What’s the most minor thing your other half does that unreasonably winds you up?

[FiveFarthings]

Confession time just for fun (need some light relief after being up all night with baby!)

What’s the most minor thing that your other half does that unreasonably winds you up?

For me, it’s that my husband squeezes the tube of tooth paste from the middle rather than the bottom, leaving the tube all twisted so you can’t get anything out. It is such a minor thing but my god it makes me rage and I am totally disproportionately unreasonable about it!

Anyone else have anything similar?

Where to start ?

Overfills the washing machine. It drives me absolutely round the bend.

@KaleidoscopeEyes @NellieEllie. Here too with the cup of something. Just put it down! I end up yelling

I’ve thought of more

When ordering McDonald’s at the drive through or takeaway on the phone he says ‘can I get ..., can I get ..., can I get ...’ surely people vary their speech?!

Also jabs his middle finger at what he wants on the menu and presses it down so hard when he’s reading to the waiter what he wants.

@NellieEllie @HerRoyalNotness
thank god this happens to you too

Tbh I love him madly but he drives me up the fucking wall with soooo many things it was hard to only mention 2....

Another one of the worst - on the rare occasion he comes to bed at the same time as me, he'll lie there and watch me read a book. If I'm very lucky he will read an passage from the page out loud. WHY??? I'm reading! Stfu, stop looking at me and go to fucking sleep before I put a pillow over your face.

I'm making myself angry

Becomes this meek, subordinate little puppy around tradesmen

Doesn't put the bathroom fan on before having a shower. I walk upstairs and the humidity from the steamy bathroom hits me as I walk upstairs....drives me crackers!!

Pronounces Ice Cream as i-scream
Drives me bonkers !

Puts the books our baby has pulled from the shelf back with the spine facing inwards. Why??? It takes just the same effort to do it properly and just looks crap.

I live alone. Nothing that any of you has said makes me want to do otherwise.

Snores - it's awful

Calls windscreen wipers 'window screen wipers' I don't know why, but it's really fucking annoying and I'm annoyed just typing this.

Puts salt on his food before tasting it.

There are more. He's a lovely man really and I know I do lots of things that irritate him. Some I do on purpose.

I'll say ”I’ve just put the glass recycling in the car” as we're going out later.

Later, as we're finally leaving the house he’ll suddenly stop dead in the doorway, try to go back in the house, pushing past me and ask ”did you put the recycling in the car?”

No. I just thought I would tell you I had done it for shits and giggles. It's how I roll.

He puts the washing machine on really long settings like 2 hours long which is not necessary, heating on when he's sat in his shorts and top off, heating on but the radiators turned off and the gas fire on....

He cleans the kitchen floor with a tea towel. Leaves all the dirty pots in a bowl of of water "to soak" so that you have to put your hand into a bowl of cold greasy water. Mugs don't need soaking! He puts milk bottles back in the fridge when there's about half a teaspoon of milk left.

I walk round the house brushing my teeth though

He uses tissues and leaves them in a soggy mess wherever he's used them.
One of these days I'm gonna ram them up his hooter and set fire to them!!!

Before we split up, I'd say breathe 😆

Puts water in the kettle the night before for the morning tea, it always tastes better if fresh from the tap I think oh and makes it too milky also.

Now I fully accept that I live an ideal life if that’s all that bugs me but the OP did say most minor.

Plus, uses a ‘normal’ fork for the cat food instead of the ‘cat fork’.

Disclaimer: we do wash our cutlery.

THE FUCKING CHEESE KNIFE!!!
Cuts lump of cheese....leaves knife on the side with crumbs....claims he will go back....fucking doesn't.
(This is the thing he will end up under the patio for!)

Wanders round the narrow kitchen while I'm busy opening the cupboard doors looking for snacks.

Balls his manky work socks up into a teeny tiny ball so when you put a wash on you have to stick your hands in the sweaty gross things.

Puts the radio on his phone on to go to sleep..then puts it under his pillow..so when I wake up in the middle of the night all I can hear is this maddening burbling noise and I have to fish under his pillow to turn it off because I CAN'T GET BACK TO SLEEP WITH WEIRD MURMURING IN THE BACKGROUND.

Swallows very loudly. Unnecessarily loudly.

Is very particular and will spend ages just finishing things at his pace. For example if we went to a cafe with our toddler dc, he’d silently insist on finishing the coffee at the end nice and slowly even though it was obvious that said toddler was getting restless. I would down my drink quickly and have to contain said toddler. Dh would be oblivious to me saying we needed to get going.

Oh and after a decade together the noise he makes when eating has started to make me fucking rage!

No idea why but it's making me murderous!

Spraying deodrant in the bedroom when I have just come home from a night shift and want to go to bed. I could literally strangle him

@brummiesue omg my husband does this... everything reeks of lynx or brut or whatever... he wont use a roll on and he wont spray less, he sprays it all over himself the entire house reeks for hours I hate it

Never, ever, ever shuts the door to the downstairs toilet after he’s used it (it’s off the utility room).
Scrapes his plate so much it’s a wonder there’s any glaze left on it.
Never loads the dishwasher, just leaves everything on the top.
If he unloads the dishwasher, he never puts things away, just piles it up on the side.

Too many other things to list here...i’d be here all night!

@KaleidoscopeEyes @NellieEllie. Here too with the cup of something. Just put it down! I end up yelling ...with you both

Would you not just put a light on?