DH - Petty annoyances

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I'm not a journalist - lazy or otherwise so piss off Daily Mail.

Following on from another thread re petty things that get you riled up . . . Every time I make a cheese sauce I have to grate a third more than required in anticipation that DH will do many a 'drive by' and swipe loads.

Hardly a major issue - even though strong cheddar we buy has security tags!

People are laughing at pp but it is the advice of the fire service to unplug appliances and switch them off at the wall. My brother’s a firefighter.

Never shuts a drawer or cupboard door. Also doesn’t empty the sink bits collector. Never hangs up the fucking bath mat. Constantly turns the bathroom extractor fan off at the isolator switch in the middle of the night so when you go for a shower in the morning you turn the light/fan on outside, go in the bathroom, shut the door then think, wait where’s the noise? And have to go out and flick the switch on.

If we are having any food with a bowl of splodge, eg Mexican with guacamole, he will pick up the bowl and say “What’s this? Guacamole?” then push it back and forth a couple of times with the back of the spoon, as if to investigate. Especially irritating with mezze if I’ve gone to effort with the hummus to do the fancy swirl of olive oil as he fucks it up with his spoon business. But frankly it’s always irritating! The thing I have made does not need extra back-of-spoon stirring! It’s patently obvious it’s salad/beans/salsa/whatever!

He does use a toaster correctly though.

The knock off nutribullet thing that (j)whizzes juice up! 😂

Mine has an infuriating habit of dragging out what he's saying in a sort of "answer me these questions three" Arthurian wizard way. For example, he can't just say "if I'm going to mow the lawn tomorrow it will have to wait until after the World Cup final - it finishes at 1". He has to say "I can't mow the lawn until after 1" and then stand there with an expectant expression until someone says "why?" at which point he triumphantly announces "World Cup final!" as if we're all idiots for forgetting. I love him to bits but fuck me, it's irritating.

He makes a squeaky pop noise when he livks his fingers.
Will leave a tiny amount of anything in a packet so he can't be blamed for 'eating it all: (blame the parents)
Says 'Do you get what I'm saying' or ' Do you understand me?' I blame his workplace for the last one.
Sucks his fingers and when he stops he makes the squeaky pop noise.

Do you switch off and unplug every electrical appliance?

Microwave will use a tiny amount (around 0.25w, so a unit every 4000 hours…!) but the toaster and kettle are completely isolated when not in use - there’s zero benefit to unplugging or switching them off.

OKAY THAT'S WHAT I WAS HOPING 😆

He seems unable to use adjectives to describe things. E.g. re new kitchen

me - what’s your new sink like?
him -well, it’s on an island
me - is it square, round, rectangular, deep, shallow, steel, butler, composite, integrated with drainer or set in, single, double, one and a half?

I turn off and unplug kettles, microwave and toaster after a story from the 90s about a kettle burning a house down. Oven off at the wall in case the cats turn the gas on 🙄 Weirdly I trust the fridge with my life and trust the lamps, alexa and the TV to stay plugged into the wall but switched off overnight.

Constantly asks me what time is it…. I’m not the talking clock!

What a horrid thread

My Dh is an electrical engineer and we unplug everything except the fridge, freezer and tv. Nothing is plugged in unless it's in use.

Oh so so many things
Recent one was getting a
Mussel from a shell then putting it into his palm then throwing it in his mouth instead of just eating off the shell he used like pincers to extract it.
Spilling yoghurt in his beard.
I drive him equally crazy so I think we are even.

Yes I am ! It’s been drilled into us.

Thank you 🙏🏻

All those people switching off the toaster before bed, do you switch the fridge and freezer off too by the same logic?

I never used to unplug or switch off anything until the day one of my cats peed onto the plug setting fire to it and ruining the microwave. Thank God I was at home. It blew the fuse box as well.

How does turning the oven off at the wall stop the cats from turning the gas on??

Every single morning without fail my husband will get himself a glass of orange juice, stand at the sink and gulp it down in one. Then he leaves the glass at the side of the sink, right beside the dishwasher. If I ask him to put it away he will, makes a big fuss that he forgets etc but the next day it's the same. Recently spent 10 days away on holiday and his little habit seemed to follow him there. Annoys me so so much.

Never pulls the shower curtain across after a shower, so that it can dry properly.

My biggest peeve is that he'll close a drawer to within about half a centimetre. Surely it's harder to do that than completely close the bloody thing! 😡

Why would he do that?

H nailclippings on the side of the bath. He's done it before and I cleared them away in disgust. I'm leaving these here even though my skin is crawling that they are still there a day and a half later. You've all got my back if I murder him haven't you?

@LorelaiEmilyRory so every plug socket you have is accessible? I can't get to my tv one because it is behind the tv cabinet, I can't get to my bedside lamps as again the sockets are behind the bedside table which is full of stuff so I can't pull that out. Same for the lounge lamps, they are behind tables or a sofa. They are on a timer but I can't unplug.

For the built in microwave I would need to empty half the cupboard out above it to get to it, the dishwasher goes on overnight so I can't unplug that and I can't get to the washing machine or tumble dryer plugs either, not easily anyway.

Unplugging everything is something my Dad does and he is in his 80s because electricity and wiring when he was a child was war time era and not modern protected RCD consumer unit style with regs covering safety.

The worst thing Dh does is move things around in the fridge, so he will get something out then put it back in a different place. I expect condiment jars to be all together on the condiment's shelf, but no, if he has to move a couple of jars out to get to what he needs those jars stay wherever he put them in the fridge. Frustrating but not a deal breaker.

@Uplakeyhill my eyes 😱can’t unseen that. I will help you with that new patio.