Things that your OH does that just wind me up… light hearted

[Worriedsickmostofthetime]

Should say winds YOU up. Nothing your OH does will wind me up 😂 Sitting watching tv. My DH will watch a movie 10 times over. It’s not intentional viewing. He will literally sit down, put the tv on and watch whatever is on the tv no matter how many times he has already seen it. Doesn’t matter if it’s from the beginning or if he picks up half way through. Drives me silly.

filling up dirty dishes with water ‘to soak’ and then leave them balancing on the middle of the kitchen sink, rendering it unusable for anything else, never to return to them

You should add golf to your user name as well. Some time heavy hobbies will give you room to assess whether you can live with this or not. 😁

1820 tea towels per annum in addition to the ones used for their correct purpose. That's nearly 20k over the next decade. Only you can free yourself from this. We can't do it for you. Now quack on and get those ducks in a row 😂

Often he will come into the house and not say anything so just pop up out of nowhere and scare the shit out of me. What's wrong with shouting hello when you come through the door?

Love him to bits, he does so much for me and has cared for me throughout ill health but my God when he cooks something, when it's finished, instead of putting the over gloves back where they belong, he'll leave them on the counter and it drives me insane 😂

Soooooooooo many things, it makes me wonder why I stick with him. 😆 #joking (half joking!)

Over 30 years together and familiarity breeds contempt! 😂

He records and watches every pre 1950s (usually black and white) film on Talking pictures, that was out some years before he was born, so it's not for sentimental reasons. 80% of them are SHIT.

Like with you @Worriedsickmostofthetime he puts a film on the TV, sometimes 'for background noise' even if he has seen it 15 times in the past 5 years. (He is obsessed with watching TV!)

Flicks his slipper up in the air (when he's sitting down with his legs crossed.)

Eats things with a knife and fork that should be eaten with your hand/fingers (like cake, garlic bread, naan bread etc.)

Gives a running commentary of what he is watching. (I am on the laptop or reading a book, but he keeps telling me what's happening on what HE is watching.) After a while I tell him to shut up!

Sits on his computer and (again) gives me a running commentary of what he is looking at. Again I tell him to STFU. I don't fucking care and I am doing something/looking at something myself!

Often sits there (at his computer) going 'hmmmmm, well.... gosh........' like he wants me to react and say 'wow what is it, please tell me!'

Repeats the same lines/phrases over and over, that he has said last week, last month, last year. EG, when we're in the car, he swerves to avoid potholes and he says 'I feel like a bad driver doing this!' every fucking time. He must have said it 20 times in the past 6 months. I just say 'yeah I know you feel like a bad driver, you have said it dozens of times before!'

Then when we go into a local charity shop that has a picture of a buddah behind the counter (not for sale, the manager owns it,) he says 'oooh look, me!' Every. Fucking. TIME. He must have said it 100 times. I'm just like >>>🙄

Oh and as another poster said, sometimes he sneaks up on me when I'm in the kitchen or garden. He just appears out of nowhere, and is like 4-5 feet away from me, just looking at me. Freaks me out! I said to him the other day 'I'm going to put a fucking bell round your neck!'

I even close the kitchen door behind me now, so he can't just randomly appear behind me like a ghost! 👻

I'm easily annoyed. 😂 mostly by him!

Mine is the same, the number of times I have nearly walked into the open fridge door. Why do they do it 🤔

Leaves his PJs in the living room every morning after changing 🤬

Mine does this but also leaves the bloody fridge door wide open!

@Gingercatlover Cross post!!

He is not so there are at least two of these specimens out in the wild.....🤣🤣

It's also things he doesn't do that irk me.

Never pushes the office chair back under the desk / the dining chair under the dining table when he's finished using it.

Does loads of washing up but never cleans out the plug strainer / catcher thing when he's finished.

Doesn't clear the work surface before starting up prep / cook so any packets / bottles left out by the kids get splattered with food.

Mine used to do this until my brother and his family came to stay for two weeks and they took leaving cupboard doors open to a whole new level. Kitchen, bathroom, shoe cupboard, wherever! For the first time DH could actually see what I was talking about and is now quite good, most of the time.

My DH has a beard and will stroke his beard and leave the loose hairs on the table. Just put them in the bin! He will also close curtains in a room that im in ive explained often that as I work from home i need the connection to the outside.

