Things that close family members do that aggravate you but for no good reason (lighthearted)

[badonkydonk]

Mine is my mum. I do love her dearly but the one thing that irritates me is the half inch of tea left in a cup. I know her reasoning - back in the day, when tea was made from tea leaves, if you finished the drink, you would get a mouthful of groggy tea leaf sediment.

However, its 2016 and (as a non tea drinker) I would go on oath to state my tea has no grubby leaves at the bottom (I use a bag). Why it annoys me, I have no idea......but finish your bloody drink!

In my defense, I've never raised he subject, just walked away with the cup inwardly seething.

Any other stories of mid annoyances?

[BendydickCuminsnatch]

Bless her though, I do feel bad getting annoyed at her but my god. I just want some peace.

[PearTree1]

Bendydickcuminsnatch Are you my sister because you are exactly describing my Dm. Especially the huffy thing. Thought it was just me that got that

[StrumpersPlunkett]

Love sis to bits but she insists if I text she will reply. So I text..... Radio silence in response then I get the cold shoulder for not communicating!!!!!
I have learned to just carry on and keep texting as if she had replied and after a week or so she melts and replies.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

Both my parents make a clicking sound with their mouths. Both of them don't seem to realise they're doing it and my Dad in particular is quite loud!
I've had to get over my politeness and ask them to please stop it due to what happened the last time my Dad did it.
We were sat in their lounge, it was quiet and I was reading a magazine. My Dad suddenly went "CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK" with his mouth and it felt like I was falling down some sort of weird mental tunnel. I felt my heart speed up, I found it hard to breath and my vision went strange for a moment as if I was going to faint, but I wasn't if that makes sense. Took me a while to catch my breath.
I have to remind my Mum about not making the noise as now every time she does the same thing happens a little bit. Weird.

My Dad does the eating with the fork the "correct" way up. It's a weird thing, isn't it, given that it works so much better the other way.

My Mum tells me anecdotes. One of two things will happen. I will tell her I already know as I've seen it on facebook, already seen the same TV programme or it was me who'd told it to her first - but she'll carry on telling me anyway.
The other option is that I don't already know the anecdote and then she'll get a little lost in the middle and start asking me to help. I then have to point out that I wasn't there and don't know the people she's talking about, but it doesn't stop her looking right at me going "Oh, you know, Sue's best friend, what's her name?"
No, I don't know! I've never met Sue, or her friend!
Oh and chronic over sharing. I've asked time and again for her NOT to tell various people my entire medical history. She now seems to think that it's ok as long as I don't know the people she's telling.

[AdmiralCLingus]

My lovely lovely aunt has the most infuriating habit of saying "oh are you sure you don't mind" when I say "we'll see you on Wednesday then" when she's leaving. She comes every Wednesday and she says it every time. If I didn't want her to come I wouldn't invite her! She aslo does it when you offer her a cuppa/ciggy/dinner/anything "oh as long as you don't mind"

I WOULDN'T FUCKING OFFER IF I DID!!!

[fruityb]

Oh and my FIL makes this noise like "eh yey yey yey yey" as if he's just finished yawning, except he hasn't. He always does it when there's a quiet lull or even when there's not.

Sucking air through teeth is something my dads OH does. She does it like she's trying to dislodge food and I hate it.

[GastonsPomPomWrath]

Smurf - you see, I'd actually prefer a bit of ronseal to the water I usually get but I might adopt "is there a war on?" for the sugar rationing.

[EthelDurant123]

Every time my mil drives to my house she says she has been stopped by the police for some reason. I don't get it.

My DM and DF are vegetarians and going out to dinner with them is a fucking nightmare because in addition to the vegetarianism there are all kinds of other foods they dislike including some vegetables.

[littleprincesssara]

Thinking it's reasonable that if you haven't had breakfast by 7am on holiday your breakfast is going to end up being a Ginsters and a kitkat from a motorway service station because we need to leave asap in order to keep to the itinerary. That 18th century bridge isn't going to blurrily photograph itself!

Holiday itineraries in general.

Asking me if I saw/am watching certain TV shows then explaining the plot in excruciating detail when I say no.

Detailing the exact relationship between me and any one of my eight hundred very distant relatives who I met once when I was four.
It's nice that you ran into my great-aunt's sister-in-law's cousin's stepson at Budgens, and I'm very sorry he failed his BTEC in sport science, but I have no idea who he is.

[maisiejones]

Oh Cigars! The curse of the clacking teeth! My father suddenly developed this habit about six months ago and it drives me insane. All the time, clack, clack, clack, clack. "Dad, you're clacking again" I say. So he stops and a minute later he starts again, obviously completely oblivious. I'm thinking of getting him a set of those joke wind-up teeth because that's just what his clacking reminds me of. 😧 Mind you, at least I've only got him doing it. You've got the stereo version.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

Maisie, it's more of a back of the throat thing, like they're imitating two coconut halves making the galloping sound. I'm not sure which would be more annoying though, that or teeth!
My Dad also does a chewing motion when concentrating on something. I would often ask him what he was eating and he'd look quite baffled.

