Can not stand people who faff about!!!

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DH is driving me nuts

Trying to get the house cleaned as going away tomorrow, he spends time re arranging phones and wallet on sideboard, taking things out of drawers and putting them elsewhere. Looking for some inane personal item etc etc. He is the expert of looking really bust whilst actually not achieving very much.

Finally got everything done and need to go out shopping for a few bits. He's spent half an hour in the bath clipping his nails and carrying out various bath time rituals. Doesn't understand why I'm in "such a rush" but I just like to get things done!!!

Ung, I nearly stabbed someone with a baguette once.

Mr and Mrs deepinlove at the self checkout, she would get something out of the basket and hand it to him, they would stop with both their hands on what ever it was and gaze into each other's eyes before he scanned the item, turned to smile at her and then put it in the bag.

I don't mind if it is someone elderly or who is struggling to open a purse but it's the unnecessary delay.

@riotlady

My mum is whatever the opposite of a faffer is and I find it much worse! If there’s no deadline then why rush, she makes me speedwalk to the shops then attack the aisles like it’s a military operation.

Why waste time dawdling on a mundane job? Get in, get what you want, pay and get home. More time for nice activities.

I think faffers do it to feel important. They know you can't leave / do X without them, so they purposefully delay so they are 'in control' and feel important.

My ex friend plus always said I faffed, women faff, and then he would rant on about how amazingly non faffy he was, and most blokes, and that’s why there are arguments. We went on 4 holidays. I would get to his 10 mins before he said, ready to go. Cue shower, ironing etc - after an hour he’s ready and chivvying me out of the door as if it were I that wasted an hour, but wait again, let’s check passport 3 times, wallet 5 times, and so on. I asked why he’d given a time an hour too early once and apparently it was as I would be faffing so he made sure I’d be ready 🤔 I think he was so self absorbed he genuinely believed it was me holding things up, couldn’t possibly be the awesome him!

@KatherineJaneway my sentiments exactly- nothing better than getting home having done all the tasks for the day- then it's all about relaxing or doing something you enjoy.

Car faffing DH. Get in the car, kids strapped in, ready to go.....You would have thought - but no.
First postcode must be added to satnav even if we have been there twenty times before.
Then phone had to be plugged in and paired, or maybe Bluetoothed.... hmmm I don't know..... let's see.....

By now both kids are demanding to know why we aren't moving.
Do we have water.....where is it? What about snacks, apparently he can't drive without snacks, not even a ten minute drive.
Then the perfect podcast or playlist must be selected. Of course he can't just put the sodding radio on, it has to be a certain type of song to accompany his mood.......
....or maybe it could be the radio perhaps........
....no definitely music. Maybe this playlist instead though.

Actually that one isn't DS friendly so I need the other one, I think it's in Spotify or it may be in my music.

Hang on I may use Waze instead of Google Maps, I think it gets real time traffic updates (argh! So fucking what we are literally going 20 mins up the road)
Where's the water? I need a drink before I start and can you pass me a cereal bar....no you'll have to unwrap it for me can't you see I'm trying to put the postcode into Google Maps?!
Right, where are my sunglasses? No I don't like driving in those, the other ones.....I think they may be in the bedroom, I'll just go and get them.
This is the point where I finally loose my shit......Or the faffing has gone on for so long that I need the toilet and he has the temerity to ask why couldn't I have just gone before we left. I really don't know how I haven't deliberately shut his fingers in the car door by now!

Sounds exactly like my husband!!!!

Omg, my DH is a faffer. Does a lot but nothing if that makes sense. His idea of tidying is putting things into piles, so basically making piles of clutter look tidy. He has no concept of time whatsoever or how long it takes to do something. He will tell me he's cleaned the house but the dishes will be in the sink, hoover will be in the middle of the floor and washing will be on the table in the garden waiting to be hung out. He starts everything but finished nothing. When we go out as a family it's normal for me and the kids to wait in the car whilst he is still getting ready. Also usual is once he is in the car that he will have forgot something and will have to go back in. He gets it from his mother and our oldest DD is like her Dad. I have to say that apart from all his faffing be is a wonderful person, great husband and Dad

@waterjungle my eye is twitching just reading your post.

Oh yes I hate faffers.
DH is the worst. He does the holiday thing every time. About 2 hours before we are due to leave he will decide a task completely unrelated to the holiday packing is vital. Right then. Last time it was cleaning out the garage?! When questioned he gets very cross ‘well when are you going to do it? You should be pleased I’m cleaning out the garage’.
After years of him doing this and ruining the start of every holiday with an argument I expect it and ignore and take him out of the equation.

He also does the last minute shower when we’re going out. Or even if we have guests coming. Quite often they arrive and he’s in the shower. Rude and annoying.

My new perfume is called 'Fath de Fath'!

I love it! DH was disappointed there wasn't a men's version. He liked the idea of them doing a 'Fath Extreme!'

@Delatron, can sympathise with you on the holiday faffing. Without fail my DH will decide to clean our sink unit when we are about to go on holidays. I pack for me and 3 children, clean house, have passports, money, make lunch for plane etc and still have plenty of time. DH has to pack for himself and that's it. Two years ago we decided to get a taxi to the airport(usually drive) and all husband kept asking me was do you have passports, money, house keys etc, asked me numerous times. I had everything as I always do. Are you sure you have everything was all he kept asking. Twenty minutes into taxi ride he suddenly remembers he forgot his wallet which had his driving licence(needed licence to drive in Spain) his good watch and his wedding ring. Like wtf!!!! You had one job to get yourself ready. So we had to turn back, it was lashing rain in rush hour traffic on a Friday afternoon. I could have killed him.

[quote iswhois]@KatherineJaneway my sentiments exactly- nothing better than getting home having done all the tasks for the day- then it's all about relaxing or doing something you enjoy. [/quote]
Totally agree @iswhois

God I hate a faffer. Even at the playground when’s there’s a kid at the top of a slide faffing about,
Holding up everyone I want to shout GOOOOO or give them a little nudge down the slide!!

If I end up patioing my husband, this will be why.

Ah @IndieRo
I always say to DH ‘you have one job, basically throw some pants in a bag’
Whilst I do everything else.
Once he spent an hour making a very important playlist for the holiday. Obviously had to be done that crucial hour before we leave....