It's his job to put the laundry on. Normally this gets done at night when the electric is cheaper. Last night he forgot and only remembered when I asked. He then wanted to put it on first thing because it's a good drying day.
Our adult daughter is staying with us.
When the cycle was finished this morning I put in the laundry basket and moved to the back door to hang stuff out.. I normally do this, because I'm a lot quicker. He likes to arrange everything in a particular order which takes twice as long, so this is 'my job' and I always do it, unless it's a particularly busy day when I have to leave early.
This morning he was sitting at the kitchen table talking to our daughter and as I came near he said, 'Can I help?'
I said, 'No I'm fine.'
He said, 'No, Let me at the least open the back door.'
'No, really I don't need help.'
'But it's nice to help people.'
He then jumped up and started faffing about opening the back door - which didn't need unlocking - getting the bag with the pegs in, bringing it over to me while I was standing there with the heavy laundry basket in my hand. I felt he was basically in the way, interrupting my routine. and insisting on performing helpfulness in front of our daughter.
There was also this vague implication that he was the helpful one, and I was not so he needed to demonstrate/model what helpful behaviour was.
He often behaves in this slightly odd/unnatural way when she is staying and I can't work out what's going on/why he does it. It irritates me.