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What does your husband do that you just find so embarrassing? (Light hearted)

98 replies

SecretSnake · 29/07/2022 17:42

Had to run away from him today slapping watermelons in Sainsburys. It’s too much. Holds it right up to his ear and gives them a good slap until he finds the right one.

literally married the white version of my dad.

He also very loudly shouted “DO I KNOW YOU?!” When I have him a little hug in the queue… I hate being in public with him 🥲

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LHReturns · 29/07/2022 22:48

CharlotteOH · 29/07/2022 22:46

Mine is fairly introverted and had a very antisocial upbringing, as a result he just can’t be bothered to talk to people he doesn’t work with. It’s so embarrassing. His resting face is ‘glare mode’. I can see others get uncomfortable around him and I wish so much he’d just learn a bit of small talk!! He was really cold to a friendly delivery guy the other day, it came across so rude and snobby 🙈

Mine is the same. I use so much energy trying to make up for his total inability to make other people feel good.

everylittlehelp5 · 29/07/2022 22:52

whatthehelldowecare · 29/07/2022 17:47

Walks about with his jeans half way down his ass like a teenager despite being an otherwise respectable adult man

This

BigFatLiar · 29/07/2022 22:57

He has his 'gardening' clothes and his 'car' clothes. He has had the same clothes for as long as I can remember. He's put on a lot of weight when he was ill but they're still loose. Some are literally held together with duck tape. We had a delivery of manure at the allotment and his jacket was under it, he dug it out brushed it off and continued to wear it. I always say he's a cross between Compo and Wesley Pegden from Last of the Summer Wine but he makes Compo look smart. He actually turned up at the office I was working at to collect me in his garden clothes, me looking smart in my business suit talking to some senior staff and he wanders over looking like a scarecrow and gave me a hug.

Yamyam13 · 29/07/2022 22:58

Jack2507 · 29/07/2022 20:35

Mine talks much louder than he realises. So when he thinks he's whispering just to me the whole room can actually hear what he's saying. And it's usually judging someone/commenting on their appearance etc in a public place like the supermarket queue or restaurant. I have to tell him to be quiet whilst I'm dying of embarrassment.

Mine too. And if i tell him to lower his voice he gets so annoyed!

maddiemookins16mum · 29/07/2022 23:18

Shouts very loudly when England score a goal at any football match. I’m dreading Sunday.

Somethingsnappy · 29/07/2022 23:22

@VeronicaBeccabunga your post made me laugh so much...

SweatyChamoisPad · 29/07/2022 23:48

Once mine is comfortable with someone, he’ll fart. He doesn’t save them up or try to force one out, but if he needs to do it, he’ll just let it go. I just roll my eyes and say “better out than in” to try to cover up the shame by proxy.

Fifipop185 · 29/07/2022 23:54

He has been known to (playfully) wrestle me to the floor in clothes shops in front of people if he's bored. I know the look in his eye so can stop him in his tracks. He will also pick up any vacuum packed meat in the supermarket and slap it like he's smacking a backside with a wicked grin on his face saying that'll be me soon if I don't get a move on. You'd never believe he was a somber, professional man. Grin

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:00

Anyone else single but reading this for pure entertainment purposes?!

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:01

Libre2 · 29/07/2022 19:47

Changes his accent depending on who he is with. He’s relatively well spoken but suddenly with my dad (who he adores) he suddenly starts dropping h’s. My dad is very West Country.

This is something my Autistic daughter does

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:05

@VeronicaBeccabunga I wouldn't call this lighthearted, I'd call that exceptionally rude on his part

LaPerduta · 30/07/2022 00:05

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:00

Anyone else single but reading this for pure entertainment purposes?!

Yep!

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:09

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 29/07/2022 21:56

Mine does the performative sneezing too.
He’s quite keen on nature, so camera on every walk. We were taking dog on an evening poo walk and he was lying face down in the churchyard taking pics of an unusual plant.(it wasn’t, it was herb bloody Robert) Some kids from school saw us, luckily they were older sensible ones, but as I was studiously pretending I wasn’t with him, they were going “Mrs ofwit is your husband ok?”

