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DH making a racket in the car

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CoronaMona · 08/03/2020 11:24

I can’t stand noise and get stressed out with loud or repetitive noises especially if I’m in a confined space. Our dog barks in the car and it drives me insane but obviously I know she’s a dog and isn’t doing it to be a pain. I just have to try and shut it out.

When she does this however DH has started making loud, high pitched peacock noises. It drives me fucking crazy and of course winds the dog up more. I tell him to stop and he just continues as if he can’t hear me. I ended up proper screaming at him yesterday because the barking and the peacock noises was literally making me feel like my head was going to explode.

I don’t know what to do. I can’t not travel with him and he’s just not listening to me about this yet normally he’s a lovely man, no abuse ... no other issues.

I’m actually worried I might flip and end up hitting him. I’m not a violent person at all but the state it gets me into makes me lose my head completely. He thinks it’s funny. I’m not fucking laughing. I’m annoyed. He could stop this.

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pigsDOfly · 08/03/2020 19:25

Well, OP hasn't come back so perhaps she'd decided to send her H to a peacock sanctuary, where no doubt he'd fit right in, who knows.

Just as puzzling to me are some of the responses on here implying that the OP is unreasonable for not wanting someone making peacock noises in a confined space and stressing out an already barking dog.

Have these people never heard a peacock?

If this is genuine Hmm then the H is clearly a knob. Couldn't love someone who thought it funny to wind up a distressed dog.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 09/03/2020 00:37

Ah what a fucker!!
I'd stop the car and tell him to either shut up or get out.

My DH is a random noise maker - it's like he just can't be silent. If he's not humming, or singing snatches of song (badly and repetitively) then he's tapping his fingers, or making noises like you'd hear from someone else's Walkman (Yes I'm old). But at least we don't have a dog that would kick off as well!!

Has anything else changed within your marriage, that he's started doing this? Is he TRYING to upset you, because he clearly is managing it and not attempting to stop!

Fucking nightmare, I feel for you.

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