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?

He gently fiddles with the skin next to his finger nails. Not picking it, just fiddling and it drives me round the bend for absolutely no legitimate reason.

@Skittlesandbeer
I laughed so hard at your post that I woke 5 week old DS who was peacefully snoozing in my arms and is now rather grumpy

Tidies a room by just moving crap into another room and leaving it there.

Wears brown socks with grey trousers even though most of his socks are grey.

Christ so much for being lighthearted! Sorry!

This will sound so petty but if we have coleslaw with a meal he will just eat the whole lot straight away, not eat it with anything else. If he gets it in a restaurant he picks up the little pot and eats the lot in one go - eat it throughout your meal with the other stuff on your plate !!

Oh, where to start...?

Comes and stares at me (particularly if I'm having a lie-in or looking at my phone. I try not to do the latter when he's around because of the comments. So maybe he thinks I'm being surreptitious. I've asked him if my looking at my phone annoys him and he always denies it, but invariably makes derogatory remarks about other people looking at phones. I digress. A lot, sorry...).

Anyway. He'll stare and then eg read out the title of the book I'm reading. I'll say, "Yes. I know". Or, if it's the phone, "Ooh. Pink thing!" (phone is pink). Or he'll stare at my handbag next to me. I ask if he's looking for something. Either says he's not or something inconsequential like, "I was just wondering what that bit of paper was".
Me: "A shopping list". OH: "Ah. I see".
Argh!

Another thing is if he's sniffing or coughing etc I might ask if he has a cold. He'll reply that he didn't think so, but maybe he has. Then tries to convince himself he does. Audibly.

He cannot say "Yes" or "No". It's always "Maybe" or "I doubt it". I worked with him in the past and we used to have a bit of game involving trying to ask a question to which he'd give a straight yes/no answer. Eg "Is the grass green?" "Looks like it".

Honestly, he's got loads of good qualities too, but this has been cathartic and might stop me yelling at him for a bit

@Bunglefromrainbow - Why on earth do you go and make tea for him if he asks when the programme's starting? Either let him go and make it, or wait til the next ad break.

The one that annoys me is the fact he never picks up the bathmat. It doesn't sound too heinous a crime until you learn that he'll come in from the garden in muddy boots, and walk over it to get to the toilet. So clean bathmat becomes very dirty. Added to which the cat comes in through the bathroom window, so will often eat her kills on the mat - not only is it muddy but bloody too. Just what I want to step on when coming out the bath! How hard is it to pick it up?

The inability to close a door, drawer or cupboard after his self. We call him arfur as he only ever does arfur job!

@Yesitsdyed

He's from west coast of Scotland. Maybe it's a thing there.

I've thought of another one. We have a deep cupboard in our hallway, just beside the front door, which contains shoe racks and pegs for coats, so when we come in from outside, shoes and coats come off and go straight into the cupboard. DH has this annoying thing about examining the tread of his shoes in minute detail, so he'll stand in front of the cupboard, blocking anyone else from getting in there, staring and measuring how much his shoes have worn away. In addition, if there has been any post delivered while we've been out, he'll open and read that while still blocking access to the cupboard. Rather than just stand around like lemons, everyone else will just discard their own shoes and coats on the floor beside him and when he's finished the examination, he'll just put away his own stuff and leave everything else. Later we'll bicker about the fact that he thinks everyone should be responsible for putting away their own stuff and I think he should either stand aside to do his shoe examinations OR accept this means he needs to tidy up for everyone.

To make things worse, he'll often extend the shoe examination to all the discarded shoes - picking them up, having a good look around and the PUT THEM BACK ON THE FLOOR RATHER THAN IN THE BLOODY CUPBOARD. (and breathe).

Shouts from the kitchen,where is the so n so?
I cant find it, So up I get walking down the hall and all of a sudden I hear GOT IT. And he constantly leaves lids off things. But to be fare if thats all I have to moan about I`ve got it pretty good
I wonder what they find annoying about us ?.
Probably were still breathing hahahaha

Wanders off when we’re out shopping

Sets off from the car while I’m still paying for parking and locking it.

