What trivial things really irritate you about your nearest and dearest?

[Hathor]

Forget the big stuff - what really gets up your nose at a trivial level in your household? Rant on....

Dh leaves the car in gear when parked on the flat. I always forget and it jumps forward when I start the engine.

Dc always wait til I am in the bath before needing to come down for a long smelly sit on the loo.

The dog waits til I am wearing something smart for a change then slobbers over me.

Grrrr

If someone is sitting snoring next to me on the sofa when I am trying to mnet in peace. (also the footie is on loudly, if I turn it down/off the aforementioned person wakes up and gets grumpy!)

the soaking. and the washing up in completley crazy order (glasses after a greasy pan, cutlery left at the bottom of the washing up bowl and then ignored - along with the bowl of cold-dirty-greasy water itself.... oh damn, you got me started)

Demanding to watch something on TV (knowing I'm not that keen) and then promptly falling asleep!

Obsessive cleanliness and I mean obsessive, i.e. picking bits up off the carpet!

ooooh, where to start, where to start

the main thing, that drives me potty and they all do it... they are completely incapable of just sitting on a chair or settee, they have to throw themselves on it, messing up all the throws/cushions. When they stand up, they manage to drag said throws off with them, leaving them trailing across the living room for me to pick up and try and "make" the settee again!

and EVERY SINGLE BLOODY ONE OF THEM DOES IT!!!!!

ds seems to know when I want quiet and chooses that moment to put his winnie the pooh cd on a max volume.

the dog gets on my bed in the morning, which is fine, but she always lies on my feet so that I can't move and then pretends she doesn't understand why I am shouting at her.

Not picking up the bathmat.
Not putting clothes in washing pile.

DD is really messy. Leaves a trail of clothes/shoes/bags behind her when going into the house. What is even MORE annoying is that she gets it from me

Dh bites his nails - all I can hear of an evening on the sofa is "chomp, slurp, chomp". Grrrr!!

Cleaning up in the kitchen after I've cooked but not finishing the job so I have to do it anyway

Never refilling the loo roll holder (the fairies do that, don't they?)

Soggy towels left on the bed

grrrr

Dh was a drummer, and still constantly has to beat out a rhythm with his hands, usually on the arms of the sofa. This makes the sofa judder, and drives me mad.
Also, if he can't sleep at night he does the same with his feet.
Wish he could get it out of his system.

girlandboy - dp is also a drummer. He does that. If he really likes what he is listening to (in his head half the time!) he "drums" on me. tres annoying!

Oh yes, cleaning the loo. Do they not see/smell it?

DH has a really annoying way of blowing his nose. One long blow followed by six short ones. Without fail. Drives me mad!

He's by imaginary! Really ps me off.

Squonk, nice to meet a fellow sufferer. Dh is out at work at the moment, so I am enjoying a peaceful non-juddery lounge on the sofa. Aaaaahhhhh Bliss

Separating socks - one goes into the laundry basket and one is posted down behind it, so that socks never go through the washing in pairs.

The insistence of DH in "soaking" dishes in water which then gets cold.
He willw ash the dishes but leave roasting tins, dishes that have ahd lasagne etc in "to soak" which translates as "you can do tehm in the morning.
His F***G rugby stuff. he comes in, leaves the bag in the kitchen diner, takes the washing out around Tuesday,leaves the bag in the kitchen/dining room, puts the stuff for the next weekend in it and leaves it in the kitchen. Same with his RAF rucksack, his gym bag etc.
Then has the fecking cheek to tell me I'm untidy

My biggest bugbear though is the fact that every single morning he wakes up lying on the mattress, with the sheet and mattress cover in a twisted heap bewteen us or halfway down the bed.

Oh yes - not emptying pockets before putting trousers in laundry basket. Horrible job emptying male trouser pockets (dh and dc) of grungy detritus.

brill thread. mine does nearly all these things, he also opens cupboard and wardrobe doors and drawers doesnt shut them again, that sounds a bit pathetic but walking into the bedroom to find 2 wardrobe doors open (1 for shirt and 1 for suit) and 2 drawers (socks & underpants) really bugs me. I'be tried leaving them open but of course it doesnt bother him, he prob thinks 'how convenient' when he gets ready the next day!

Dhs ridiculously loud sneezing which scares the hell out of anyone standing nearby.

Dh's drying technique after bathing - does a very disturbing "holding towel both ends and wiggling" kind of a dance whilst singing a little "drying" song to himself (I'll spare you! further details)

Dh farting in bed and taking great delight in wafting the duvet at me.

Dh encouraging the dc to tie tomato stalks to bits of cotton and drag them across the floor to terrify their arachnophobic mother.

Dc thinking dh is the best thing since sliced bread and that mummy a spoilsport!

I love him really.......

Dh doing the dishes/tidying the kithchen but not wiping the crumbs off the worktops.

making toast and leaving the butter/jam/ cutlery out.

Leaving cupboard doors open.

Leaving crisp packets on the floor. (dh)

Taking ds's Nintendo ds into the toilet with him and staying there for about an hour.

Fucking off to the toilet after tea time (see above) and leaving me with the dishes.

I could go on!

DH always says he is ready to leave when we are off out somewhere then without fail will suddenly remember something he has to do just as me and the DSs are all loaded in the car. Quite often it is have a poo.
Winds me up something rotten.

Ds1 is starting to pick up on it too. The other day we were waiting in the car and he said 'wheres daddy?' i huffed and puffed about Daddy holding us up and he said 'Daddy poo poo?' i was still laughing when DH emerged from the house LOL

gracemargaret, my dh sneezes super loudly too, with a real "Wah-HOOOO!" noise and scares the be-jaysus out of me every single time.

(i think he thinks his nose will blow off if he stifles his sneeze.)

I think the sneezes get louder as they get older. Why?

dripping a teabag all over the worktop and then leaving it on the corner of the sink, Why can he put it in the bin straight away???

taking his clothes off and leaving them in a pile by the bedroom door, so i trip over them in the morning, whats wrong with putting them in the wash basket???

getting down the table before we all have finished, so now ds2 is trying to do it to, so im having to make a stand and make him sit there till we all have finished. (im convinced it's because his parents never ate at a table, they all sat there with trays on the setee infront of the tv, which i cant stand)

ditto the wet towels on the bed, or setee if he has gone downstairs with it on.

god i could go on and on and on....