Things that DH does that annoy the hell out of you?

[SarahLibra1974]

Name three;

1. He constantly flushes wet wipes down the loo.

1. He never gives a straight answer.

1. He will always try to please his bosses at work, even if it affects his family time, or time with me.

Go!

All of the above.

Just fucking faffing. Mornings.

Me, coffee banana, make up on route, kids out etc

Come home to his faffing mess, scrambled egg pot ( unwashed) having spent an hour leaving the house, its shite.

Just feeling burdened by his inability to clean up as you go along.

He only does one thing I don’t like. If I don’t hear a question and I say, ‘pardon?’ he bizarrely only repeats a single word.

Example, “What do fancy for dinner tomorrow evening?”

Me, “pardon”? Him, “dinner”. Me, “what about dinner?

Him, “Did you use the vacuum earlier? Is it back on charge?” Me, “pardon?” Him, “vacuum”. Me, “what about it?”

It’s a constant guessing game.

1. bitches about me behind my back on an Internet forum

When I ask him to do something it's always in a minute.

When feeling poorly letting me know about it every five seconds and ignoring my advice to go to the doctors.

Doing the dishes and drying them but leaving one odd glass to drain and never wiping down sink or worktop.

1. Snaps at me over nothing then denies he has snapped, claims it's me who has snapped and he was just retaliating, and even if I get him to admit he snapped first, always it's my fault apparently, for using the wrong tone of voice. Usually when he is stressed over work yet gets angry when I suggest maybe he deals with that instead of bottling it up and using me/DC/DDog as an emotional punching bag. He has ruined many many otherwise lovely moments by being in a horrendous narcissistic mard.

1. Still doesn't reliably put things in the bin. Left on the side. Above the cupboard with the bin in it.

1. Never finishes a job. Unpack the dishwasher but leave some clean dishes on the side. Put away clothes but always leave a couple of things out. Vacuum the floors but always leave the bathroom or kitchen out of it. Clean down the bathroom but ignore the bath. Clean down the hob but ignore the worktops. Clean down the worktops but ignore the dirty sink. On and on and on.

I wish I had a magical cleaning wife like me

1 - Leaves his clothes on the floor because "they're too dirty for the wardrobe but not dirty enough for the wash." I thought there were only 2 categories....

2 - Leaves dirty plates & cutlery ON TOP of the dishwasher.

3 - Leaves paperwork in piles round the house & never puts it away.

4 - Takes an absolute AGE to get the point of what he's trying to say.

5 - Starts talking to me & telling me things when i say I really have to go now. Sometimes I'm standing at the door with my coat on while he waffles away, not giving me a chance to say bye!!

Ahhhh that feels better.

When he books something online like tickets for the cinema or an attraction it always always always involves a shit website, rubbish forms for saving the details. Every single attraction, cinema and theatre we have ever been to has a crap booking system. They must use a different one when I book because I mostly manage without tutting, sighing and a monologue of how awful the whole process is.

How annoying is it collywobbles? I literally have to bite my tongue, and clench my jaw when he says it!

These are hilarious!!

Mine are

1. the faffing whilst leaving the house, which I now realise is common. He often forgets something which is then my fault because apparently I was rushing him.

2. not acknowledging when I say something so that I don’t know if he’s heard or not. I usually then ask, probably a little too sharply, if he’s heard me and he snaps back that it wasn’t a question so he doesn’t have to answer. True, but annoys me.

3. if I say “shall we do xyz later” he’ll say “we’ll see”. Hang on, it was a suggestion, I wasn’t asking your permission

1. He can't say "cafetiere". He says "ca-FETTY-aire." I've told him thousands of times it's CAFF-a-ti-AIRE but he says he can't hear the difference between the two.

1. There are about 3 tunes he consistently sings or whistles with a couple of notes either missing altogether or just wrong, e.g. going up instead of down at the end of the line.

1. He can never mention basil (the herb) or hear someone mention it without saying "Basil? Basil?" in a weird snappy voice which I assume is meant to be from Fawlty Towers, though it doesn't sound much like that actress IMO.

1. He goes to the doctor at the drop of a hat, for things any normal person would leave a week and see what happened. I'm convinced they've got a note on his file that says "total hypochondriac" by now.

1. He keeps buying one particular multipack of yoghurts that's got a flavour in it he doesn't like, so I have to have that flavour every single time, and it's not that I absolutely hate it, but it takes away the choice.

If most of those sound pathetically trivial, that's because he's quite a good DH on the whole.

Leaves his morning teacup on the kitchen counter instead of moving it 8 inches into the dishwasher below. Similarly, leaves his shoes on the hall floor by the shoe shelves rather than on the shelves right beside him.

Opens mail, reads it and then carefully refolds the letter and puts it back in the envelope.

Puts a load of washing on then leaves it in ththe machine until the next day instead of hanging it up. Or worse, puts it in the dryer even though it’s blazing sunshine outside

Asks vague things like “where’s the thingy?” hen gets annoyed when I don’t know why he means. Or gives directions while I’m driving that involve saying “turn that way” with no indication of which direction, then gets annoyed when I kiss the turning

1. When asked what he'd like to do today/what he wants for dinner/what film he wants to watch his response is always "Dunno, whatever you want."

2. Going to the kitchen for a drink or snack and not asking me if I want anything! I always ask him!

3. Coming in from work, getting undressed and dropping his uniform where he stands. The next day he asks "Babe, is my work shirt clean?" as if the laundry fairy is flying along after him!

