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?

Mine says "wardrome" instead of wardrobe.

His mother says it the same way she also says 'mate' in this over top cockney butcher voice when she means to say meat. We are from Yorkshire so the mind boggles 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Six months after asking repeatedly for something to be done, you do it yourself, then DH comes over all incredulous: "But I was gonna do that.... why didn't you say ?"

give me strength

@Iamthewombat the working from home eating everything drives me mad too! Claims to be on a diet but hoovers up everything naughty!! Then uses whatever I had planned for tea and eats for lunch so that I come home from work and have nothing to make a family meal with !!!

Sneezes. Walks around when on phone. 😡

He used to make 'hedgehog's' out of toe nail cuttings in a piece of BluTac.

I...what?

Mine is that if I start doing the washing up, he will come running up saying "Leave that, I'll do it later." But he won't do it later. I will do it later, at a far less convenient time, than the time I was originally going to do it.

Being helpful in unloading dishwasher then leaving 10% on the side for me to put away the next morning. Or loading them on all onto the dish rack on top of the items that were already on the dish rack.

When my DH says yes or no they'll both just merge into a nnnnnyeeeee and I can't tell the difference and it irritates the life out of me

@iamthewombat... Yes to ostentatious not-sleeping. Huffiing and puffing and rolling around all night. LIE STILL. Then you might get to sleep.

Also always bloody well trapping a bit of the contents of a drawer when shutting it. Every drawer has a bit of tea towel, shirt, sock, wrapping paper, receipt, charger wire poking out of it.

Leaves the envelopes on the breakfast bar after opening the post!

Eats very slowly! If the TV is on then it will take him about an hour to eat his meal as he gets distracted so much by what he’s watching. I often have to pause it and tell him to get on with his food so it doesn’t go stone cold

When he pours irn bru dregs down the plughole but leaves some in my sink which he doesn't rinse and it leaves a big orange stain 😟

When we go out for coffee he waits until the exact moment that I am paying to ask 'where do you want to sit' I have told him many many times I can't turn round and look for a table at that point, but he still asks. Every single time.

Falling asleep on the sofa when we're watching TV.

I have no idea why it winds me up so much but if we're just sitting watching something he closes his eyes and falls asleep.
He'll either wake up and need to know what happened but can't tell me where he was when he actually fell asleep.
Or I'll suggest we go to bed and he'll say no, it's too early for bed then proceed to fall back asleep on the sofa!!

It's so pretty it's unreal but it just irks me like crazy!

My DH is incapable of giving a straight answer to a perfectly normal and reasonable question.

Examples -
Me: What time do you think you'll be home?
DH: Well, it won't be before twelve..

Me: Do you want to walk the dog or shall I take him out?
DH: I took him to the park on Saturday.

Me: Do those shorts need washing?
DH: I wore them last Tuesday...

I do pull him up on it and we have a laugh but my god it's bloody irritating!

Petty* not pretty

NRTFT but this title got me thinking about the film 'War of the Roses' when the couple are talking about what winds them up about each other and Kathleen Turner's character says to Michael Douglas:

"your breathing."

If he does the washing up he only does the easy stuff, never the pans or baking trays. He stacks it up on the drying rack like a game of Jenga (never dries it). When even he can't fit anymore on the toppling mountain he just leaves the job. Yes, just leaves the sink full of water and what didn't get washed. So I have to put my hand in manky cold washing up water to pull the plug. Empty the sink of unwashed but wet stuff. Carefully attempt to dismantle the mountain and dry it all then put it away. And it never occurs to him to wipe the worktops or sweep the floor. But hey, he did the washing up 🏆

Wow, are you married to my dh?

Dh can't pronounce the 'th' sound, he says it as 'f'.

He always leaves drawers open then just walk off. When I point out he's left the drawer open he's always got some long winded explanation as to why he's left the drawer open. Just close the fucking drawer!!!

My DH sings along to the radio very loudly early in the morning and he gets the words wrong!

I'm not a morning person so the winds me up almost every single day

Eats his food like a toddler from least favourite item on his plate to most favourite. It drives me up the feckin wall. Especially if it's something like stew, where he'll pick out all the meat bits and put them on the side of his plate so he can eat them last. I'm getting rage just thinking about it.

I am LOVING this thread!! I feel the rage for each and every one of you and I haven't even finished reading it yet!

For my DH, as for many of you, it the feckin' washing up!
He never cleans the outside of anything, glasses, saucepans, underside of plates if they've been stacked or anything where the food hasn't directly been. He does this really annoying squeeze of the sponge over the outside as if that's going to clean it!! I have told him him countless times, but he just doesn't get it at all.

And obvs, he always leaves something 'to soak' doesn't matter what we've cooked, something always needs 'to soak'!

Takes his socks off in the bed and leaves them there

Talks during movies/tv shows. Gives me the rage SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

Dirty dishes left in the sink instead of the (empty) dishwasher. IT'S RIGHT THERE!!!

Never rinses the sink or empties out the food catcher plug thing after he washes up. So the next person (i.e. me) who uses the sink gets a tide mark of dried greasy suds and bits of food to deal with, when all he needed to do was rinse and wipe it down.

My husband (only of one year) frequently does the laundry instead of me (he works less hours, and is less lazy). This means I often come home to a small pile of clean laundry on my bedside table, which will take me literally one minute to put away.

He doesn’t know this, and I am being very very unreasonable - but I hate it!

I don’t like feeling that he has “had” to do my stuff. I have talked to him and said I don’t want that to breed resentment, and he thinks I’m off my head, and doesn’t care.

But also, when I see that little pile I feel like I have to put it away. Whereas, when it’s on top of the machine or on the dryer, it’s out of sight so I can get to it in my own damn time. I feel like I’m being forced into the (one minute of) housework instead of choosing when I do it.

I am so far beyond reasonable, that reasonable is a dot

He’s a good man, and I’m awful!