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 .....

My DH is massively into spring cleaning and doing up his van, hes done nothing around the house and he keeps bringing oily shit into our home and then acting all surprised when the toddler tries to eat it.
Hes been at it for 4 weeks now! Will be the shiniest bloody van in the world at this rate

I'm gona add to my one, it's now transpired 'D'H has gone 3 hours away fro work and taken DS's teething medicine with him just incase he needed it along with 2 other toothache remedies for himself so I'm now up at 1.30am with a very distressed toddler and no teething liquids for him! Good job he isnt here or I might stab him.

The husband writing a song for the NHS is only narrowly beaten by the dad hammering a Boris themed scarecrow into the lawn.

Surely I am not the only person thinking that driving the gagged and bound"D"H to the Boris Johnscrow in order to perform for YouTube is an essential journey?

DH's grandparents keep trying to get us to go to their house to show them DD at a distance. They saw her the week before lockdown so not as if they haven't seen her, we send regular WhatsApp pictures and videos and have offered to videocall (they know how to videocall as they have relatives who live far away and they regularly do this) bear in mind neither my mum or MIL have seen DD since lockdown apart from on videocall because, you know, lockdown. This outing would involve an unnecessary 10 minute drive (not on the way to any shops etc.) It is probably irrational to be so angry but I have followed the guidelines all the way along not making any extra journeys, my Mum has been picking up shopping when they're going etc to save me leaving the house etc. We've said no repeatedly and now they're saying they'll come to us, they've said they're coming tomorrow despite our protestations. Just bloody videocall, its so unnecessary!

His mood seems determined on what the weather is doing

Aside from the usual thing of DF being in denial about how bad his hearing is and having shouty telephone conversations at times when he knows I'm trying to sleep or record on mic for work...

I had an accident two weeks ago when I was out with the dog, took a chunk out of my hand and possibly sprained both toes and wrecked my knees. I had been planning to stop at our local shop on the way back for teabags but I had to call DF to pick me and the dog up in the car because I couldn't walk. He stopped at the shop and asked me to go in because he doesn't like paying for things with a card and that's all I had on me. The fact that I had blood all over me didn't seem to perturb him.

Boris Johnscrow

DH and 24 yr old ADULT dss phoning each other when they are both in the house seperated by one wall, so you can hear what they are saying to each other! Oh and the same dss deciding that rather than clean his filthy room, he'll just open a window, which then means his bedroom door (which he doesn't manage to close) bangs all night and all day!!!!! Which is apparently not a problem because he sleeps through it!!!!!!

Use my new lovely fluffy throw, as some sort of smoke catcher from his BBQ! I mean, wtf, why, and how and also....why?

Everyone in the house keeps sayin (in a shit American accent) "carol fucking baskin" I'm going to explode

Put the chocolate in the fridge. Fucking barbaric.

On sunny days he's got a lovely tan, while I went to work.
On rainy days he has lovely cosy days in front of Netflix, while I go to work. In both instances he's been toooooo busy to do housework or home schooling.

I've realised he's a tv hog - I can't watch anything of my choosing, so I piss off upstairs...then he trails behind me within five minutes complaining he's on his own and lonely.

Oh god @kissmewherethesundontshine I feel your pain. I don't actually know who the fuck Carole Baskin is but I fucking know she "killed her husband, whacked him" and that my DC can't be convinced it didn't happen. ("Happen" also in strange American accent, I thought they were saying "helfen" in German so it was even more incomprehensible)

Also, they keep sending me TikTok videos (usually about Carole fucking Baskin) I can't even understand instagram FFS so stop sending me stuff where 8 million videos pop up on my screen and I DON'T KNOW WHY. STOP.

Also (this is cathartic) stop fucking texting on the family WhatsApp group at 1am waking me up when you're in the same fucking room. Just agree a fucking rota for Netflix and if you can't, discuss it in low voices instead of sending each other text messages in capitals when you're right next to each other! And why are you copying your mother in for adjudication!? I can't believe I am finding myself saying "snitches get stitches" to people who are nearly proper official grown ups...

God. "Discuss it in low voices". I have turned into my mother.

Tbf discussing in low voices is good advice the constant messaging people who live in your bloody house is unnecessary

My Dd sends me gifs througout the day to express her moods

Today ?

Breathe !!

MiL writing several sympathy craving posts on facebook about how much she is missing her grandchildren. Cue lots of friends sending virtual hugs and commenting on how much of a gap there must be in her life.

In normal circumstances she sees them once a month for about 2 hours...

My mum keeps going to town to go to the bank to withdraw money she is driving me up the wall with it I phoned her to see what they wanted from the supermarket but it was fine because she got a few bits from Iceland because she had missed the bus

I hide an emergency mars bar in a tampax box 😁

I get on really well with my in laws but today is the 4th day in a row I have FaceTimed MIL (at DD1's request) which I have no problem doing. But she insists on telling me how tired I look, then texts me after to tell me I look shattered! What does she expect!!! Dd1 gets up at 5:30, dd2 (8 months) is going through what I think is a sleep regression and wakes 3-4 times a night and needs me to help settle her back to sleep (She doesn't want DH). DH will get up with them but I have to be logged on by 8am to work from home so even if he takes them at 6am I only get an hour before I need to get up, shower, eat breakfast etc. I don't need reminding about how shit I look 😂

PIL like to do whole family WhatsApp video calls. There are about 15 of us on the calls. Everyone talks over each other, and PIL seem only to be interested in talking, not listening. Please make it stop.

Realising just how much time every day my son spends touching his penis. I’ve barked “leave it alone!” At him so many times I just have to make a vague noise in his direction and he holds his hands up and says “I’m not touching my willy!”

Buying loads of crisps, biscuits, cake and other unhealthy stuff because we're having to shop in person, rather than online (as we aren't vulnerable), and the person doing the shopping sees all the new products they don't usually see online.

I'm on a diet and it's torture. The cupboards are overflowing and I can't eat most of it.

I'm annoyed at myself today.
I'm walking because I can't go to the gym (Lost a fair chunk of muscle mass in the past few weeks 😭)
During todays walk I popped to the shops because we're running out of formula for ds and need some staple cupboard stuff (I was already annoyed because I'm not due to go food shopping until Tuesday)
I spent almost £50, most of that on snacky foods, biscuits, sweets, crisps and alcohol so not needed! And it probably won't last the weekend with dh and older DC as they're both in the habit of going in the kitchen and opening cupboards looking for food.