What can your husband not do?

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Mine can not make a decent cup of tea. We have been together nearly 20 years and it’s just dawned on me! He’s a lovely man, works hard, good at DIY etc but his tea skills are not up to par. On balance I think I’ll keep him but it just made me wonder!!

Fry an egg
Cook stir fry
Recycle correctly - crisp packets!
Put an empty toilet roll in the bin
Hang the bath mat up on the airer or side of bath
Remember obvious things like what colour our bedroom is
Eat and apple quietly

I cannot:
Find things in obvious places
Not overfill the bin
Finish doing one task before starting at least one other
Do DIY without making a huge mess
Eat an apple quietly

1. Ride a bike
2. Drive
3. Wash up plastic sandwich boxes

He does make tea just how I like it though so he's not all bad 😊

Annoyingly he is good at everything, not a great speller but then he is mildly dyslexic so that gives him a pass.

I actually can't think of anything he isn't good at. And even if there was, he would only have to do it once and he'd be better at it than me.

So frustrating!

Oh I know! Sleep quietly.

Mine only seems to have one blind spot... How much rice to cook for 2 people. He seems to cook enough with the expecting that the British Army might stop by hoping for a curry.

Find things. He looks with his eyes not with his hands too. He scans a cupboard or a drawer visually rather than using his hands to move things about. Other than that he’s awesome.

Mine cannot scrape his leftovers into the bin - He plops his plate directly into the sink as if we have a waste disposal, then covers it up with my empty plate (as I scrape mine)

I then inevitably find it when I'm halfway through the washing up, it makes me gag whenever it's bread or over-soggied pasta 😂😂

Mine too! SO frustrating!!!

Stay up later than 7pm. Even on a weekend. He is asleep not long after dinner every night. I feel like we don't get much time together anymore at least not when he's awake.

LoL!! I have one of those too!! As an example, he has told me that he can't answer me because he is washing the dishes 😳😳

And he can't cook either - and like you, I think that's because he has to think about more than one thing at a time 😂😂

He does a great job of ironing though ( which I hate) so I'm keeping him!!

Oh God! This too! I've actually taught him how to share the stuff he wants with me, so it's easier for me to order it online, rather than him just flashing a picture at me and expecting me to find it on my phone! Gggrrrr!!! 🤣

Do his own life admin. He is very practical I other ways but that man call or work out how to post a parcel, order a prescription or book an appointment without my intervention.

Put stuff in the bin! He is unable to do it!!!

Get out of the house on time, he claims there isn’t enough clocks, when he could take his phone about or use the Apple Watch I bought him. Anything IT related. Gets massively panicky about doing any kind of presentations and is in a right state.

He can save peoples lives though so I can’t complain too much, and the letters after his name outnumber the ones in his full name, think he’s got the clever but not practical thing going on.

He can't rinse out tins for the recycling either! Or work the Firestick, despite repeated attempts to show him, patiently!
He can't not read me the entire TV Guide out, when I casually say I don't know what I'm going to watch, when he goes upstairs to watch his programmes! Even more gggrrrrr!!! 🤣

Eat like a fucking person.

He noisily shovels his food in, like some sort of creature emerging from hibernation that’s not eaten in 6 months, talks through these massive mouthfuls, gets it all over his face, and does not give a shit how repellent it is to everyone around him, he seems to delight in doing it.

I think I might be a bit hormonal right now. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Can't have a coffee break that only takes 5-10 minutes it's always 20 minutes plus. Drives me mad

This is me! Standing joke in our house that I cook for the street.

He cannot:
Do a bedtime routine. I have joked that if left to him, there would be mattresses lying about on the floor for the kids to crash on when they run out of steam. That would be his idea of bedtime.
Talk quietly. He has one volume. Loud.
Hoover, unless it's a glass he broke.
Put up shelves or do DIY.
Remember the who has priority rules on a mini roundabout.
Put the damn phone away when driving.
Dance. He can do a good robot but that isn't dancing is it?
Eat just one bag of crisps, drink just one beer, eat just one chocolate in the box.
Dry clothes without them looking crimped.
Iron. He will happily do it but destroy everything.

As per Mumsnet, don't get me wrong he's a great dad 😁

My list of can't do's would be much much longer however.

Hang washing out properly. Leaves sleeves inside out and the seams skewiff (I have given him instructions but he claims it makes no difference to how it dries 😫

I won't bore you with the list.

Stack the dishwasher or hang out wet washing (it's always creased, hung over a point so you get a big dent, or crammed together so doesn't dry properly)

But he otherwise he's much more of a domestic goddess than me, so I can't complain!

Sort medication. He’s only recently started taking various things and he can’t get his head round the different names and dosage and keeps making mistakes. He’s normally very bright. I’ve had to write it out and put it in different day and time pill boxes

Can’t tell the difference between a tidy house and a clean house.

Can’t sing. At all. Yet, he always does.

Incapable of helping find anything that’s been mislaid. I dread hearing “I’ll help you look!” - his shit searching skills makes me more stressed 😂

Pack for a trip. He does it himself but frequently forgets something important.