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?

Leaves cupboard doors and drawers open in the kitchen, hoards glasses and mugs on his desk, leaves socks everywhere

But the WORST that unreasonably infuriates me... He says 'washing machine' when he really means 'dishwasher'. Always, despite being constantly corrected. I don't know why it gets me so bad 😂

Omg, mine does that too!!!! Or he waits until I've put the bins out or whatever and says oh you should have asked me. Why? Why should I have to ask?

This has cheered me up!

He twiddles his hair when it needs a cut. Over exaggerates if he has to walk around me in the kitchen often with some sort of jaunty comment aghhh

He sneezes unreasonably loud.....

He holds wine in his mouth for about 10 seconds before he swallows it.

And when he blows e.g. dust off something, instead of blowing from his lungs, he puffs out his cheeks then just opens his mouth with a ‘pphh’ sound.

Gives me the absolute fucking rage every time.

Leaves cutlery in the washing up bowl

Leaves dirty water in the washing up bowl

Puts things in 'to soak' in the washing up bowl that don't need soaking (I'm looking at you, jug that only had boiling water in for two minutes. We live in a soft water area).

This is making me laugh SO MUCH.

DH does so many of these things! I really thought he was unique.

@Iamthewombat I can't stand "have you lost something?", the phrase has a certain superiority to it. I prefer "what are you looking for?".

Ooh another- my dh also holds his breath, awake and while asleep. Just sucks it in then forgets to breathe out apparently

Walks out of the room I’m in and then tells me something. He thinks I’m going deaf as, instead of shouting ‘What?’ at him, I just ignore him completely. If he has something to say he needs to say it before exiting the room!

Mine latest peeve is his attention seeking dressing routine. He has a penchant for jolly pants which I stoically ignore as “try hard”.
He now gets up and stays in pants for as long as possible. So he’ll put the lurid things on and walk around “looking” for his clothes,( only he is very tidy so they are right where he’s put them out the night before) asking me questions so I have to talk to him. But before he dresses he’ll strut to the bathroom in said pants, When I’m clearly ignoring him he’ll put socks on , then a top. Bit more walking round ...

Just bloody well get dressed like normal people ie one item after another in which ever order the clothes come.

Mine throws away my reminder-to-make-an-appointment notices. “I was tidying up!”
The worst thing? Dad used to do that to Mum. Drove her spare.

Oh I forgot. Something like:

Bulb needs changing. Goes to get one out of drawer
Decides to tidy drawer - empties draw on kitchen table
Finds something in drawer from the shed
Takes thing out to shed
Decides to tidy shed - empties shed into yard
Sees bikes need tyres pumping up
Pumps up bike tyres
Decides to go for bike ride.

Yard, table look like a bombsite. Bulb still not changed.

Walks round the bedroom when brushing teeth (with electric toothbrush). Reckons he saves time. So, at night, fills his water glass up in bathroom while brushing teeth, comes into bedroom puts glass down, all the while doing teeth and sounding like a big, buzzing, really irritating fly. Goes back in bathroom to finish. Comes to bed.
HOW is that SAVING TIME? He still has to come back from bathroom so could just bring water then!
Then he gets in bed and in fast asleep in minute flat and SNORES.

Oh the list is so long.

Muttering about what he’s doing as he’s doing it e.g getting work clothes out “yes I’ll have this shirt I think, what trousers, where are the blue ones...” etc.

Doing half a job e.g taking one bin bag out but not replacing it with a new one so I go to put something in the bin and there’s no bag.

Not writing things on the shopping list when we run out. Particularly annoying with things I always assume we have like milk.

When I’m picking him up from somewhere and he sees my car approach he sticks his thumb out which was amusing the first time but now it’s the 100th it infuriates me.

Gets underfoot when I’m tidying/cleaning thinking he’s ‘helping’.

When his runs out he will use my nice expensive shampoo/conditioner/bubble bath/facewash (that I use sparingly) and uses LOADS of it. And then acts wounded when I tell him off because we are ‘supposed to share things’.

Not putting loo roll down when he has a shit so if I’m in the next room I can hear all the plops.

Can hear him muttering now actually...

Does the dishes (as I do the cooking) and gets bored toward the end so there are always pots left and unwiped benches.

Takes something out of pantry, puts it back somewhere else instead of replacing it where he found it (does so with all the things he touches). So I spend minutes, I tell you, minutes looking for something that isn’t where it belongs.

He also used to stuff his candy/chocolate/ice cream wrappers down the side of the couch WTF?! But has now after 15 years learned that’s not where they belong

Yes, yes, telling you things when you are in a different room. Usually when I am near the cooker extractor good and he is lying on the sofa at the other end of the house watching Tour de France (on my cooking nights, this is; I don’t do all of it).

Also, on the rare occasions I get the telly to myself to watch something I want (eg Poldark) - I am out of the house for 11 hours a day minimum and he works from home so gets > 3 hours a day uninterrupted viewing time and yet when i’m back WE STILL HAVE TO WATCH STUFF HE LIKES AS WELL AS ME which is a small cross-section I can tell you - he keeps wandering in to tell me stuff, repeatedly, like an attention seeking kid. Then when I ostentatiously pause the tv for the ninth time he gets petulant!

@tequilasunrises oh we have the bag issue too! I used to say, ahem, the bag!! Now I just dump the garbage on the floor next to the bin for him to pick up when he remembers he didn’t put a bag in

When he sneezes, he does like... 14. And it's always when I need to hear something or just dropping off to sleep.

If he brings me something, like a cup of tea or some chocolate - which I am grateful for btw - he waits to put it my hand. Just stands there expectantly so I have to stop what I'm doing (put down my book or phone or whatever) and take it from him

JUST PUT IT ON THE FUCKING TABLE RIGHT THERE.

Thanks.

1st thing he does when gets back from work. Every day. Rearranges the dishwasher. Up to that point it is me that has stacked it - and in a sensible order, so it’s implied criticism.

One day I put a note in the dishwasher saying “Don’t you DARE rearrange the F**g dishwasher!”
He came in, went straight to dishwasher, saw the note, frowned, took it out and said “Does it bother you that much ?” I said “I put a b*y note in the dishwasher. What do YOU think?!”

About ten minutes later I glanced in the kitchen. He was rearranging the dishwasher.....

@KaleidoscopeEyes YES! The handing the cup of tea thing! All the time!

Makes his lunch (a salad) every morning and doesn’t clear away the knife/chopping board.

Also, puts recycling on the side in the kitchen about 2 feet away from the actual, dedicated recycling bin.

Mine has a pint glass of water going and leaves it around the house half full. It is SOOOOO annoying. For some reason I can't stand stagnant water around the house and this is included. There is no good reason for me to be this annoyed though so I don't say anything unless he asks why i'm pouring out his day old water.

Haven't read the replies yet but he does everything so incredibly slowly and precisely. Just sodding get on with it!!

And when using a serviette/napkin he manages to screw it up into a ball while using it to wipe his hands and mouth through the meal. Why?! One of our Dc does it too, must be hereditary.