Dd - bloody nightmare for NOT ANSWERING HER PHONE. It's an all singing all dancing fairly new (but not absolute latest) yet she claims she doesn't hear it! Well then put a bloody ring tone on you DO hear😡
Dd - you'll all flame me for this one cos it's the opposite to those that dither - has EXACTLY the same meal (including certain alterations to the dishes) every time we go to X y Z restaurants or order in. I KNOW it doesn't affect me and there's no annoying dithering blah blah but I just think it must be SO boring for her - she says not that she just knows what she's like but it's like eating with a certain type of pensioner my bloody father who NEVER ventures to try anything new! I've even caught her out saying she doesn't like a thing when I KNOW she's never tried it! Where it does affect me slightly is when I'm cooking same dish for both of us (I'm veggie) I'm limited what I can make and I am starting to get bored making the same things all the time.
Empty packaging left in fridge/cupboard leading me to think we don't need more of whatever it is!
Mum - texts me, I text her back BUT if I text first - she PHONES back - no if I wanted to/had time to speak I'd have phoned! Why?!
THEN she does THIS:
"My mother will phone me, and then quite blatantly stop listening to whatever I am saying, while making mm-hmm, ok noises" so clearly she wasn't really in the mood for a chat either!
She also has this weird ability to answer questions asked 2/3 conversations previously in the middle of a new conversation that is COMPLETELY unrelated! Usually by this point the answer no longer even matters!!!
It's a bit like this in reverse:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvmRI6K8TS8
She also is a frequent and persistent finger drummer which I find intensely irritating.
Also a professional bloody faffer! We have a small shopping area nearby most of the shops you'd need on one street, does she go up one side and down the other going in the shops she needs as she reaches them? No? She'll go right the other end first and get what she wants from the last shop, then goes back to beginning and goes in one of first shops, then to a shop in the middle... NO rhyme or reason to it whatsoever! Then bemoans how long it takes her!
Bro - farts about on computer/X box whatever while I'm on phone to him, gets distracted and then when he wins or something SHOUTS right in my ear! Or if he's telling one of his boys not to do yet another kamikaze stunt (his influence) it's me that gets screamed in my ear something like "STOP RIGHT THERE!!!! DO NOT TRY AND FLY OFF THE KITCHEN CABINET" or similar - just move the bloody phone away from your mouth first!
Re all the sniffers - have they been checked for sinus issues? I used to do this and it annoyed my ex, it was due to repeated sinus infections, but after a lot of trips to gp and eventually a referral to ent turned out I had a small blockage due to a previous infection that had never properly cleared. Once it was removed no more sniffing. Could also be allergies. I have hayfever too which starts with feeling blocked and as if sniffing will help (it doesn't) dd usually gets to almost strangling me then says to me I need to start taking my allergy meds.
"Cough medicine doesn't actually work apparently." Cough medicine is pretty limited in its effectiveness to be honest. You need to address the cause. If not cold/infection related could be a nasal drip/allergies again.
Following other pps who similarly digressed -
The Ex!
Sniffer - not of the kind I meant earlier where there might be an explainable cause but real hoiking, vomit inducing, collecting phlegm to spit out! 😷
Ate ridiculously fast, pure inhaled his food!! He said it was due to being army and if you didn't eat fast enough somebody would Nick it - BUT my dad and other relatives also army backgrounds and they DON'T do this. He also never used a knife unless there was something like a chop he had to cut up, then he'd cut it all up at beginning of meal and then just use the fork.
Also ate and talked with mouth open, food literally falling out! 😷bleurgh!
"Crack" joints constantly followed by a loud "ahh that's better"
Contrary to the "half job" thing if he did a job he'd go all out so eg if he mopped the kitchen floor he'd pull everything out and mop under etc BUT he'd expect a fucking medal for it because he only did it once in a blue bloody moon and he'd take the attitude as if why couldn't I do a better job when I did it - that would be because I've a million other bloody things to do!!! I haven't time to spend 2.5 hours mopping the kitchen floor! Although he did also used to do the dishes WITHOUT first collecting up HIS numerous half cuppas from about the house so I'd end up tidying them away before bed and washing them with the breakfast dishes - I started off washing them late at night but then thought stuff that he's supposed to have washed them!
Not emptying gym kit promptly from gym bag leaving the sweary festering mess until he deigned to put it in the laundry basket the day before he needed it again - which also pissed me off as I'd sometimes stupidly think I'd caught up on the laundry only to have to put a load on just so his bloody kit was dry in time! Also throwing clothes so they landed NEAR the laundry basket rather than actually getting off arse and PUTTING THEM IN Laundry basket - this phase didn't last long as I stopped washing things that weren't actually IN the basket.
Staying up stupid late playing bloody computer games then being murder for getting up in mornings cos he was knackered - well d'uh!!
Wanting to sleep with Windows wide open in bedroom even in depths of winter when it was bloody freezing! And then hogging the duvet!
It's amazing I stayed as long as I did to be honest!
I know I'm not perfect either. Dd tells me she's wrong I am perfect
Captain is his son 5-9 years old? If so more than likely a phase. Lots of kids do it around this age ime.