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?

This is a very, very petty one...but when he dries his hands, he scrunches up the towel to the corner of the towel rail, and somehow manages to always leave it half hanging off as well.

AmateurSwami Seriously? The above poster’s husband constantly pulls down her underwear? Is it supposed to be funny?
I’m amazed there is a word for it!

I’ve come back to the thread for some giggles. Except for the weird stuff.

Anyway, some more from me.

Dh is tidy but fucking lazy. It’s an odd combination borne from the fact his dad was a neat freak but his mum did everything.....
So, dh will be clean and tidy and willberate the kids for dropping a single crumb and every meal time he’ll be literally moving their plates to catch any offending grams. Yet when it comes to cleaning up after a meal (which he at least does), he doesn’t sweep under the table or consistently wipe the table. So leaves a mess.

One thing he is getting better at at least is tidying away clean clothes. Before he would only fold and put his away. Leaving mine and the dcs piled up. Note - I put his away. His excuse is that my drawers are messy (true) so he doesn’t know where to put things (my counter argument is that because they’re messy, there are no rules so put they anywhere).

He’ll literally tidy away his own stuff but no one else’s. This includes washing up pots and pans - whereas I will tidy up everything. I don’t mind if he leaves my mess - but come on, tidy up the kids!

He won’t look for stuff properly - he’ll do the “dh look” as I call it because I’ll see it straight away. Now I won’t even concede if he has a point about something being hard to find or in the wrong place because I doubt he looked properly in the first place.

He’s a bit noise sensitive which annoys me - so I couldn’t put the washing machine/dishwasher on at the most sensible time because the sound bothered him. Luckily we’ve now got a utility room which solves half of that problem. However while he’s sensitive to such noises and expects us to adjust, he quite happily puts the bloody sport on the radio and subjects us to it without checking that it’s ok!

And one rather specific moan is that he separates his socks in the wash. I leave them paired up so that when I come to put them in the machine, I know I’ve got both pairs and will unpair them before chucking them in. Whereas when I find one of his socks, I have to check the pile for the other before I put a load on, as it all gets jumbled up. It sounds minor, it is minor but it helps with sock pairing!!!

He does Alexa's head in.
"Hello there....can you hear me?"

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Kegging sounds awful.

He wears his socks the wrong way round. Eg) with the heel part on the front.

Lots of these have made me laugh and a few have left me gobsmacked!!

Am mostly thankful I’ve been on my own for quite a while now - and do a good enough job of annoying myself half the time.

When my ex took a bath it sounded it sounded like a dolphin was being kept captive in there. The splashing and thrashing sounds were unbelievable and afterwards the whole floor would be soaked. Used to wonder whether I was actually with a merman and if I could make my fortune by outing him to the world!

You've reminded me of another one - "Announces when he’s going to the toilet". Oh, god, yes. It doesn't matter where we are or what we're doing, he feels the need to announce to me, "I shall have to go for a pee in a bit."

Just go like a normal human being! You're a big boy now, I don't need to start looking for toilets for you - or am I supposed to be coming with you and holding it for you?

Some of these are funny. Some of these are serious LTB territory.

DP has to pace around when he’s on the phone. Tres annoying.

Goes for a shit immediately before coming to bed
Why is this annoying?

The other day we had some left over baked beans and he put them in a little sandwich bag in the fridge.
I AM AGOG.

Thought of another one. He insists on stirring things before adding to his plate, even when it doesn't need stirring. Example: I'll make tacos. He'll pick up the bowl of guacamole, stir it back and forth, not even in a circle, just pushing it around like he's checking it's guacamole all the way through, and then dollop it. Same with hummus or tzatziki.

Also says, "what's this? Oh, guacamole", which frankly makes me want to marry him JUST to divorce him.

Cracking his knuckles. I go into flight or fight mode when he does this. If I leave the room (TV watching) he will say 'why does it bother you?' One day he will have no knuckles left....

Oh blueskies that's reminded me, mine doesn't just pace around, he also shouts on the phone. Goes from room to room, sometimes upstairs and downstairs SHOUTING ON THE PHONE. Why???

He never finishes anything. He'll leave 1/4 of a teaspoon of whatever it is and put it in the fridge.

Anyone else's do random pointless tidying ie put things away but in the WRONG PLACE which in my mind is worse than not bothering at all. Especially with the kids toys e.g. lego in the soft toy basket... dressing up gear in the fridge of the play kitchen... it doesn't take any longer to put it where it goes!!! Disclaimer- I have pmt so I could think of hundreds more!

Anyone else's do made up facts? As in, being asked a question, not knowing the answer so make up something so he appears to be an authority on whatever to avoid saying " I don't know". Took me a year or so to cotton on to this habit. So annoying.

@Bubbletrouble43 to the made up facts!! Once confidently and convincingly told me that you didn’t have to change your address on car ownership documents if you’ve changed it on your driving license “because it’s all the dvla” Long story short I missed my car tax reminder and got fined. He does it ALL. THE. TIME. With every little thing.
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Puts unsuitable items in the recycling.

Says "Do you need to go toilet?" to the kids. TO THE, it's TO the toilet!!

Always manages to find the one item of clothing that is too small and picks that to dress the children in.

Apart from that he's great! No idea how people put up with all the lazy fuckers on here, I couldn't put up with half of these!

Cooking - whenever I am cooking he always has to get involved! He's constantly coming in the kitchen and stirring my pans when they don't need stirring

Also whenever he cooks everything has to be done on the highest heat ever. He won't oven cook sausages. They had to be fried. But on maximum heat so the pan smokes and my eyes are stinging by the time he is done! Oven has to go on highest heat so again any oil he has used starts smoking and the kitchen is like a bloody furnace.

He also says one weetabix is a weetabik.

I blame his mother...

Breathes/Snores.

When he has a forkful of food he sticks his tongue out as he brings it up to his mouth, as if to catch anything that might fall off the fork at the last minute.

Breathes through his mouth when concentrating; makes a disgusting noise when flossing his teeth which makes me want to throttle him; thinks that doing laundry is putting it in the machine (forgetting the taking it out, hanging to dry, folding and putting away etc).

He would say that I always leave milk out on the side after I've made a brew, never cook, and am always inexplicably in his way in the kitchen due to my poor spatial awareness, so I think we're even.