He can be lovely though. We put up with each other

Will never remember conversations he has previously had with people. For example, at the weekend we met up with another couple for the third time in about three months. DP said something to other male along lines of “once I went to a concert and this (insert anecdote) happened” male friend replied “Haha, I once went to a different concert and similar (insert anecdote) happened”. I was shocked that neither of them could remember having the exact same conversation the previous two times we met. I pointed it out to them and they admitted they didn’t realise.

As an extension of this, DP hates it when we are socialising and I say anything witty, clever or interesting. He complains that I am too quiet and “oooh look at you piping up now when you’ve sat there saying not much for 10 minutes”. Yes dear, that’s because I actually listen to people, don’t repeat the same boring story on multiple occasions and will only say something if it’s worth adding to the conversation.

He is great usually, I love him dearly. I don’t drive and he never moans about having to do long journeys when we go away. He’s a good driver and makes me feel safe in the car.

He’s very patient with me, even when I make mistakes, he never gets cross with me.

He does try to help out around the house as much as he can, although he will admit he doesn’t do as much as me and I don’t mind because we both work full time and he drives me to work in the morning after doing a late shift so we both do our fair share IMO.

Carefully rolls his dirty dark socks and underpants into a ball within his white cotton work shirt and lobs the ball into the laundry basket so I have to unroll them when sorting the washing.

Directions/geography/satnavs etc. Fuck me he is hopeless! We’ll be driving somewhere (that we’ve been to several times previously) and at a junction/roundabout he’ll suddenly pipe up ‘what lane do I need to be in here? Am I going left/right/straight ahead?’

The bloody satnav is telling you exactly what to do, as are the road markings!!! Stop asking me!

Bloody good thread
1- grunts when he gets out of a chair
2- grunts when he gets into a chair.
3-can't be arsed to learn how to fold his music stand up and carries it around half folded (like a complete pillock)
4-only starts listening to me when an interesting word comes up. So I have to repeat myself
5-leaves important paperwork just anywhere and demand to know where I put it a month later BUT I know put all the his paperwork (rubbish and important) in 1 drawer. . Which has saved me a lot of grief.
6-seems to have no awareness of how people react to him. But then I am over aware.

Probably the thing that winds me up most is whenever he does anything, eg: puts the dishwasher on, changes the loo roll, runs a hoover around, mows the lawn... it's always I've done such and such for you as if anything he does is a huge favour that requires lavish praise when really it is something that he should just do as part and parcel of being part of a family and contributing to the running of the household.

Hoards plates, glasses and mugs on his computer desk.

Dirty clothes, NEXT to the wash basket.

WET TOWELS ON THE BED.

wow.. maybe I should LTB?

1. When doing a DIY job, spends about 10 minutes doing the job, then goes to make a cup of tea, which he then takes 20 minutes to drink (as he sits outside and reads/smokes). Then about another 10 mins on the DIY before making another cup of tea. He will do this 3 or 4 times before deciding that's enough DIY for one day.

1. Leaves little scraps of food by the kitchen sink when clearing plates, rather than sticking them in the waste caddy 6 inches away or putting them in the bin. I always end up having to clear these away.

1. When I'm reading/watching a film/any other activity that requires a bit of concentration, will ask me a question and get cross that I wasn't listening WHEN I DIDN'T REALISE HE WAS TALKING TO ME!

It appears my issues are quite common!

1. Half a job Bob - sweeps the floor, leaves swept up dirt in a pile. Puts away shopping, leaves bags out. Cleans up from dinner but doesn’t wipe surfaces. ARGHHH
2. Faffing - Jesus Christ man get out of the house and stop pissing about
3. @foxtiger the doctor thing! Not every slight niggle on your body requires a GP visit, go to the pharmacy or perhaps try shutting up. This gives me the fear that one day, boy who cried wolf style, he will have something really wrong and I’ll tell him he’s fine and to stop moaning

Constantly does things that I've asked him not to do. Examples...socks always end up on the floor hidden at the side of the basket or just behind rather than it it so I'll think I've done ALL of the washing to later discover 2 socks on the floor. This makes me irrationally angry because I hate having dirty washing I love having an empty basket and his 2 stray socks pisses me right off. He also leaves his soap festering which is rancid I've asked him numerous time to rinse the dish after he's used his soap in the morning and he doesn't. It's hardly an effort is it?

Uses a shit load of butter on his crumpets, I mean to the extent that it swims on his plate where it's melted through and he has brown sauce with EVERY sandwich, not on it but at the side to dip it in. Tuna mayo, cheese, egg mayo, chicken, or beef anything goes.

Puts his entire hand into his crisp bag instead of his finger and thumb so he gets crisp flavouring all over his hand like a two year old. It's super noisy because he's rustling his entire hand in there when we are watching tv and he constantly shakes the bag in between digging into it

He does loads of irritating stuff. I could go on for years

He rolls paper. Any paper. And if there isn’t paper to hand, he might roll the end of a tshirt he’s wearing etc etc. It’s so odd.

DH has spent years driving tractors, vans, lorries etc, so is now physically unable to shut a car door without slamming it like it weighs half a ton. It got to the stage that when DS was younger he would flinch involuntarily whenever DH got out the car. Now as a teen DS has started to do exactly the same, so that will be nice for my future DiL
DH cannot get in or out of bed quietly, without obscene amounts of flapping quilt, creaking bed noises and theatrical sighing or yawning.
He also sneezes so loudly He doesn't sneeze half as loudly in public, so I maintain he's doing it on purpose to wind me up