when the traffic builds up behind him and they start honking their horns. It's mortifying.

Leaves the kitchen cupboards and drawers open constantly or takes stuff out of them, uses it and then doesn't put it back.

If he's on dishes, leaving the dirty dish water sitting after he's finished instead of just draining it and wiping round.

If he's last upstairs at night leaving all the curtains and blinds open, we live on a busy street and I don't enjoy being gawped at by passers by when I come downstairs the next morning in my pjs.

Expecting a round of applause and a medal when he does something without being asked 🙄

I could literally fill this thread hahah

Doesn't throw the empty toilet roll cardboard away even though the bin is right next to do the toilet.

Doesn't wash the bath out after him and I'm sick of pubes everywhere in the bath.

Making funny clicking noises with his teeth that irritate the crap out of me. He also sits picking his feet, eugh, oh and sneezes too loudly!

@toolazytothinkofausername Yes mine too. Every day I go to empty it but nope. It's not been on. Infuriating. And snoring
And quoting song lyrics
And expecting instant answers from me yet when I ask something he makes me wait
And breathing...
Me? Nothing. I'm absolutely fine as I am

Leaves 'stuff' on every surface, old batteries on the mantle piece, empty envelopes on the stairs, bits of car, motorbike etc in the house.
He'd probably say I always attempt to organise and abandon the job half way through!

Does a load of washing but never dries it. Leaves empty toilet rolls in the bathroom.

He's got some good points too.

Oh bloody hell, the driving thing would drive me mad!

I don’t even put the hand break on at a junction, foot on the break ready to go.