My parents have funny holiday habits too. The main one being packing. It doesn't matter if they're only going for a one night stay somewhere, my Mum still sets aside and entire day to pack.
I went away with my toddler and my Mum on a last minute weekend trip recently. Last minute as I booked it the day before as there was a great offer on. My Mum had a very middle class panic attack about only having a few hours that evening and the entire following morning to pack.
I did my own and my toddlers packing in half an hour that night and threw in the last minute stuff in the morning. We still had time to go to our usual toddler group on the Friday as my Mum was PACKING!!!
Prepping for a camping holiday takes them a whole week.
I do love my parents.

[Pawprintz]

My in-laws have endless little foibles, bless them. Staying with them is an endurance test especially as they don't drink so I can't self medicate on booze

[OreosAreTasty]

My mum never wants to get off the phone.
"Mum I've got to get off the phone"
"Oh ok... X is being a nightmare today! Do you think I should have curry or pasta for lunch?"
"Mhmmm.. Don't know sorry. Have to go"
"Ok no worries.
By the way..." Goes on for about ten minutes. I do
Feel really sad as she doesn't have anyone else :( so I try to call her once a day if I'm not in work, or after work if I am. If it's a particularly long day (some days I do 7am
Till midnight). I'll text her... But trying to get off the phone if she's on the other end... Better luck prising yourself away from gravity

[NotMyMoney]

My mum goes into every single detail over everything. Example; " I had a knock on the door and the post man had a package for next door, his a lovely chap isn't he and kmocks just loud enough. Then when next door got back I went and knocked on her door. She was wearing a lovely dress with white dots with navy been the main colour and oh her son Milo made up name is so polite he is 7 months now and so handsome" blah blah blah!

She moans if after she's the kids and then moans if my friend has them! Makes a million cups of tea. She also buys herself best mum and grandma mug's she even bought me a mug saying best brother i am not male nor her brother can only assume I was meant to give it to my brother he did enjoy the story attached to the mug

[trinity0097]

Hubby irritates me every time we see shots of Washington DC on TV, 'we've been there' yes I know I was with you!

I can't stand the obsessive scaling my mother does of yogurt tubs etc..

Hubby's noisy eating, weirdly doesn't bother me when I am also eating but when he is eating and I'm not I want to murder him!!!

[kmdwestyorks]

My dad never sleeps. Never gets more than an hour you know. Completely forgets he must have three naps between breakfast and bed and this may be why he doesn't sleep at night. He must also be snoring whilst awake based on the noises i've heard when passing his room. He used to complain non stop about his own mother napping all day long.........

What panics me is dh has started doing it now too and he's not the blood relative. I am!

Because while they're napping theres still disruptive shite on the TV, which you can't hear for the snoring even if you did want to watch last if the summer wine or only fools and horses for the gazillionth time and any move towards the remote results in immediate awakening as they are after all clever enough to watch tv with closed eyes and hear the dialogue above their own snores.

You can even catch them out by testing what they know about the current episode and even when you tell them they're talking about an episode that finished an hour ago, they still deny they were asleep.

[DullUserName]

My MiL does the endless updates on next door's cousin's boss's wife's dog ...

But what really grates is her hovvering around when I'm doing stuff. Not helping. Not talking. Not even really watching. Just hanging around and getting in the way. She did it today when I was making a few trips to unload the car ... just in the way between the car and the door.

[DullUserName]

... and she has to clear the table the very instant that she's finished eating, leaping up while she's still chewing. Drives me mad in restaurants when she'll start scraping and stacking the plates.

I do love her really!

[hollyisalovelyname]

DullUserName Does she mean to be so rude?

[pegomassive1]

Loving this thread. I actually feel like I've already posted somethings are so familiar!

Auntie- "I seem so and so in town...walking towards the library...there used to be a Spanish class on a Wednesday she must have been going there..." she's then tells everyone she seen Mrs Smith at Spanish class...
My gran...she started to tell you a story and you'll say yes I know or yes you told me and she hesitates for a second then needs to tell you again even if you punctuate every breath with "yes you told me...'

Here's one on behalf of dh 'my dw reads out mumsnet threads to me because it's making her laugh when really if I cared I'd be a mumsnetter wouldn't I!!" Hehe

[WhoWantsABrew]

I love this thread!

Both my sil & mil are so overly descriptive it drives me mad.
They both take 10 minutes to tell you something that could have been said in 2 sentences. Every birthdays, they will literally give you a list who gave them what and what was written in the card. I don't care!!!!!

[WipsGlitter]

My mum phoning at teatime and getting huffy if you have to get her off the phone.

When you phone her she is either (a) involved in some task abs asks you to hold on while she finishes or (b) is gripped by a back spasm so you know she's in pain.

She also can't stand silence so wittering on and on. I can't bear it.

[ILoveAGoodBrusselSprout]

When I visit MIL and she makes me a coffee, she ALWAYS leaves a teaspoon in the mug. No one else gets a teaspoon in their mug - just me. WHY? Every single time, I remove it immediately, quite pointedly. I'm sure she does it to piss me off.

DM insists on pronouncing 'sandwich' as 'sammidge'. She's really quite well spoken generally. I have no idea why she does it

[CPtart]

My MIL does the teaspoon thing too. I don't' get it!

[Sonders]

My DM knows I hate her heavy smoking, but I haven't said anything about it for years. Yet, every time I see her, she makes some PA comment to DF/DP/dogs about how she isn't smoking in her own house because 'Sonders doesn't like it'.

But she is smoking, she has about half in the next room and half in the kitchen where we're normally sat as she wanders about!