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To ask what little things your partner does that niggle the hell out of you!!

205 replies

DannyOD · 22/10/2018 16:57

(Lighthearted!!). Whenever my dh makes toast or a sandwich he always puts it on a whacking great dinner plate instead of a tea plate and for some reason it annoys the hell out of me!!!

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fantasmasgoria1 · 22/10/2018 17:53

Procrastinating and faffing is all!

elesbells · 22/10/2018 17:56

Brushes his teeth and tries to talk to me at the same time...irritates me to beyond rational levels..

ContessaGoesAMarching · 22/10/2018 17:57

He says single sex spaces aren't necessary and that 'people should just be nice to each other'.

That irritates me just a fucking tad.

ContessaGoesAMarching · 22/10/2018 17:58

He gets cross if I point out that the people with penises need to be told this more than the people with vaginas.

MrsBartlettforthewin · 22/10/2018 18:00

Doesn't change the loo roll, just balances the new one on top of the old empty cardboard inner. Because I doing the little screwy bit is clearly far to much effort.

oppslateagain my DH does that too lovely some times but bloody annoying at others

AngelsSins · 22/10/2018 18:00

He whistles We Wish You a Merry Christmas randomly throughout the year, just that one line. And when he drinks from a mug, he touches his tongue to the mug before taking a sip, drives me irrationally mad because he looks like a creep when he does it Grin

purpleunicorns · 22/10/2018 18:00

NewGrandad there is a certain way to put it on the spindley thing and as LittleMe said it's over, not under.

Mine also fills the sink with hot water to soak the pots and then just leaves them until the water goes cold 😡

TinklyLittleFart · 22/10/2018 18:02

Spot squeezing (his)

twiglet · 22/10/2018 18:02

Has an inability to change the loo roll off the holder and put the empty tube in the bin. Despite it literally being pull off put new one on and you can do it on the loo! He will put the new roll on top of the bin Angry

Agreeing to do things such as hang out the washing and not doing so until he sees me

LongSummerDays · 22/10/2018 18:04

Does the crappy Facebook quizzes (you know, seventies music, kitchen tools, wanky trivia) and reads them out loud. So if I'm reading, I end up rereading the same paragraph over and over because he was yapping about total bollocks.

Jent13c · 22/10/2018 18:05

Drops his dirty tissues on the floor. He would never do that outside but in his own house?!! He has a cold right now and insufferable. He also chokes every time he coughs, very irritating.

Celtic1hair · 22/10/2018 18:05

Leaving things to soak overnight.....like a butter knife, guess who has to put their hand in a bowl of cold water to empty the sink the next morning?

ConfusedMum82 · 22/10/2018 18:08

Snoring
Being crap with money
Slightly weird but he refuses to use his bank card in a shop, always wants to pay cash Hmm so we have to find a cash machine before shopping. He doesn't trust card readers apparently.

babyarz · 22/10/2018 18:11

He doesn't neatly fold the towel back on the radiator once he's dried his hands. I've told him heaps of time it annoys me so pretty sure he does it on purpose now haha x

LittleMouseontheDairy · 22/10/2018 18:13

Puts the large serrated bread knife in the dishwasher/ by side of sink EVERY TIME it’s been used. Aargh. Don’t normal people just brush the crumbs off it and put it back?! (And wash it once it looks a bit skanky) All it’s done is touch a bagel while cutting it in half...
This might be more about me than him but it still makes me irrationally irritated.

JustDanceAddict · 22/10/2018 18:18

Hangs bath towels on the top of the door - We have heated towel rails. It looks scummy and studenty.
Doesn’t clean his stubble out from the sink properly.
Leaves coat on sofa/office chair etc. Again ‘no time’ to hang it up (cba more like).
If I’m not cooking ie, if I’m going out for dinner or not in, he’ll get a takeaway for him and kids. I sometimes have to say ‘please just do egg/fish fingers/spud’ he’s capable of simple cooking at least!
Leaves dirty plates on top of dishwasher instead of emptying. If he empties he leaves half of it on the surface.
That’s a lot isn’t it!!
I’m sure I do annoying things but I do like to keep things tidy and clean. He would live in mess and like a student if he could get away with it I’m sure.

Mafsa · 22/10/2018 18:19

Uses a towel or tea towel to clean up any mess or spillage instead of a sponge/dish cloth/kitchen roll. And as he is incapable of eating or drinking anything without spilling it (a second gripe), I’m constantly having to do washloads of towels stained with coffee/sauce/whatever he’s recently been consuming.

RoseReally · 22/10/2018 18:23

My DH puts rubbish in the sink instead of the bin. Tea bags, yoghurt pots and lids but the worst is cling film. There's something gross about soggy cling film that makes my skin crawl. I'm sure I do many annoying things too though!

TombIhadaGraveChange · 22/10/2018 18:25

For those of your whose DPs leave tissues in pockets: try this. Put all their clothes in it but put yours straight into the machine. It means the bits of tissue will be kept within the bag and won't go over all your clothes.

MattBerrysHair · 22/10/2018 18:26

Fucking snoring! I rarely get an uninterrupted nights sleep when he stays over. Fortunately I have 4 nights a week to myself to recover.

queenbeetofive · 22/10/2018 18:27

Jesus I could be here all day..

Takes his socks off not using any hands, like scrapes he's foot on the carpet until they roll off Angry

Uses every surface/chair/door in the bloody house to place his clothes on like their fucking ornaments Angry

Falls asleep on the sofa like every five minutes Angry

Walks around the house when his on the phone, like he literally can't just sit and have a conversation he has to walk through every fucking room Angry

Laughs at he's own farts Angry

Try's to talk to me while he's eating a meal but because he has manners and won't eat with he's mouth full there's these long pauses mid conversation Angry

Moans that he never has clean clothes when he's got half dirty clothes all over the house because he'll wear a top for 30 minutes change his mind and put something else on after he's left the first top on a chair somewhere Angry

I could go on on but you'd have to start a part 2 thread Confused

HostessTrolley · 22/10/2018 18:27

Noisy eating.

I win 😡

Exexexcel · 22/10/2018 18:31

Farting with abandon completely shamelessly

ShamelesslyPlacemarking · 22/10/2018 18:34

Takes the rubbish bags out of the bins and then puts the bins back in the cupboard (or shuts them) without putting a new bin liner in.

Swallows daily vitamin pills without water so he has to put them right on the back of his tongue and make a gagging sound to swallow them. Just wash them down with a mouthful of water FFS!

I stopped pairing his socks as he goes through about a dozen pairs of near-identical black sports socks a week, all of which have a 'left foot' and a 'right foot' and have to be turned right-way-out to find out which is which. Now they lie in a growing pile on the floor for two or three weeks until he gets around to sorting them.

Sighs heavily whenever he has to get up in the morning like it's the hardest thing in the world, even though I usually do it half an hour to two hours before he does.

Lucisky · 22/10/2018 18:41

We used to have a horrible kitchen with a manky old mixer tap. I used to drape the dish cloth over the tap after use simply to hide it.
We now have a lovely kitchen with a very smart mixer tap. I don't want to sully it's lovely lines with a dishcloth, so I never hang the cloth on it. But he still does. Every time I go in there I move it. He does something in the kitchen and then puts it back on the tap.
I would never mention this, because it is just so petty, and, in the great scheme of things, so unimportant, but it really annoys me.