What’s the most irritating thing a family member has done during lockdown?

[MadameBee]

DH organised to have the internet upgraded yesterday, I was a bit apprehensive about it as I am totally reliant on the WiFi atm in order to carry on working. DH assured me it would be fine with minimal interruptions.

Mid conference call (Skype) the phone goes dead and all systems down.

Internet guy had asked if he can cut the phone line and DH told him to go ahead .....

@lyralalala you win. They sound fucking horrendous. How you aren’t sending passive aggressive replies correcting their nonsense I do not know, but well done, because that would be stopping to their pretty awful level.

All this makes my DH’s transgressions look mild. He used the last half bottle of my Cava in coq au vin. It was delicious but I was somewhat bitter.

@lyralalala woooah that’s crazy, no wonder she’s come to live with you, it sounds like she needs the support! Just let those Facebook messages roll off your back, entitled idiots will be entitled idiots no matter what you do.

"Dear" husband, carried on breathing. That's been pretty irritating so far.

@lyralalala they sound like my sibling who told me a few years ago that I should stop using our Mum for childcare. Their reasoning was that she had my DC far more often than she had theirs. The fact I was a single parent working full time and paying her, vs them having 1 working parent and one sahp was apparently irrelevant.

We have one laptop between 3 ‘homeschooled’ children.
Dd 18, ds1 12 and ds2 10. Dd is nocturnal, and will saunter down anytime in the afternoon moaning about everybody using the laptop, so I hurry them up and then she doesn’t bloody use it.
Today was particularly agonising with ds1, and dd wanted the laptop, I was a bit short, nothing awful,
she came up and sort of hissed in my ear ‘ Well we all know whose education is the most important in this house don't we?’

And of course she never used it. Of course.

Love reading these. Mine have been surprisingly non annoying.

RickOSHay introduce a booking system - they all have to say what time they want it for. If they don't start using it, the second person gets to have it, and so on.

@mineofuselessinformation
Very good idea.

I'm ashamed to say it's me.

A few days I went to the grocery store that sells Branston Pickle (I'm in the US so it's unusual). I considered buying more but thought we probably had enough. And my trolley was getting heavy.

Yesterday DH said the low point of the lockdown has arrived for him - we're out of Branston.

Mil lives with us. Sil has taken to phoning her constantly. She always used to ring twice daily, but this is something else now.

Every morning she rings mil repeatedly until she answers. It used to alternate between the house phone and mobile, but I told her I wouldn't be waking mil up. So now it's the sound of mils vibrating phone that wakes us up. If sil is up early, she phones early. This morning was 6.30am.

Mil then has the phone on speaker as she gets up and dressed, so we all hear sil drone on about absolutely nothing.

She complains she doesn't know when the school will be open, there are no deliveries from tesco, what her neighbours are doing. Mil just makes noises of agreement until she can get off the phone.

Before lunch there'll be another call. She's rung the school and they said they still don't know when everyone will be back. Still no tesco slots. Next door went for a bike ride and so on.

Afternoon, she managed to get a delivery slot. She did the shop whilst on the phone so we all know what she's buying.

She phoned to tell mil what she was eating for dinner.

She has been on the phone for 5 hrs today. DC can't actually have a conversation with their nan as sil asks what everyone is saying, so it's all repeated.

Driving me fucking mad.

DS closes the Venetian blind in the bathroom over the frosted window EVERY TIME HE USES THE LOO in case the neighbours have gathered in our garden in a huddle yo watch him piss, so it’s pitch black in there when you go in.

Today, DD ate an apple next to me. For 40 minutes

OMG, DH did this today. I thought I was going to go MAD.

@Waffles80 I posted “She lives here” on every one until they blocked me

@PorpentiaScamander They sound very similar!

Not putting their toddlers to bed and letting them run riot and make lots of noise during grown up evening time zoom calls

I lost my job so DH has taken over MY study fo WFH, with my beautiful office chair. I’ve started my next uni module now and I’m stuck at the dining table with the kids on a dining chair getting a sore back and a sore arm from no surface to support my arm while writing which matches my sore thumb (from RA i think) that I can’t bend around my pen to write properly. Grumble, grumble.

Trying to wfh, very difficult- OH is in the main downstairs room. (I should add he is STBX and since before lockdown):-
He coughs when anxious/stressed so coughs a lot at his desk, repeatedly, anything between every 15-30 seconds. Not ill, just a habit;
Talks overly loudly - is proper "haughty" - on phone/conference calls etc - he loves the sound of his own voice & everyone needs to hear his business. Gets worse the more he drinks (he drinks at his desk);
Narrates what he is doing all the time and is incapable of being quiet; must be making a noise always (attention seeking I think);
Vents loudly about emails, work etc and shouts at screen replies to people.
He wanders past me working & reads my work over my shoulder, always trying to see whats on my screen.

I have de-camped my home office elsewhere in the home as far away as possible!

My dsis(I do love her really) has started Skyping me regularly. Ok, but she’s in Australia, calls me at 7.30am and I get “oh you still in bed/dressing gown?”. And whatever her tablet is it is always pixelated and I can’t see her.

DH - existing

Sorry if this is TMI but.....

DH’s lockdown outfit of choice is thermal long johns (he’s always cold). This is OK in itself but he wears them commando and they have a front opening so he’s walking about with his willie flapping out all the time...

He’s also decided that he doesn’t need to be putting his dentures (8 teeth) in his mouth....not even when he eats soup, oranges, crackers .

Sometimes I just have to go upstairs and remind myself that this time will eventually pass..

he wears them commando and they have a front opening so he’s walking about with his willie flapping out all the time...

I'm sorry but that's hilarious 😂😂😂

That one cheered me up :) :)

Sister allowing her only just 17 year old to get pregnant.
Huge back story, let’s just say that I am beyond fucking furious.

My gran (almost 90) has spent the last 5 weeks complaining. About everything. She can't go out, she can't do this, she has no freedom etc. Nowhere is open. As if she is the single only person in the entire world who can't leave the house. Seems to not realise that I have 2 DC under the age of 6 to keep entertained (read: alive). She has a cat.

But doesn't want to catch CV

Then gets in a car with a relative who is a delivery driver and is fairly close contact with dozens of people each day ....... wait for it...... Because "it's better than getting on the bus"

I'm sure dying is even less fun than the bloody bus gran. But fill your boots.

I get a beauty box delivered with mainly skincare etc. Today DH has decided to tell me he has also been trying the bits out in the bathroom and has now gone to work unknowingly with graduated tanner on his face. Dickhead.