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?

@Moonflower12 mine says vericle instead of vehicle and that old classic ... pacific instead of specific. Who taught these men to speak?

Furries is right this is in the mail! Which actually reminds me of another actually quite serious one, my dp reads the mail online. Which is worse than any of the other things he does, I struggle with it because I sincerely believe anyone who reads the mail is a thick c**t. I'm here hoping my username isn't too outing.

He's doing one now.

Puts a film on tv that's part way through. Except we've seen the film several times and own the DVD. Then he'll make 'tssss' noises at some of the amusing bits instead of actually laughing.

Random fucking claps. Usually just as I’ve got the baby to go to sleep.
Never understood why - some kind of tick maybe.

I can't stop laughing at sock hats...

Fills glasses too full.
Leaves j clothes/sponges folded so they don’t dry out but moulder.
Leaves things everywhere !
Likes to leave houses quickly without checking stuff - often leaves things behind etc.
Hates to organise things ahead of time. Likes ‘spontaneity’ to annoying levels.

Aww these are brilliant and have made me smile. My dh can't go through the kitchen without eating something - doesn't matter what it is or if he's just had a 3 course meal. He plays the same cds over and over while he does his ironing. His dirty socks get laid out neatly, cos he's 'only had them on an hour' - as though he doesn't have 70 pairs of socks and we don't have a washer fgs! And he'll insist on using the same mug for all his15 brews of the day.

So so many things.
He wears his socks so they hang off his feet. Why doesn't he just pull them up. Drives me insane.
Sometimes wears 2 pairs of socks and then takes them off in random places rather than put them in the wash. If they make it into the walking, they are always still inside each other and they get washed like that.
Eats fruit and leaves the skin / core wherever he happened to be when he finished it; on the arm of the chair, by the front door, next to the toilet! Apparently the magic cleaning fairies put them in the food waste.
Clacks his teeth together when he eats. Chews SO loudly.
Tells the kids off for chewing with their mouths open with a mouthful of food in his own mouth.
Wakes up like he's been poked with a cattle prod; flailing around and saying huh, huh like
It's the biggest shock in the world. Most of the time all I'm doing is getting back into bed really quietly after nipping to the loo.

There are more but this post will be way too long.

And says proply instead of propERly.
Says 'f' sound instead of 'th' teef instead of teeth. Been together 20 years and only noticed it when DD started doing it too. Pick them both up on it every time.

Will use a chopping board or plate to put butter/jam/cheese whatever on his toast but then wanders around the kitchen eating it.

And won't sweep up the crumbs unless specifically asked.

Cannot get into bed without making sure he the cover is ABSOLUTELY parallel to the bed even if I'm in it and asleep

If he needs to do a poo he will seek me out to announce it to me before he goes. Every. Time.

Ah I've scrolled up a bit further and seen poo announcing is not unique to DP! Somehow I'm not surprised!

I could probably write you a list as long as this thread but irritations that spring to mind:

• he leaves the fridge open while he makes a sandwich just so he doesn't have to open the door more than once. Drives me nuts.

• brushes his teeth while wandering aimlessly around the apartment, leaving white toothpaste drips on our dark wood floors

Aargh it gets me mad just thinking about it

Although, I'm currently laid up in bed and he's brought me a coffee and a raspberry & lemon tart so I may let one thing slide today.

Clears his throat constantly. Almost after every fucking sentence. It's not noisy but it's very very irritating.

I've started mimicking it to show how often he does it. But he doesn't realise he's doing it so then he tells me off for clearing my throat.

Jesus fucking Christ I could actually do a murder sometimes.

DP: We've got loads of little jobs to do in the house. I made a list and have assigned us each jobs

Me (a month later): I did all my jobs

DP (a month later): I have several excuses for why I have done all but two of my jobs

DP (three months later): I have even more excuses for why these two jobs are still outstanding

DP (anything up to a thousand years later): Christine will you do these two jobs for me because I have lots of excuses why I can't do them. I'll make all the tea for a month.

FAAAACK. You assigned the jobs in the first place, why not just give me the ones you didn't want/couldn't be asked to fucking do.

Christine do you think he could be lactose intolerant? It's very common and can be quite mild but irritating if you have milk every day. My husband's throat clearing and suffocating flatulence is much better since he stopped having milk and cereal every morning.

Don't mean to interrupt your rant, bu if it works, it sounds like it might save lives

Scratch that. I've just come down to make a drink and all his breakfast stuff is in the sink in cold greasy water. He also got himself food but didn't ask DS if he wanted anything. OK he's 14 but I always ask him.

Getting ready to go somewhere, the more I pressure him to hurry, the slower he gets. I hate being late (especially when meeting friends for dinner), he's never admitted it, but I think he likes being last to arrive. He's the opposite when flying, likes to be st airport 4 hours before departure. Even lies to me about flight times!

Three major things:

• Overfills the washing machine so the clothes don't wash properly so they have to be washed twice. Then he moans about the electricity bill.

• Doesn't rinse stuff before putting it the dishwasher so it doesn't wash properly and sometimes has to be put on again if really bad. Then he moans about the electricity bill.

• Throws things away under the guise of tidying. He's a very tidy organised person which is great but sometimes gets overzealous and throws important stuff away like manuals for appliances. I go looking for them, can't find them, ask him where they are, he can't remember, I accuse him of throwing them away, he denies it then ten minutes later admits that he 'probably' did throw them away. Argh!

I didn't put in the washing machine link. MN did that.

@QuimReaper Thank you for your suggestion and for giving my DP the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, that's not it. He doesn't eat/drink dairy... he's just a massive, irritating twat.

Adds water to the end of bottles of hand wash to make it go further but adds too much so that when you press the pump the resulting slightly soapy water squirts all over the counter and is too watery to wash your hands effectively.

He does lots of major irritating things - mainly to do with cycling and bicycle maintenance.

But in terms of petty irritants, he has a habit of leaving the shower gel bottle balanced on the flat surface of the mixer taps. It drives me round the bend.

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