What stupid little inconsequential things do people you live with do that enrage you?!

[Fraca]

I live with adult Ds. By the kettle, I have a spoon rest with, unsurprisingly perhaps, a spoon on it. I leave the spoon there all day because I use it to stir my tea. In the evening it goes in the dishwasher. Adult ds knows this.

And yet, Every Time I go to stir my tea, my spoon has gone! Every. Time. I mean, tbf, I've probably only mentioned it a million times so I expect I should say it a bit more often. This morning, the absent spoon has catapulted me into a seething raging murderous mood.

Like I said, it's the little things ...

But they're not disposable...he just expects too much from them....

People, ie everyone else in the household, doing the washing up oh-so-dutifully when it's their turn, but never wiping so much as a crumb from a surface or a drop of moisture off the draining board. I'm not fanatical about these things, but it looks so much cleaner even after the most cursory wipe down. Why won't they bloody do it?

Rearranged the dishwasher after I’ve stacked it in a perfectly acceptable fashion.

i now stack it in the most ridiculous way possible 😁

Dh- dumps paperwork around communal areas and it will sit for months if I don't deal with it. If I mention it to to him he will tell me he thought I put it there.
Kids-toothpaste spit all over the sink. And sometimes mirror and floor.

Eats toddler size meals!
If you put more than a toddler size portion on his plate, he just leaves the ' excess '.
Drives me mad.

My husband has never met a drawer or a cupboard door that he is capable of closing.

This a mystery to me because HE NEVER PUTS THINGS IN THE BLOODY CUPBOARD.

The parrot wins the thread

@Delugeafterdeluge
Every single morning! Been together 34 years, haven't drunk coffee on a morning for the last 30, but still asks "in case I've changed my mind"!

Sits and reads me the entire tv guide! For context, he goes upstairs to watch TV at 7pm. This is how the conversation goes:
Him - I don't know what you're going to watch tonight?
Me: I'll find something
Him: Well, on BBC 1 you've got the One Show, BBC 2 you've got....
Rinse and repeat. The whole thing!
At first I said, it's ok, you don't need to read the whole guide, I'll look on the actual TV one... There will be 3 seconds silence at most, then... Continues where he left off!!!
Drives me absolutely insane! He's knocked it off slightly now, as I'll either say I know what I'm watching, whether I do or not, or I'll remind him I have a tv guide app on my phone! Crackers! My best mate thinks it's hysterical, whereas I do not!!!

Singing! But not normal singing. He will be drying the pots/making a brew/making a sandwich/getting in, during and out of the shower and we have to have this insane fluctuating warble, with no real words! It's almost like it's beyond him to just be silent! It's nothing to do with being cheerful, he just does it! The same as when he starts to tell me something, forgets the next bit and starts saying de dum, de dum, de dum as a place filler until he remembers the next bit ... Please, just don't say anything!!!!

And 5/7 toast crumbs on the bread board!

I could go on, not much enrages me, but those do!!! 😬😬😬

This made me lol! 😂😂😂

I don't have to put up with this any more because thankfully the culprit is my ex,but his habit of getting in bed with his socks on,then deciding that he didn't want them on,tugging them off and chucking them into the corner of the bedroom used to enrage me. They'd always disappear behind the large wicker chair in the corner, meaning I had to practically stand on my head to retrieve them the next day. 😡

Just remembered another one the same ex used to do. He never ever put the lids back on things properly. Bottles,Marmite,jam,you name it,he'd just give the lid a couple of turns and that was it. I lost count of the times I picked up a bottle by the top and it promptly fell out of my hand because the lid wasn't on properly.

@ShinyBandana that draw gave me the heebie jeebies.

Cupboard doors open, DH is a bit better than he used to be but there have been times it looks like the scene out of The Sixth Sense when the ghost has opened every door and drawer in the kitchen.

My partner washes up in low light with lukewarm water and the barest squeeze of washing up liquid to save the environment. I often have to do it again later. He gets cross if I ask him to put on the light/use hot water/use more detergent.

Hanging the coat over the front room door and trainers in the hallway- there is a cupboard literally by the door where they go!!

This is so petty but I go away to visit family on a regular basis. I get so sick of explaining to my dh that it’s much easier to wash tea towels, table cloths, sheets, and bath and hand towels, and bath mats and cleaning cloths and get them properly clean again if he changes them very regularly. Instead he uses the same one for a fortnight and they are then only good for the bin or need endless pre-treating and scrubbing and re-washing and it’s just so tedious. I’ve been telling him for 29 years! 🤬

Hang tea towels in the wrong place

And leave shoes inside rather than the porch

And worse a coat over the bannister

OH often decides to tell me something really random he’s just seen on his phone just as I’m leaving the room and it’s usually something I’m really not interested in.

Doesn't check that the loo has flushed properly before leaving the bathroom

We have a basket in the middle of our sofa for our remote controls to live in, he always has the main tv one by his side meaning I have to stretch for it or get up, just put it back in the bloody basket so we can both easily get it

Clicks in his sleep.
Stands in front of whichever drawer or cupboard I need to use.
Doesn't squeeze the washing up sponge properly so it's sopping wet and dribbling water all around the side of the sink.
Puts the blanket over him upside down or back to front and doesn't put the cushions zip-down like they should be.

Urgh this!

Not even a couple of turns, just jams it on the top.

And we're a marmite and Nutella family so have huge jars and they smash down.

OH does it with everything with a lid. Fabric conditioner, bleach, shower gel..

So infuriating and lazy!

Wtaf???

Leave the microwave door open, leave the cereal boxes open, leave jar lids half screwed on. I'm constantly shutting the door, closing the cereal boxes so they don't go stale and tightening marmite lids.

Reading this thread has made me now understand the book ‘men are from Mars and women are from Venus ‘ …maybe my husband who has pissed me off for thirty years is normal after all!

Frequently puts things away, not sensibly in a cupboard where I can reach them, no, but on top of the kitchen units, or sometimes the fridge freezer. He can put as much of his own shit up there as he wants, but I'm a little shortarse, and whichever way I attempt to retrieve these items, other things sitting up there are going to cascade onto me or the floor or the worktop when I do so, because I'm about 14 inches shorter than you, you twat, and I cannot fucking levitate.

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Sweeps breadcrumbs from his midnight snack off the worktop and on to the floor; goes to bed in t-shirt and flings it behind bedroom door in the night where they hide until I vacuum; fills the kettle for one cup of coffee because it saves having to put more water in later (2 steps between kettle and sink); leaves dirty socks in a ball in the corner of whichever room he's in when they come off - I once left them all lying around until he ran out of socks, he bought new ones; leaves jars/bottles out on worktop as he can't see the point of putting them away each time. When I mention any of the above he gives me a hurt expression and mutters what sounds like 'petty' under his breath.

DH hanging coats on kitchen chairs rather than on of the 4 coat hanging options down stairs. Me - yawning loudly at night but not going to bed (allegedly)