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Original poster

What do you secretly do, that would drive your partner mad if they knew?

132 replies

BelfastBloke · 21/09/2016 08:05

I clear (her) hair from the plughole with her eyebrow tweezers.

Oh, and pee in our garden bushes. As does our son.

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Writerwannabe83 · 21/09/2016 08:11

Why do you pee in the bushes? That's so grim.

What a lovely habit to teach your son.....

SaggyNaggy · 21/09/2016 08:13

That wouldn't drive my partner mad, shed just think I was a scummy fucker.

LolaStarr · 21/09/2016 08:13

I don't think I'd be admitting to either of those, disgusting Confused

perrita · 21/09/2016 08:13

Confused why on earth do you pee in the garden bushes? That's disgusting and lazy surely you have at least one toilet inside your property.

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BelfastBloke · 21/09/2016 08:22

I didn't teach my son; he did it of his own accord.

I didn't feel I could criticise as I also enjoy it.

But it's only a few times a year, usually during mowing the lawn or something - it's not like it's a really regular thing. I do think men enjoy peeing outdoors in a primal way.

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tibbawyrots · 21/09/2016 08:24

That's grim. Mankind has evolved a bit since caveman days.

alltouchedout · 21/09/2016 08:25

Ignore his lectures on safety and walk wherever I damn well please whenever I damn well please because I refuse to have my freedom to do so curtailed because I am just a weak little woman. I can make my own assessments of danger and I don't need men to do it for me thanks.

StrawberrytallCake · 21/09/2016 08:26

I bet you wee in the shower too? And then use her tweezers in the shower?? So grim

museumum · 21/09/2016 08:26

Put my mooncup through the dishwasher

timeforsomethingnewithink · 21/09/2016 08:28

Secretly watch Crap tv like Made in Chelsea Grin

acasualobserver · 21/09/2016 08:29

You and your son should be peeing on your compost heap not on your bushes.

Luckystar1 · 21/09/2016 08:30

Well Belfast as a fellow Norn Ironer, I'm going to defend you by pointing out that male urine is frequently advised on mn as a means of keeping cats out of gardens.

Also, I don't see the big deal anyway! It's only pee!

The tweezers thing... It's only hair.

PotatoBread · 21/09/2016 08:30

My DP's dad and his friend dropped by the house to see DD as they were early for somewhere else that they needed to be. They were sitting in the garden and just before leaving they said that they needed to use toilet. I got up to show his friend where I was but both ambled to a corner in the garden and pissed against my bushes. They are both men in their 60s.

I was too shocked to say anything but it is beyond grim

celeste83 · 21/09/2016 08:38

I secretly buy a tub of pringles and demolish it all by myself.

whattheseithakasmean · 21/09/2016 08:38

Lighten up folks, it's pee, not agent orange!

I put horse equipment through the dishwasher (and in the washing machine, but he spots that cos it leaves hair in the drum).

Mycatsabastard · 21/09/2016 08:39

Actually, men peeing in the garden keeps cats away, especially male cats who like to spray.

I can't think of anything I do that DP doesn't know about but he does make the cats bum face when I want to watch something dumbed down on TV such as X factor.

PotatoBread · 21/09/2016 08:40

... am not sure why I found it so grim as I'm sure that there is cat and dog piss on loads of bushes in the near by area. There was just something about it that made me drop my mouth in shock and grimace to myself

lasttimeround · 21/09/2016 08:49

Cross the road without waiting for the green man. Daredevil that I am.

Hagothehills · 21/09/2016 08:51

Buy myself a coffee and maybe something to eat at the costa near ds's nursery instead of taking a thermos and a sad, squashed sandwich from home.
He's very careful with money bloody miser! but it's one of my few chances to have a half hour to relax sans toddler, I'd like to do it properly! Not like it's going to break the bank we aren't rich but we're definitely not skint either.

Also use his beard comb to comb the tangles out of DS curls. He won't let me near him with anything else

ArieltheMermaid1720 · 21/09/2016 08:52

Smoke, very, very occasionally and watch really crap tv like Geordie shore.

notmyfirst · 21/09/2016 09:30

Also have a sneaky coffee from Costa etc (and the overpriced cafe's in the park) when out as a treat (I take a thermos as well, but sometimes I just want to splurge on a coffee).

Original poster
BelfastBloke · 21/09/2016 09:31

If it keeps the neighbours' cats out of my garden I'm going to start doing it more!

I mean, they're my own bushes, and no-one else goes near them - not even my family.

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QueenofallIsee · 21/09/2016 09:51

Secretly smoke a few times a year. Very very ocassionally buy a box of 2 raspberry turnovers and eat both before he comes home from work.

rhiaaaaaaaannon · 21/09/2016 09:54

Drink milk straight out of the bottle and woof back at dogs.

Chocoholicmonster · 21/09/2016 09:58

Am I the only one who's more repulsed by the person who washes her mooncup in the dishwasher than the man who pees in his bushes? Grim.

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