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?

I've got a live one, happening as we speak... I'm upstairs putting dts to bed ... he's cooking tea... ( I know, i am appreciative) REALLY LOUDLY... slamming the kitchen drawers, clattering pans, and I've never heard anyone manage to use a bin this loudly before!

Ooh flying elbow I hear you with the stupid fucking coughing 😤😤😤

Oldraver LTB

Lol at "Breathes" 🤣 so true 🤣

OMG they are all the fucking same! The scraping of the bloody plate with the knife & fork when eating dinner - shit the fuck up & stop it now before I strangle you!!!

If I ask him whether he'd like something to eat or drink, whether that's seconds at tea time, or a cup of tea, or a glass of water, he pauses for a few minutes, pretends to think about it, and says yes.

This man has literally NEVER TURNED DOWN FOOD, yet always pretends to consider whether he actually wants it. Don't pretend! You're a greedy bastard, just own it.

If I ask my boyfriend a question he will answer it (he’s very clever so he pretty much always knows the answer and he’ll admit it if he doesn’t), but then put ‘isn’t it?’, on the end of his answer.

“What’s the capital of Sweden?”*
“It’s Stockholm, isn’t it?”

I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking you! And you know that I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking you! I think it’s supposed to avoid seeming patronising but it just does the opposite

*I have not asked him this. My geography isn’t great, but it does extend to knowing the answer to this.

After washing up leaves the basin full of cold, dirty water with the cloth floating in it so that if I want to wipe something (or dry out the cloth) I have to put my hands into the grey, greasy water. Would it be so hard to empty the basin and wring out the cloth??
Also leaves random things lying around as a “visual reminder” to do something for ages at a time. Like, overripe fruit (a pet hate of mine) sitting in the middle of the kitchen table to remind him to eat it first.

FYI, this has ended up in the Daily Fail - they are sooooooo lazy!!

Has mumsnet taken legal advice on the theft of material from their forums?

Not tidying up after himself until the house looks like a bomb site

Oh and uses something up and never adds it to the shopping list! Then complains when we don't have it in

He leaves bits of clothes, tea towels, bin liners, whatever is in the drawer, poking out of the drawer. Just tuck it in, FFS. And he leaves drawers, cupboards and wardrobes ajar too. How hard is it to close a bloody cupboard?

@Bunglefromrainbow In my mind I’m screaming It’s TEA! DO YOU WANT TEA Haha, @MayFayner , in my house if I ask "do you want Tea" that means "do you want dinner". Similarly what annoys me is when my DP asks for "a tea" just as the show we are watching has started. You knew you wanted it but waited until the opening credits had finished before asking, I'm deliberately not putting enough milk in now :)

Why don't you tell him to make his own tea?

He is incapable of putting lids back on things properly!

Mine doesn't just squeeze the toothpaste from the middle, he also squeezes it from the sides, so the tube ends up a crumpled twisted mess! Aaargh.
He puts the laundry away, but leaves mine in a pile on the bedroom chair because ' your wardrobes are private' Aaaargh.
Puts the empty loo roll middle on the sink. The bin is around 6 inches away! Aaaargh.
On going to bed on a night, he always tucks the dog up in her bed and actually covers her with a blanket, tucking that in too while saying night night, sweet dreams, love you. Dog like

Many many things, big and small. A sample:
Sniffs all the bastard bloody time. Hay fever and allergies so I should be sympathetic but I want to kill him.
Chews his fingers / finger nails.
Grrrrrrrr

Turns the volume of the kitchen radio down to silent instead of just turning it off.

Whatever cupboard I need to get into in the kitchen, he’ll be standing in front of it just buggering about on his phone

100 x this!!! It drives me batty!

“Please can I get...”

In coffee shops, in restaurants...

Always how old is he? My teens have started saying that!😳

Cant seem to make anything with bread without leaving a trail of crumbs?! Its really not that hard but we have black worktops so they show up so badly!

Pronounces brewery as bewery and theatre as thee-etta. Grrrrrr

Apart from these major annoyances he is absolutely lovely 😊

Leaves his wet towel on the bed

Leaves empty loo rolls in the bathroom
Leaves the tap running in the bathroom for no good reason
Leaves his water bottle From the gym on the side
Leaves the freezer door ajar several times a year and doesn't think this is a big deal
Leaves great big clodhoppers walking shoes downstairs
Is that enough...? there is more.