Keeps his phone on airplane mode until and unless he wants to make a call, so I then have to hunt the bugger down. But expects me to accessible on my mobile for when he’s locked himself out of the house.

Oh, and if you asked him the same question, he would say “she squeezes the toothpaste from the middle and leaves piles of stuff everywhere.”

All true, I do.

Doesn’t screw the lids back on bottles.

No idea why. We’re forever spilling things because of it.

At the moment he is walking around in new trousers that I know he will take on holiday

THEY. ARE. FRIGGING. RUSTLING

Clears his throat and blows his nose really loudly.
He has a cold at the moment so add coughing really loudly into it and I'm surprised I haven't buried him under the patio.

@Toohotandsticky I couldn’t cope with that! The shoe examinations that is, just reading that gave me the rage 😂

@Mintjulia mine does that!! I thought it was just him, it drives me utterly insane, I’m forever picking up bottles and the contents go flying everywhere. It’s beyond frustrating!

Not replacing the toilet roll. He has "his" toilet and it still annoys me. After pointing it out he replaced the toilet roll but just put it next to the sink instead of throwing it in the trash.

Another thing is brushing his teeth really close to the mirror that there was toothpaste splatter.

Doesn't do the recycling. He'll park small stuff (tins, cereal packets) beside the sink; bigger boxes go on the floor. Does he get round to taking them outside to the bin? Does he fuck. And if I actually ask him to, next time I take some recycling out, there are the big boxes, just crammed into the bin any which way and filling it up. So I then have to take them out, flatten them, and hey presto! Space!
I'm pretty certain he's trying to make such a bodge of it that I'll stop asking him. Sorry, pal - not going to happen.

And like other PP's, he'll also stack the dishes for me (how kind) - in a sink full of water. Oh, and it'll be whatever water was in the sink already - salad washing water, bleachy water, water I'm soaking the dog bowls in...Doesn't matter.

We have different toothpastes to solve the squeeze problem and how he puts the toothpaste directly in his mouth instead of on the brush.

Continuous yawning in the morning
Leaves teabags in the sink
Makes a snack but doesn’t wipe up crumbs
Eats coconut covered buns in the living room
Leaves toilet seat up
“Can’t function” without morning coffee
Doesn’t make the bed
Scrapes the kettle over our oak kitchen counters

Haha I love these and the pettier the better.

@pumpkinpie01 I mean you!

I'd forgotten about the wet towels left ON THE BANISTERS because he can't be bothered to put them back on the towel rail. I have explained that putting wet towels on gloss paint makes it go funny but to no avail! If it's not a towel, it is his (used) shirt for the day or coats if he has been out. Aarghhhh! Also going to the loo without closing the door - just why??

1. Leaves his wash bag/ toothbrush on the kitchen sink instead of putting it in the cabinet.

1. Leaves his dirty washing either on the bathroom floor or ON TOP of the washing basket rather than in it!

1. Fry's food and doesn't wipe down the stove when it's covered in grease!

1. Leaves ALL dog poo in the garden for me to pick up 😊

BUT..
He always makes the bed, works very hard, helps hoover and tidy ❤️

Says "it doesn't notice" instead of "you can't notice" and doesn't understand why it's wrong!!!

For example, if I have a small stain on my top and I ask if he can see it, he says "no, it doesn't notice." ARRGHHH

He also rolls around a lot in his sleep and it always goes: roll violently one way, then roll the other way on top of the sheet, then lie there like a dead weight on top of the sheet so I can't get it out from under him and end up with a tiny corner to sleep under.

Oh and he picks his beard so much that by the end of an hour long TV show, he'll have a veritable carpet on his chest and bald patches on his chin.

However, he is fabulous in practically every other way, does more housework than I do and takes charge of all the annoying life admin like insurance and bills that I absolutely hate.

Leaving the lid of the kitchen food waste caddy up every bloody time he puts something in it.