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?

Sorry that was to @Nabama

Put a light on?

Asks me if I want tea or coffee every time he brews up! He knows damn fine I only drink tea at home so is 100%doing it to piss me off! Arse!

When he washes up he won’t wash the cups and will always always always put the chopping board Over the top of the sink so no one else can use the sink without moving the board first. Drives me round the bend. Spray it, wipe it and put it back where it belongs!

Says 'take over a car' instead of 'over take a car' ahhhhhrrrgh

Sticks the suction dish brush right beside the tap instead of on the completely clear other side of the sink. Why? Why would anybody do that?

Sneezing. He sneezes a lot. Loudly. He can't help it but I still want to shush him every time.

Gets out of the shower soaking wet, soaks the shower mat and it stays wet for days! Goodness knows how he gets it so wet but it drives me mad!

I ask him every week when I'm about to order the food shop if he needs/wants anything. Always says no.

Food shop arrives.

DH - 'Did you order any x, y or z?'

I hang his shirts in the airing cupboard, and when he takes one he puts the coat hanger up on the shelf among the other clothes. Drives me mad, as it takes more effort than putting it back on the rail. He thinks I'm being super critical but I think it's such a little thing, why can't he just do it right!

When I send him to the shop, he always forgets one thing from the list. Every. Time. And it's usually the most vital thing on the list.

He can't see for looking, something can be literally in front of his face and he can't see it.

He always announces it when he goes to the toilet. Does he need a fanfare every time? Just go!

I can be telling him about, say, May from down the roads ill husband, and he'll be nodding and acting like he's listening, then a couple of hours later he'll be like "did you hear May's husband is ill?" like he forgot I was the one who told him in the first place 😡

Ahhhh... That was cathartic 😂

Takes his clothes off before bed, gaily strewing them on the floor just before going to clean his teeth. This trip to the bathroom takes him directly past the laundry basket. Does he put his dirty socks and t-shirt in on his way past? Does he bollocks. It's the same on his way back from the shower in the morning; he walks past the laundry basket with yesterday's pants in his hand and throws them on the floor.

Then shoves the entire lot in the basket once or twice a week, usually just as I am congratulating myself on having done all the laundry.

Either doesn't wipe down the surfaces after doing the washing up, or else doesn't wring out the dish cloth before wiping, so that the surfaces remain underwater for a couple of hours.

Says ‘ pass the pepper & salt ‘ It’s salt and pepper ffs .

I'm loving reading these!!

Mine would be that my dp would rather put all the clean washing on the floor when he goes to bed than put it away, it's not like he doesn't know where the stuff goes...

DH is a sniffer. I don’t know how I haven’t murdered him. “ Blow your nose!” and “use a fucking tissue” are just ignored.

When making toast, digs the spread out from the middle of the tub and leaves a load of crumbs in it. 😠

Another one in agreement about the cup of something - DH does put it on the table when he first brings it through, but when he deems it's at an acceptable temperature, whatever I'm doing and whether my hands are full or not, he picks it up and shoves it at me. Makes me stabby.

Oh yes, the cup. Held a little too close and at an angle that would require contortions to take it from him, if you didn't already have your hands full and hadn't practised the Sarah Millican "No.".

When he gets things out of the cupboards in the kitchen he leaves them open. Sometimes there are three or four cupboard doors open when I go in there.
He is also totally incapable of washing up as he goes along, so if he cooks every utensil, plate, saucepan is piled in the sink.

This is making me laugh so much! So many things are familiar

What is it with the ‘soaking’ dishes phenomenon which appears to be very common?! The ‘leaving stuff in a bowl of water to soak but not getting round to actually washing it for ages, including soaking things like glasses which don’t actually need to be soaked’

Ah yes. Mine leaves things to soak too. Not glasses etc, they go in the dishwasher, but roasting tins, or anything with burnt on food. I think it is so someone else (ie me) will come along and do it.

Another soaker here.
He also never puts away anything complicated, like tupperwear, when unloading the dishwasher, just leaves it on the side.

If the toothpaste tube squeezing is a massive dealbreaker, there is always that revolutionary solution to fall back on ... buy your own toothpaste and keep it hidden away, a bit like the MN secret chocolate hobnob stash in the spare tea caddy in the back of the cupboard.

You could stash it away in your knicker drawer....

My gripe is DH leaving filthy disgusting old washing up water in the sink.

Why oh why keep stinky water full of food bits and scummy fatty stuff floating on top. What use? Absolutely none, but since when has that ever stopped him?

Says ‘can I get....?’ When ordering coffees/meals etc. Gives me the rage.

Wears hard soled slippers on our lovely upstairs carpet. Firstly, it's wearing them because he shuffles around. And secondly, I'm very pregnant and the padding noise makes me want to stab someone.