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'm convinced my DP has ADHD.
I often reply - are you actually asking me or just thinking aloud?

“Google and is your friend”

My DP’s best line when visiting somewhere new is
”Where shall we park?”
My response
“I don’t know, I’ve never been here either”

Arrgghh……

I usually say hang on till I get my crystal ball followed by a stare

This would seriously give me the ick. He wants you to do his thinking for him. Those are the kind of moronic questions my children might ask.

My DH has been doing the same recently and it has been driving me crackers! It's laziness and not being bothered to think and do things themselves. Last Sunday he asked me to set today at Wimbledon to record. The remote was in front of him, told him to do it himself.

I know someone, who many years ago, was so sick of coming up with dinner ideas. She asked “ what would you like for dinner?”. The answer, from someone who couldn’t be bothered to think of anything, was “ a shit and sugar sandwich”.
Readers, you know what happened next…..

Same here!
We will be going to dinner at a friends house, "what are we eating?" "What time will we be eating?" Loads of others to! I sympathise with you op. My constant reply
"I don't know" doesn't seem to stop it.

Sorry, was that Dear Partner or Dear Child.....

I had so much of this over lockdown from DP and DC (more tolerable from DC), that I announced I was no longer the family brain, and they were to engage thinking before asking me. See also looking for things...
I agree with many others, it's pure outsourcing of thinking about mundane crap and reserving their own mental bandwidth for what they would prefer to think about. A huge indicator of male privilege.

Unfortunately you appear to be in a relationship with a fuckwit.

Oh this really winds me up with mine and often undermines all his good parts because it's so annoying.

He not only asks rubbish questions, but also does not answer questions with the information needed. 'What time are you going to the shops' 'I'm going to pick up milk and bread' OK BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED IS IT.

Asking me every few minutes what I'm doing, when I'm doing the same activity, because he wants to interact but can't be bothered to start an actual conversation. I am super happy to talk if we are talking about something, but asking me what I'm doing over and over again is not a bloody conversation.

Or, from another room in the house 'do you still need this?' 'shall I put this away if you're done with it?' 'shall I grab this to put in the car?' Well wtf is it? Can you name this mysterious item so I have a crumb of context please?

I had one of these. He’s now remarried and still tries it! We have a complicated summer schedule for the DC regarding who is where and when. His DW made a very helpful and extremely comprehensive Google doc and shared it with us both for which I am very grateful. Still he stood in my hallway and said “what day are you dropping the kids off?” I just said “it’s all on the Google doc!” and I saw a familiar weary look on DW’s face…

He asked me again - on the next drop off - when I was picking them up and I said the same thing. He also asks me every single time what time DD’s school finishes, and I don’t even know because I use wraparound every day due to working full time!

Oh yes, mine does this too.

Another of his tricks is to call, say, from the bedroom while I’m in the kitchen: “shall I put this over here?”.

I DON’T KNOW, I CAN NEITHER SEE THROUGH WALLS NOR READ YOUR FUCKING MIND CAN I?!

Let me introduce you to the Spongey System. With a bit of practice, you'll manage it. @copyright.

1. Make a circle with your left hand, fingertips to thumb.
2. Get pointy finger ready with right hand.
3. Push pointy finger into circle
4. Touch nose with either pointy finger.

Shorthand for feck nose. Your welcome. Please don't ask how I came up with this method. I feels your pain.

I have one like this and he loves to ask me where his effing stuff is!!! “Where is my bag?” “Have you seen my keys?” “Have you seen that piece of paper from 2003?” Honestly. I’ve never asked him where anything of mine is because know where my stuff is!!!!!! He’s similar as your model with films, new places, etc. irritating AF.

Mine this morning was … is it a shorts or a jeans kind of the day. We have been sitting outside eating breakfast and chatting together for the last few hours. I can feel the same weather as u can feel. Told him shorts and he looked at me as if I was mad. Then why ask in the first place then.

he did used to be worse. How many fish fingers , r the boys hungry. But I got so fed up I actually moaned at him about it. Had to do it a few times and to be fair to him he has got better.

but I don’t know the weather as I’m not a weather man. U have the same app and the same phone as me. Good thing he is sex on legs

This sort of stuff doesn't bother me. But then again, we do have times where the conversation goes

'Are you talking to me or the cat?'

'Cat, but he doesn't know the answer'.

'What did you ask him?'

'Whether he'd seen my phone'

'Have you checked underneath him? You know he tells lies'.

'Oh yeah. Thank you'.

'Are you thanking me or the cat?'

'Cat, of course'.

Dh has asked me the heating instructions before. My response was ‘I’m drinking I can’t see the instructions from here!’

Drinking? Driving! 😂 I was driving.

It's just laziness, me and my DP don't live too together. He will text me questions, that I have no idea the answer off and would have to google. I just think in the time it took him to type it, he could have google it!

I now say google it to piss him off, apparently I'm better at googling then him!

Yep feel your pain. Driving somewhere neither have been to. Shall I go left or right? I'm not as patient as you though and we e had some cracking arguments over the years! The kids are grown up now but still laugh at the fights we've had on road trips.

I say, ‘I don’t know, I don’t work here’ at least a couple of times a week.

It’s so so lazy.

Over dinner tonight: ‘what’s the weather going to be like tomorrow?’
Do I look like Michael fucking Fish?!

get an Alexa
everything he asks at home, just repeat to Alexa
he can't be so dim that he won't realise you're taking the piss

Surely you don't expect him to move something a mm to one side to see something behind it, very unreasonable.

It’s not just men, my mum does it to me. Endless questions I couldn’t possibly know the answer to. If I point that out she always just says well she wasn’t actually asking me, so yes I think infuriatingly they just voice everything in their head and you have to somehow know which things are actually aimed at you - how I haven’t figured out! You are DEFINITELY not unreasonable in my book; it drives me insane!