DP won’t stop asking ridiculous questions

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Please tell me my DP isn’t the only one who does this. Misery loves company and all that.

We went to a new cafe today. Neither of us have been there and it’s a place he picked (I’ve never heard of it). Walked in and he asked me where the toilet was. Well I don’t know but I looked around and saw a sign so I guess it’s there! Bonus questions I was asked include the likes of ‘what’s good here?’ and ‘which brand of milk do they use for their lattes?’.

We make a trip to the cinema. 10 minutes into the film he asks me who that character is. I don’t know but I expect all will be revealed soon enough!

He stands in the kitchen, heating instructions are right there on the packet he’s holding. ‘How long do we heat this up for?’

His macbook had an os update. ‘How long does it take to install?’

I’ve been biting my tongue and responding with ‘I don’t know’ instead of something snarkier but it’s relentless!!

I reply with “half past two on a Tuesday.” Ask a stupid question, you’ll get that stupid reply each time.

It’s annoying enough when silly questions are asked because the person is lazy (where’s the toilet) or thinks you’re smarter than them (who’s that character), but the total lack of logic behind ‘what brand of milk do they use?’ in a place neither of you have set foot in before would drive me crackers. I’d have to sit him down and ask how the hell he thought I’d be able to answer. And whether he’d even considered that before blurting it out.

I’m obviously less patients than other posters!

Mine is getting increasingly like this and honestly some days I am absolutely baffled as to where his brain is.

I have a horse, I go riding quite a bit, the other day I was in my riding gear and he looked at me really confused and said "are you going riding?". I was like no, I'm going swimming (what do you think I am doing FFS).

I can't remember every thing at the moment but he asked me such a stupid question the other day I was actually quite shocked - he is normally intelligent.

This would drive me up the f--ing wall. The lack of mental initiative. Huge turn off. Having to do someone's thinking for them.

Is he actually taking to you or himself. I talk to myself at home. More so in the kitchen. Not when I'm out though 😅

sounds fucking infuriating

The manual for my model was pre-digital. I once answered, “Second door on the left,” having misheard a question. For years I’ve been teased about this but now I play upon the gaffe. No matter the subject of the enquiry, this is my immediate retort. 😉

😂

Is your name Alexa, @QuestionAfterQuestion ?

You know, sometimes people are just trying to make conversation or have a connection.

Of course we can all google for anything now, but maybe "Gee, how long should we heat this for?" is a clumsy way of attempting camaraderie or chitchat.

My sister shoots down every conversational opening or musing aloud such as "hmm, I wonder what that bird is.." or "We could try making some cheese bread; any ideas?" with "Google is your friend" as she continues to stare at her phone and her various WhatsApp groups.

Now she is wondering why I haven't visited this summer. Maybe because it takes her three days to pull away from her phone and make eye contact, and the sarcastic "Google it" remarks.

Just some food for thought. People generally don't stand for being treated like a nuisance or irritant for long.

My husband does this and it drives me up the fucking wall. He'll sit there with a phone in his hand, a clock on the wall and an alexa in earshot 'what's the time?'. I ignore it now.

He cooks two nights a week when I'm at work and we do the deathly boring meal plan every week. He decides what he wants to cook, I order it. Each of those mornings he will ask me 'what am I cooking for dinner tonight?'. My preferred answer is now 'whatever the fuck you want'.

Brain drain.

Oh, God OP, I think I'm a bit like your DP! I can have a tendency to ask daft questions like that... and I absolutely know I get it from my Mum who does exactly the same.

In my defence, at least I'm aware of it and try to police myself from doing it! I think it can sometimes be an anxiety thing when my Mum's concerned (and possibly for me, too, on occasion), but mainly I think it's habit and learned behaviour.

I have one of those.
I sometimes get so many questions and the children have started copying him too, I have shouted, "Can everyone stop asking me questions". Not my finest moment by sometimes I reach a question limit.
I go to bed early on ocassion to get a break from the relentless questions. When I have asked why he does it, his response is that he is only making conversation and he gets offended.
We are going on holiday soon, and I just know the "what date are we going, what time is this and that, where is my...." will start.
To preempt this, I have shared a calendar with his phone. Going to try using that, we will see!

Making a connection/conversation by asking where the toilet is while I’m reading the menu when he could just lift his head and have a look around for a sign pointing to it…?

“Oh my gosh. What a conundrum. However will you work it out?”

This would drive me insane. Does he ask stupid Q’s during sex 🤣🤣🤣 I expect not!! I’d be tempted to ask some though to get my own back. “Do you think the streetlights go off soon?” “Do you think the shed is locked?” Etc etc. I couldn’t live like this!!

Dh doesn't do this too much, thankfully, but my young adult children do sometimes.

When the question is too daft I have been known to clutch my temples and say, "Hold on, let me find out using the superpowers I received when I got caught out in that radioactive meteor shower!!", make a face like I'm having a stroke then stop and just carry on with whatever I was doing without further comment.

For an adult I'd just give a wrong answer every time

Good luck with the calendar! I once did something similar with DP to minimal success but fingers crossed that you’ll have better luck!

I do this 😂 - when I'm asking where the toilets are, I'm asking for help in finding them not expecting my partner to actually know where they are.

With films I have a tendency to ask a question that if I'd have waited a split second longer I'd have had the answer. My husband used to get really annoyed and so did my dad when I watched films with him but we find it funny now, my husband actually doesn't answer me or he says let's wait 2 minutes and we start laughing.

It's not that I'm asking expecting an actual answer but more find out what you're thinking about it. I've gotten better over the years but occasionally I'm asking a question before my brain has had time to think about what it is I'm asking, usually when I'm really into a film I ask annoying questions. My husband occasionally says 'how am I supposed to know' if I ask about a plot or something. Also sometimes I feel like I've missed something rather than it hasn't been revealed yet. I've learnt to rephrase those questions to 'do we know this person yet?' Or 'have we seen why this is yet?' So I know to wait or not. Anyway - good luck, it's his personality so maybe he'll adjust but you'll also have to start seeing the funny side or your drive yourself insane.

🤣🤣🤣 that's so the opposite of what this is.

He's a man baby who would give me the ick.

OMG I am WITH YOU OP! But this time with my dear dear mother, who I love more than anyone else in the world. But her constant ridiculous questions that either she does know herself or is equally well placed to find out drive me bonkers.

My two regular favourites are

1. both sitting on the sofa with the same non-existent view. 'Who's that arriving up the driveway?'
2. Asking for the time while on her MacBook, swiftly ALWAYS followed by 'goodness it's later than I thought!!

There's no changing it. I usually reply with 'I don't know, what IS the time??' or something quite snarky, which varying levels of lighthearted joking to genuine aggravation depending on how I'm feeling!

I can top that. Not only does my useless husband ask questions that I can't reasonably expect to know the answer to...but he also gets arsey if I say "I don't know". Beyond infuriating and not remotely endearing.

yes, I know, yes I'm trying to, no it's not that easy to just leave

Urgh my husband can be like this. Which baffles me because he's so intelligent!

Like last night he said "I'll cook dinner tonight babe"
GOOD HUSBAND right? Next words were...
"What have we got in?" Whilst stood next to the fridge, freezer and cupboards.

Oh fuck off I'll just do it myself 🫣 😤