My DH and FIL both do this- they will make a special trip to an OUTLET store they got ‘that good t shirt/coat/trainers that time’ and wonder why the flipping clearance shop doesn’t have the exact same one three years later.
Plus:
Never filling mugs or glasses beyond half way thus presenting me with a borrower sized drink.
Walking past the sink and dishwasher to deposit a used dinner plate at the farthest possible place from them. Where it will stay.
Using tea towels to clean the log burner glass so they are all soot stained.
Rarely being able to find anything in the fridge. Sometimes this will be milk.
Always believing his builder mate when he says he will call tomorrow to fix something, then being genuinely surprised when he doesn’t show.

We also have boxes for electricals in the garage AND living room drawers.

@BatchCookBabe

Flicks his slipper up in the air (when he's sitting down with his legs crossed).

Dh is also a "foot fiddler". Drives me insane. Anything near his feet he has to fiddle with. I actually shoved the (empty) baby bouncer away from him once. Not only the constant knock knock knock on the wooden floor, I didn't want his cheesy feet on the baby bouncer. It's like, FGS just sit still!!!

Complains about technology not working ALL THE FUCKING TIME in spite of many things working perfectly most of the time, or user error on his part causing things not to work.

TV producers need to make another series of Grumpy Old Men - he would take up most of the programme!

Oh, and not being able to see things in cupboards. On the shelf. Right there in front of you. There. There!!! Yes, that thing, exactly where I said it was 🙄

Behaves like a driving instructor when I’m driving “go left here…start indicating… you’re braking was too late there… how’s your road position… etc 😡😡😡

I have been driving for 40 years (thats longer than he has) with no issues. It makes me murderous when he does this!!!

I think it’s because he drives a HGV all week, that the roads look different when sat as a passenger in an ordinary car.

Going shopping with him is like going out with Dennis the Menace… all sorts of crap gets slung in the trolley… bizarre stuff that never gets eaten🤷‍♀️ Then he wonders why it’s soooo expensive. At Christmas, the “Tat-ometer” goes through the roof!

Mine does loads of these things but what drives me crazy is he’s very chatty and completely indiscrete. He tells everyone everything, including my stuff. I’m quite reserved but the whole neighbourhood knows everything about me- my health, my finances, etc. He can’t seem to get the hang of the difference between private and public information. Really makes me mad!!

Leaves cupboard and wardrobe doors open
If we watch tv and someone is on who we've not seen in a while he will often remark that he thought they were dead, also does that "they're how old thing" in an incredulous voice about sone famous actor /singer and then does the " they're only 5 years older than me they look awful"
He will fill a rubbish bag til it's overflowing
Fridge - no order - just piles stuff in all over the place and then moans that I haven't eaten x
Garage - piled high with all sorts of crap you have to be a contortionist to get in to access freezer

Takes off dirty worn clothes and piles on top of laundry basket - laundry basket that is empty because he piles everything on top

Loads but the one I’m fuming about right now,
Our mattress topper moves, it slips to one side in the night so I fix it every morning and check it before we go to bed. This morning I got up while he was still in bed and went straight out so wasn’t there to fix it then he was in bed before me so I didn’t think to check it because surely he did, right? WRONG! And he was sound asleep before I noticed so I can’t fix it now. I only noticed because he very clearly noticed first and had compensated for it by sleeping more my side, I tried to move over thinking I had a few more inches of bed but instead it was just sagging topper I can’t even put the weight of one leg on. He knows it does that, he watches me fix and check it every day, the last few times he went to sleep with topper hanging half off I told him its a problem and he needs to pay attention and sort it, but nope instead of taking 2 second to push it back into place he left it so now I won’t get any fucking sleep the stupid prick.

My DH will laugh so loud that it makes me jump. He also does not know how to whisper when people are in bed. If we are relaxing in bed, he will constantly show me videos on his phone that I’m not interested in. So annoying!

Whenever I say we need to a big job he would disappear and will be found changing a glazing unit in a window.

My dad would disappear and my mum only found out years later he was having a quiet nap in their caravan they kept on the drive.

"roving-reporter-live-from-the-kitchen routine"

Oh that is funny (not so if you live with it though!!!!)

Providing a running commentary when watching football on TV. I've told him there are commentators provided and that the players can't hear him but it makes no difference 😅