I found that really hard to follow? What happened?

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:12

CharlotteOH · 29/07/2022 22:46

Mine is fairly introverted and had a very antisocial upbringing, as a result he just can’t be bothered to talk to people he doesn’t work with. It’s so embarrassing. His resting face is ‘glare mode’. I can see others get uncomfortable around him and I wish so much he’d just learn a bit of small talk!! He was really cold to a friendly delivery guy the other day, it came across so rude and snobby 🙈

He sounds thrillingly sexy Confused

Usernameisgone · 30/07/2022 00:14

He sings and dances to music whatever shop we are in!
We live abroad and despite him not speaking a word of the language he puts on a stupid accent when he is speaking to someone else! I always ask him why! He knows he's doing it! But can't help it 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

Cocopogo · 30/07/2022 00:20

He has no social skills whatsoever so when we are with friends he just drones on about stuff. He doesn’t seem to notice that he talks 90% of the time. Anyone else would think I’d best shut up now and let others speak, no not him and it’s all poncey stuff to try and look knowledgeable when he’s the dumbest person in the room.

Libre2 · 30/07/2022 00:23

Wilkolampshade · 29/07/2022 20:09

@Singinginthesnow @Libre2 Don't feel too bad about the mimicking accent thing, it's a normal human response to find common ground and also a sign of musicality....

That is very interesting- DH is a music teacher.

SunscreenCentral · 30/07/2022 00:32

ThePumpkinPatch · 30/07/2022 00:00

Anyone else single but reading this for pure entertainment purposes?!

100%

Recognising the bliss of my life right now

kittenkipping · 30/07/2022 00:38

My husband greets people on the phone with "Hi! Hello!" As though he's either forgotten he's already greeted (hi!) or he's testing which will be your personal favourite greet (offering a hi! And a hello! Just in case!) I HATE it and it makes him sound so poncy and ludicrous.

I'm absolutely fascinated by the thread- half of which I find funny the other horrifying- some I consider ltb territory . Fascinating that we all have such different scales of acceptable / embarrassing behaviour

Whoactuallythinksthat · 30/07/2022 00:40

My DH does pretty much all of the things mentioned in the pps. He also goes to sleep at dinner parties. He’ll just vanish and someone will find him asleep on the sofa in another room. He’s not even old.

TheLazyToad · 30/07/2022 00:47

This was an adored male relative rather than my DH, and was a fully-fledged adult but, oh my word, I cringed if I was ever out in public with him.

One of the things he did regularly was when walking past any store security cameras, he would stand and dance, wave and generally be a bit of a loon. And then pretend to walk away, but quickly run back to the camera, jump up at it, and shout “boo” very loudly. I tended to carry on walking, hoping that no-one would realise we were together, but he would then call my name really loudly, “LazyToad, don’t leave me, don’t leave me!” in a wailing voice.

369thegoosedrankvino · 30/07/2022 00:48

When we are in restaurants and the waiter brings him the card machine, he puts it upto his ear and says hello, pretending it's a phone.

It's not funny at all, it's embarrassing, the waiter/s find it ridiculous but fake laugh to be polite and he think they find it funny so continues to do every time.

Bluedabadeeba · 30/07/2022 04:29

MomwasCasual · 29/07/2022 20:54

He sneezes loudly. Like, stupidly loudly.

He'll sneeze, and in the corner of my eye I'll see a woman leap a foot in the air in shock, and an elderly man start staggering and clutching his left arm.

He says he can't help it, but FFS he CAN. If he were hiding under the floorboards from the Nazis in WW2 would he sneeze that loudly? NO I would wager he wouldn't. He would find a way to sneeze quietly.

Can you tell it fucks me right off when he sneezes really loudly?

Love him dearly though Grin

This one made me snort-laugh!

SecretSnake · 30/07/2022 09:03

I see my husband in so many of these. God I love him 🥹

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justsaythanks · 30/07/2022 09:10

So much.
But some of these are far worse.
I dare say I do loads too