Tiny things that make YBVVVVVU

[Crapuccino]

Guest came over at the weekend. Tipped out the last of the cup of tea she’d made for herself into the sink as we were saying our goodbyes, aong with the teabag. Left the teabag sat there in the plug hole.

Right. There. In the plug hole.

I know, I know, who cares, just fish it out and throw it away when she’s gone, but I momentarily had visions of stuffing said teabag up one of her nostrils in revenge.

Help reassure me that I am not alone in my insanity. What tiny, ridiculous, non-things give you the murdrous rage?

my mum is wonderful, amazing, comes to stay sometimes to help me out with the children, housework etc

and yet her iphone text message sound makes me want to properly hulk out every time

DS walking through the door and leaving his shoes to the right hand side of the door. When there is a shoe basket RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE! He then sighs and moans when I say “basket!” as if I’m being the unreasonable one!

pen clickers - teeny, tiny, thing - stabby, stabby, rage...

My partner takes off his socks after work when he sits on the sofa, he puts them in a pile on the carpet if I don’t tell them to move them a bigger and bigger sock pile will appear over the week! It’s weird, he’s pretty tidy and good at housework in all other areas but the sock pile is his blind spot!!

I think your DP and my DP may be twins separated at birth. Except my DP has started going one better by leaving his fucking socks ON THE FUCKING COFFEE TABLE!

PP who mentioned hair (its always long dark hair) in the wash basins at work..... makes me feel phsyically ill looking at it, and i'm not squeamish. .. vom . I want to find the offenders and loudly give them something for baldness saying they may need it soon

People that drive about 40mph in a national speed limit zone but then when you hit a 30mph zone continue to travel at 40mph!!! WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU SPEED UP WHEN IT WAS LEGAL!!!

@crapuccino 😂😂 That's brilliant! My sil used to do it constantly and when people asked what was wrong it was always "pm me" wtf!

Dh when asked to put the kettle on says every time "it won't fit me "
Dh when asked to check the oven says every time " what's wrong with the colour it is ?"
Makes me very stabby

People who fill the sink with dishes, add washing up liquid, run the hot tap to fill the sink ready to wash the dishes......... Except no. They leave a sink full of water and dishes to go cold and unwashed

OMG! DH does this. Makes me crazy...I can't use my singk AND my dishes aren't clean. Awesome!!

Anyone who breathes in their sleep when I am trying to sleep, especially a little click in the nose. It drives me beserk. To the extent I would rather sleep in a hallway or a bathroom.

-People who tell you something needs doing - washing machine's finished, photocopier's jammed, cat's been sick. Why are you telling me? Just sort it out!
-People who "soak" washing up and don't finish it - meaning I have to stick my hands in cold, greasy water with bits floating in it to empty the water, then wash it.
-People who use the last of something I bought. I'm usually happy for people to share/use/have some but not when I go to use it/take one and have none left!
-People who use the last of something and put the empty box/wrapper back.
-People who don't rinse the bath.
-People (usually DC) who ask you to "look" at something mundane twenty times in 5 minutes. (I know IABU with this one, but would kill for twenty minutes peace without having to look at what the cat's doing, the new thing they bought, their art, the bedsheets they're planning to buy, the messages their friend-enemy-friend sent, - to clarify all are aged 12-25 and it often feels non-stop!)

And finally our very dear cats who won't allow me to move more than an inch away from the sofa without immediately stopping whatever they were doing and crowding round my feet demanding food - despite being fed half an hour ago. (Everyone else in the house gets to move around freely unless they actually interact with a food bowl).

And agree with PPs who mentioned globs of toothpaste in the sink, and people dumping dirty crockery in the sink while you're part-way through washing up.

After several years I managed to train DH out of a couple of annoying traits - one of which is still washing up related.

He is pretty good at doing most jobs but dislikes the "finishing off". E.g. he will happily wash up but dislikes drying and putting away. When we first married if there were pots that had been left to drain but more washing up to do he would still not put away the dry ones but would go ahead washing up and put the wet things on top of the ones still on the draining board. FFS they were already dry and now you have made them wet again!!

The same with laundry. He was pretty good at filling the dishwasher and then getting it out and putting it on the clothes horse to dry. However, he had an aversion to taking the dry things off the clothes horse so the wet clothes would go on top of the dry ones. Grr.

Happily this is in the past but he does still have habit of doing the washing up and as soon as the last pot is washed he just walks away. Sometimes he doesn't even tip the water out of the bowl.

I'm really beginning to see the benefits of living alone.

The zombies that walk, head down, engrossed in their phone through the VERY busy train station in London that I walk through twice a day. It makes me wish I had an invisible electric cattle prod!

Bloody low carbers being all evangelical about arsing bread and sodding FRUIT, fgs.

EssentialHummus the lights/lift one used to drive me demented. However, there's a junction near my house that has at times taken 15 minutes to change after you press the button. Living here for long enough I have worked out if you press left and right at the same time and either someone on the other side of the road hits their button, or you wait 5 minutes and hit the right side again it changes then.
lived here too long

DHs method for emptying the washing machine is to put clean clothes ON TOP OF THE DIRTY ONES IN THE BASKET to move to the drying area. Clean onto dirty. Why.

DH bringing shopping home (including chilled and frozen stuff) and leaving it on the sideboard. I can't work out if he thinks its like tropical fish and he has to let it acclimatise before putting it away, or if he's giving it a fair chance at escaping before it gets incarcerated in a cupboard.

Only if we've been shopping together, mind. If I'm not in then it makes it all the way to its proper home

Metal spoons clinking against tea cups/bowls

Crunching when eating argggh !!!

Crisp munchers on public transport. I had to move seats today cos of a woman destroying a bag of scampi fries. She then opened another bag and wolfed them down. It's the rustling that really gets me.

Rather than take a bag and empty all the upstairs bins into it DH brings them all downstairs, empties them and leaves them downstairs.

WTAF?!

Thank goodness I'm not alone in my abhorrence of noisy eaters (especially when paired with opening/closing mouths), nose pickers, disgusting table manners (throwing silverware onto table when finished eating noisily, napkins all over the place, using YOUR knife, etc, crumbs around their plates as if they were children, ad nauseam).
People who use the phrases "I'm just saying," "I'm trying to tell you," "No problem."

I have an irrational dislike of people just dumping washing up in the bowl instead of on the surface beside the sink. What earthly use is it? You have to take it out again when you want to fill the bowl to do the washing up so that you can wash things in the right order.

People who fill the sink with dishes, add washing up liquid, run the hot tap to fill the sink ready to wash the dishes......... Except no. They leave a sink full of water and dishes to go cold and unwashed meaning I then have to empty the sink and refill it with hot water and wash them anyway!!!! Why do half a bloody job?! Either finish what you start or don't bloody bother!

INFURIATING.

This is both my OH and my DM. In that order.

WHY???

Asking where things are without even pretending to have a look first. Why?!

The wash bin in our bedroom is next to DPs side of the bed. He takes his clothes off and dumps them on top of the basket so it collapses into itself. WHY?!?? I just cannot even begin to get my head around the logic of having a collapsed EMPTY wash basket under his clothes.

My DH also puts his clothes on the lid of the empty washing bin great I really want to look at your pants while you try to seduce me!

Also NEVER PUTS THINGS AWAY and works away, so often I can’t find something as it hasn’t been put in its place and can’t fucking ask him either.