Inconsequential but HIGHLY irritating things your DH does

[itslikecakesbutitsnotcakes]

I’m not talking ‘fails to do any housework’ or ‘won’t parent his own kids’ but minor irritations that make you want to scream but you can’t because its so petty. For me

Refuses to use the automatic windscreen wiper. Instead he waits until he has no visibility and then manually flips the wiper on once. In heavy rain he’s doing it every couple of seconds. Just put the bloody auto wipers on!!

Unloads the dishwasher but leaves select things stacked up ‘near’ the cupboard or drawer they live in rather than putting them away. Apparently they are left there to ‘thoroughly dry’.

Rage!!!

Well they are only 'proven' to be extremely unhygienic if they are filthy dirty and you don't replace them often enough. Mine get washed very hot and replaced daily. Same as my dishcloths and face flannels. Nothing unhygienic about it, thank you. And if all you are doing with a tea towel is wiping over a newly washed piece of crockery or cookware to get rid of excess water, then where are the germs coming from, exacty?

But why bother with all that expensive laundry when they could just dry naturally anyway?

They are washable, you know.

🤣 at performance ironing.

He will leave tins on top of my microwave in the utility room rather than in the cupboard above. I am short and require a stool or chair to reach the top shelf of the cupboard where these items go. He is tall and doesn't even need to stretch. He also leaves his socks in a pile by the radiator in our bedroom, if he opened the bedroom door, the laundry cupboard door is just to the right and he could put them in the actual basket.

Because sometimes you need something immediately and don't want it sitting around for hours cluttering up the drainer just drying? You want to put it away. I have a dishwasher but for example my long stemmed wine glasses don't fit in it and a couple of other bits need washing up by hand.

Plus I always have two teatowels on the go. One that stays clean for occasional drying of things, and one which gets sticky because I use it to wipe my hands on when I'm cooking. They both go in a bucket by the washing machine at the end of the day or 2 days at a stretch, depending on how much they've been used, along with the dishcloth. I am very fastidious about that. I hate slimy, stinking dishcloths and manky damp tea towels.

🤣🤣

My DH has this obsessive habit of balling up his pairs of dirty socks before he puts them in the washing bin each night. When I ask him why, he says it's to help keep them in matching pairs so they don't get lost. I tell him it's pointless and actually quite annoying because need to stand there un-balling them all before I put them in the machine, so they get separated anyway. I still have to match them all up again once they are washed and dry. I've told him this hundreds of times over the years, but he just can't not do it. 😂

Other people yawning when you’re incredibly tired is so annoying! Not small involuntary yawns but those big yawn and stretch performance ones.

When you know the other person has slept more than you that’s murderous territory!

(NB - lighthearted)

Uses a beautiful bowl I commissioned from an artisan potter in Greece and had shipped home at great expense for the dog’s food, and puts it on the step down to the kitchen so I trip over it when I come in the front door. I’ve asked him to use the actual dog bowls and he says I’m being petty and he wants to make sure she’s eating enough. I have now hidden it…

I was very loved up. So was he. It took me years to really see the dynamic, as he is very affable, and sometimes caring. I also have a background of trauma, which I think made a lot of it feel more normal than it should.

I’m afraid this is where I’m very environmentally unfriendly and when I need to dry things, I use kitchen roll 😳

Usually I don’t empty the dryer for a while after it’s done so the stuff is properly
dry by then so it’s not an issue.

Yes to the windscreen wiper thing. It’s almost like it is going to cost him to put them on. Also a recent one in just the last couple of months. Finishing my sentences for me, pretty much always incorrectly. He even acknowledges and doesn’t know why he does it 😡

I am very unreasonable here, but I hate it when I am the driver and someone else says “let’s go”. As in, when it’s the agreed time to go anyway, or you’re both ready to go, at the door etc.

No, if I’m the driver, I say the “let’s go”.

[Nb if there’s no agreed time and it’s just a suggestion, they’d have to say something like “shall we go in a minute/ do you want to go now?” etc]

I will die on the hill of only the driver says let’s go!

We suffer the same related husband affliction. Solidarity

Mine has an unfailing ability to not only misunderstood what I said, but also reach the most bizarre take on it. I'm struggling to think of any example, now. I might say I spoke to our neighbour recently and instead of assuming I'd spoken to a one of our direct neighbours, he'd decide I meant someone who lived the other end of the town we lived in ten years ago. It's very, very annoying.

Apparently the windscreen wiper thing is an evolutionary male/ female thing.

Men have apparently evolved to see past / almost not see nearby objects, and instead see ones further away, and women to notice things close by more. Hence the raindrops in our close field of vision really annoy us!

Eats over the sink - get a friggin plate. Leaves crumbs in aforementioned sink.
Asks me when we are leaving if I have got x y and z despite not lifting a finger to get any before departure.
Eats /drinks food brews too hot then makes a too hot noise.
Starts a big job - ie cleaning the garage if we have people over..
Sweeping always sweeping but sweeps in a pile so I quote 'can see all he has swept'
Leaves golf clubs drying in a line in the hall like soldiers.. I am clumsy. It's like Domino Rally.
Time for a patch 🤣

Gets food from the fridge (eg sandwich ingredients) and proceeds to prepare said food. Whilst doing so, the fridge doors remain wide open- drives me mad!!
Another one is wasting water. He runs the tap while brushing his teeth. Why???

My children do this!

Or you call them for dinner at the time when dinner normally is, and often theyve just been through and seen you cooking dinner, or you’ve warned them it’s ready in a few mins so they can go to the loo/ do any faffing in advance,
and they say “what?”.

Like, what is it going to be that I’m calling you for when you’ve seen me cooking the dinner and it’s dinner time??

I think they do it to get an extra few seconds doing whatever they’re doing, mad as it seems.

Or when they don’t go to the loo or whatever at the “two / five minute warning” (whatever amount of time I give on that day) and then they still go after you’ve called them!! Which is annoying as I often want to go to the loo then.

Oh god, the keeping you waiting thing. Every single fucking time. It doesn't matter how long I take to get my act together, he will always somehow find a way to keep me standing around waiting for him. He's completely comfortable with wasting my time . Expects me to just sit around like an unused appliance until he's ready.

Oh god! People who won’t start getting ready til they see you standing at the door with coat and shoes on!

Throws everything randomly into the (chest) freezer, doesn't write their dates in the notebook and then grabs only the top and newest items to use.
i am planning to get an upright freezer asap.
And padlock it.

He interrupts me to say what he THINKS I was going to say. And he’s always wrong.

No jury would convict (image uploading…).