ridiculous topics for marital rows

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OK, so I caught myself getting cross at hubby when on family holiday for having fruit and fibre for breakfast as he was 'obviously' trying to engineer more 'me time' on the loo away from the kids.

Please, please tell me I'm not the only one to have picked THE most ludicrous fight? Other examples please....or am I a lone witch?...

Panic Room.

Stupid film looked shit, it was shit and Jodie Foster irritates me. I would never have suggested we go and see it. Ever.

DP insists I was the one who chose it.

I fucking did not, and every time he wants to wind me up he brings it up

Tesco Finest peas vs. ordinary Tesco peas.

I argue we're on a budget so deal with having normal peas (I wasn't even forcing the Value stuff). He argues that he can totally taste the difference and doesn't like any other peas but Tesco Finest.

2002 that film came out - 1 argument - 12 years.

These are so funny, I can't think of one of ours now, but the legendary one in our family is when DSis and BIL bought a tent. Put it up, took DN2 camping overnight locally for a trial run.

After a night of very little sleep, had to get large tent back into impossibly small bag. Three HOURS later, and lots of swearing, name calling and tears, no one was talking in anyone but they finally managed it, got back in to car to come home. BIL turns to DSis and says

"where are the car keys?"

Answer: In the little zip pocket thingy inside the tent.

They never used it again.

Massive row over what we would spend a lottery won on. Massive. I cried.

Will you marry me, Tigga? (I think I may have proposed before actually).

I accused dh of cheating with the bride at the wedding g he was best man at!?
Then the bridesmaid ....
I was 9 months pregnant ...

One baked bean left in the sink after washing and clearing up sparked fury on an unprecedented scale... I left the bean by accident, DH went apeshit, I went more apeshit about the fact he felt it was necessary to go apeshit and really needed to maintain some sense of perspective.

Getting tetchy just thinking back to it...

Some of these are great by the way

YY to IKEA
We once had a row about the necessity of drawer organisers in ikea. I bought them anyway and we've used them ever since [vindicated emoticon]

Dishwashers do cause battles.

In our house the smuggery of "Well where did you leave it lying around?" when an item is missing is another red rag.

We squabble but rarely fight - the last shouting/screaming fight was over our new bathroom. He suddently decided I should choose the suite and tiles etc when I had no desire, inclination to do so on my own but he was adamant. To this day, I still don't know why we couldn't just look/choose together as we do with anything else in the house.

We had an ALMIGHTY row in Ikea about 15 years ago about whether to try for a baby

I hesitated in saying 'yes' when he asked if I'd give him a kidney if he ever needed it. Who'd have thought a nano-second pause could cause WW3?

I love this thread; it's making me feel very much more normal.

We have fancy-dress-making rage and baggage-reclaim-hall rage. Both much easier to manage now we recognise them as completely unreasonable flash points.

We've had a few IKEA "near misses". We now tend to " joke " (through gritted teeth) about the fact that people split up/murder their partners when assembling IKEA furniture, but there is always a slight sense of "who knows" bubbling under. Plus we have an established routine which seems to work - I take instructions and sort parts, DH brings the tools and the brawn and mostly these days it passes without too much shouting strangling each other.

Once had a row with stbxh about the correct way to paint a door - I said up & down (obviously) he said side to side. It went on for days dickhead

We rarely fight. We bicker constantly though.
Our biggest fight ever is over toast. He cuts the DCs toast into squares and I do triangles. This is because DD won't eat the crusts to it's easier for her to eat (and I don't have to clean as much jam/butter of her face)

My triangle cutting toast ways are indulgent and will result in our kids being verruca salt type children. His square ways are a form of military rule and he is a despot.

DH and I had a humdinger about whether Snape's treatment of Harry was justified.

We shouted at each other to the once-in-a-lifetime tourist attraction, ignored each other all the way round it, fought some more in the car, made up and had to sneak back in because we couldn't afford to pay twice.

I daren't tell him that perhaps I now agree Harry was indeed a bit of a cocky wee shite. It's taken me 13 years to come to that conclusion though.

Lots of autistic people don't like being called a person with autism because they feel that being autistic is so intrinsically part of who they are. It's a different way of processing with lots of positives. They don't want to separate themselves from what makes them who they are as if it's something to be ashamed of.

chuck I'd say both of you were right, and both of you were wrong. I find best coverage is achieved by going up-and-down, side-to-side and finish off with crissy-crossy.

Too late now for smug marital guidance though.

You may chuck the paint tin over me

Arse. That was supposed to be on the autism awareness thread.

These are making me laugh hard!

DH is from East London. If he can't see something within half a second it's lost and he starts to panic. I end up ranting.

His pronunciation makes me giggle. I have no idea if I am going to Malta or Morta. Could be a building site.

He cannot work the telly. I tell him and show him and write it down... And he cannot work it.

Last night he called me at work to ask. Cue me ranting down the phone at him. Every time I spoke a syllable he cut me off to rant.. It's not working... Then 3 seconds later. Oh it is!!!

We must be an odd couple, DH and I never ever row over flat packs, in fact I think its only the only time we are best friends.

We had a row about how many different types of cheese it is acceptable to have in the fridge. I said as many types as you need to make the different foods we eat i.e. 7 is reasonable - him 3-4 maximum - ended up on AIBU - mumsnet jury found unanimously in my favour.

We then argued about how much time spend on mumsnet.... Sigh

My ex assumed I must be sleeping wiyh someone else everytime I went toilet (there was me him our ds and the cat in the house) who I was actually supposed to be doing anything with I don't know. Maybe it was a ghost?

Fatowl - the keys in the tent pocket made me wheeze with laughter!!

LaurieFairyCake - when you say you have rowed with both husbands in IKEA, do you mean consecutive or concurrent husbands?

When ds3 was 3 days old, I had a complete meltdown, because the midwife had called round and dh had sent her away because I was asleep. I didn't need to see her, I had no particular concerns or worries - but him sending her away led to huge, snotty tears on my part, and utter bafflement on his.

We have had many epic rows over the years, and I am sure many were about truly ridiculous things (probably things he did, of course), but I can't remember any right now.