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.

I have thought of more:
Over dramatic coughing

When I get home from work and he has been at home and hoovered / cleaned etc I have to notice everything and comment

Puts used cycling stuff on the washing line / over the bedroom door etc 'to air'
when he has enough clothes to wear once and then wash!
I am v ungrateful

@MumofSpud
is he the long lost brother of my DH?
he has dramatic sneezes. roughly 90% of the sounds he makes are totally unnecessary.

We have two dogs and use stainless steel food bowls. DH without fail always puts them the wrong way in the dishwasher, so not in the bowl rack bits but leaning on them.

This takes up more space and is in no way quicker or easier (which DH will always choose by default) so it's a bizarre thing to do.

[quote ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]@MumofSpud
is he the long lost brother of my DH?
he has dramatic sneezes. roughly 90% of the sounds he makes are totally unnecessary.[/quote]
All the noises they make!!

Can I have another - he comments on my driving ALL the time - whereas his perfect and despite me having a clean driving licence for 32 years and no crashes (and he has had 3!)

him: "let's watch one episode of xyz"
me: "no. you'll just fall asleep after 10 mins and I hate not watching an episode to the end"
him: "no no no. I'll be fine. I'm not that tired"
so we start.
guess what happens next

He’s a bit flappy/and has an attention span of a goldfish watching him do simple things (like make a coffee) is so frustrating! He’ll boil a kettle and forget about it or put toast in and forget about it and it will go cold or burn to shit.

This. He's spent a fortune on cables that I don't mind, but let's it get like spaghetti

Doesn't help I've just tried to do something and was met by all this entanglement

Places his dirty socks and boxers on top of the laundry bin instead of inside it.
He says my most irritating thing is snoring (but obviously I don't)
Zingdrama your one sounds quite familiar to me too.

Oh, Lord, @Oldraver !
I think I'd just have to run away if I peeped back there and saw that jumbled mess!

@Sweetpea1532

Oh, Lord, *@Oldraver* ! I think I'd just have to run away if I peeped back there and saw that jumbled mess!

I know...there are four power cords, two interconnects, two lots of bi-wire speaker cable all tangled up with co-axial

And I only wanted to add a light

Does everything really fucking slowly. It takes him 5minutes to do what I can in 1. It's so frustrating to watch him snailing around.

Better to be cursing the darkness@Oldraver than lighting up that jumbled mess

The light is arriving later, it will be an in jumbled mess and the bloody £100 quid ( I know it could of been much more) recent cable will be freed

Saves farts up all day then releases them loudly during the night. Wakes me up every bloody night.
How does he do it.

He'll rattle off about 4/5 really long loud ones in a row.

DH just can't fathom the dishwasher. He can't grasp the concept of water needing to get around things, and he rams things in on top of each other. And has to stop it at least 5 times to ram a bit more in when it's half way through the cycle. Often this means it just stops half way, then he bastarding well unloads it........ meaning you have to check every glass, mug or plate before you use it. His party trick is to unload it last thing at night with only the extractor light on and his lenses out. So it's either dirty or half washed.

Just about everything on here..but mostly it's the relentless pointless questions..often things I don't know the answer to and things I can figure out why he would want to know the answer to.
Once I mentioned friend in relation to a subject I was talking about he interrupted me to ask where here grandfather had lived, when had he died and what had caused his death. Just why? Why do you want to know? It drives me crazy. I've just said I'm only answering questions anymore that you actually need the information for a reason. Also if we are both watching a documentary or a news story he asks me questions about the situation as if I have inside information! Just watch the story and we'll both find out....

Oh yes mine are he'd complain that I always have 'plans' ie DIY, days out and things going on. He likes to have no plans at all and just potter around all day.

He is currently making a sandwich. By the sound you would think he is demolishing the kitchen. Fuck knows what he is doing. He can’t cook, which is lucky as the neighbours would probably complain about the noise.

He isn’t allowed to cook as he always does something wacky (disgusting) to the food. ‘I thought it tasted a bit sour so I put sweetener in it’. Or he tries to cook like his mum taught him, boiled to certain death.

He tells me stories about events where I was there. Half of what he says is completely made up as well.

Eats shit and drinks no water then moans about feeling ill or having a bad stomach.

He tells me stories about events where I was there. Half of what he says is completely made up as well

Oh God yes. The stories have evolved over the years as he misremembers what was said or who was there. If he's drinking then it may as well be Enid Blyton sitting there telling the story! He turns a recounted situation slightly to “get a laugh”

My friends just go

Is obsessed with me and the children not getting in people’s way. He will manhandle us and shout at the children to move. My take is that we live in a busy city, and we have to learn to share space; if someone gets in my way I say “excuse me”, or walk around them. But according to DH this is too much to ask of other people, so DCs and I should be flinging ourselves into the gutter of pressing against a wall to take up as little public space as possible.

@OuiOuiKitty

Does everything really fucking slowly. It takes him 5minutes to do what I can in 1. It's so frustrating to watch him snailing around.

Ah yes this is my husband too! Also if he starts talking he has to completely stop what he's doing til he's finished talking. Like, most people can chat whilst cooking dinner but not him!

@Mrsfrumble

'Is obsessed with me and the children not getting in people’s way. He will manhandle us and shout at the children to move. My take is that we live in a busy city, and we have to learn to share space; if someone gets in my way I say “excuse me”, or walk around them. But according to DH this is too much to ask of other people, so DCs and I should be flinging ourselves into the gutter of pressing against a wall to take up as little public space as possible.'

Dh does this too and people pleases even when they are not necessarily in the right. Just the other day i was putting one of our dc (literally takes a minute max) into the car and the driver of the car next to us wanted to pull out with no regats for ys and trying to force way out and not wait. Dh told me to fold door in more (this wouldnt have been possible unless i left dc half strapped in and stood aside so i told him no i would be seconds! Id started so I'd finish.) The even more annoying part was we had waited patiently for ages for the same people to get out of their car before we could get out with no thank you or anything when we first got there.

regard for us*