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!!

Another lazy man conditioned to expect women to do his thinking and doing for him.

We have a family calendar on the wall. DD is meticulous about putting on her shifts and college days. DP asks ' is DD w orking tomorrow ' with ridiculous regularity. Just look at the effing calendar! You are standing 2 feet away from it, whereas I am in the other room.

Is he just thinking out loud? Like filling the silence? 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Echio
Dh does this. Who’s that at the door?
I don’t bloody know dh because, like you, I can’t see through walls. Drives me potty.

Yes mine. Drives me bonkers but I pretty much ignore it now and say I don't know or I'm as new here as you etc

Worse ime is the dh who makes up answers. Once for a joke asked dh why sheep didn't shrink in the rain like wool jumpers do in the wash... He actually started making up some ludicrous response. I told him to stfu as I was cringing!

oh god, I have one of these too🙄

I also ask cooking instructions whilst getting the bag/box back out the bin and reading them. Because my husband might know the answer before I find it, or he'd be wrong because I'd still check as I'm already doing the action to find the answer myself 😂 but it is just chit chat, harmless really, if we all just found our own answers out the world would be very boring and lonely place.

I am very aware I do it though. I accept people for who they are and expect people to just accept this is also apart of how I am.

Ridiculous answers are the way to go - have some fun dreaming them up so they're on the tip of your tongue when needed - things like "the 17th Sunday in July" or "Henry VIII and all 6 wives" etc

Sounds a bit like myself to be honest. I could be watching a film, and halfway through still have no clue who anybody is😁

Mine always does it on holiday. I think because I am normally the one who researches accommodation and days out, it means I automatically know absolutely everything about this place we've never been before - where the shop is, where the bus stop is, which bus we should catch, how to find the cashpoint etc etc. Bleeding Oracle is right.

My husbands favourite one that I do is 'where is the... got it' no one ever knows what it is I'm actually looking for because I always find it before I finish the sentence. He's even taught his mom to ignore me on those occasions because she'd start asking what to help but he'd say just give her 5 minutes she'll find it 😂 if I actually need help finding something I say 'have you seen the, whatever it is' I didn't even know I had different ways of asking things based on whether I actually needed help or not 😂

‘which brand of milk do they use for their lattes?’

I’m not quite saying LTB but I couldn’t be married to a man who would ask that question

I also ask cooking instructions whilst getting the bag/box back out the bin and reading them. Because my husband might know the answer before I find it, or he'd be wrong because I'd still check as I'm already doing the action to find the answer myself 😂 but it is just chit chat, harmless really, if we all just found our own answers out the world would be very boring and lonely place.

Not exactly harmless if it’s annoying the person you’re doing it to.

DH does a lot of this and I have cone to the conclusion that it’s due to a lack of internal thought process.
He is wondering aloud, not actually expecting me to answer.

Some people don't appear to have an internal thinking space and operate on the basis of "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" It would drive me nuts to live with someone like that.

Mine does this. Recent classics include: did I have a shower yesterday? Should I put this in the post box? Pizza and salad for dinner, shall I just put the pizza in the oven and make a salad? Shall I go and get dressed? How do you boil potatoes? Does the baby need clothes?

I just stare blankly and walk off. While muttering “twat” under my breath.

He's just musing aloud.
You can do it, too. "Does John realise how annoying that habit is?"

My actual reply would always just be “Why would I know that?”

But just telling him random wrong answers constantly is much more fun.

“It was outside”
”Cravendale”
”Alison Fairbanks”
”42 minutes”

Get the questions in first?

Or just politely ask if he realises you're unlikely to know.

To be fair I wouldn't know what brand milk they'd use if I went their daily. Never thought to ask, I don't care.

So about that patio you were planning to lay ... @QuestionAfterQuestion .....

Why does the silence need to be filled? I was enjoying the silence, I was daydreaming in the silence and now some fool is filling it with stupid fucking questions.

I think some people just say their internal monologue out loud

I think some of it may be just filling the space with noise and giving voice to his stream of consciousness, but that would also incredibly irritate me. Silence is fine.