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What little things does your man do that really irritate you?

243 replies

Tex111 · 08/01/2007 14:47

My list includes:

Putting dirty nappies on TOP of the nappy pail rather than inside it.

Hanging his coat on the door handle of the coat closet rather than inside it.

Coming home from work, putting his very expensive suit jacket on the back of a kitchen dining chair then going to the bedroom to undress. Inevitably the jacket gets something smeared on it by sticky little fingers but he never seems to learn.

Forgetting to take his wet swim towel out of his gym bag then using one of our good bath towels the next time he goes for a swim leaving the mouldy gym towel for me to deal with.

Dumping his gym bag in the hall outside the cupboard that I cleared out especially for his gym bag.

When there are only a few dirty dishes he just shoves them in on top of the already clean dishes in the dishwasher and runs the whole lot again, thereby getting the dirty dishes somewhat clean and the clean dishes somewhat dirty.

Anyone else driven to the brink of insanity by little things like this??

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throckenholt · 10/01/2007 10:34

never empties the washing up water
never cleans the cooker top - regardless of huge spills on it
can't turn radios off - but can turn them on
washes lights with darks and turns everything grey
doesn't shake washing before hanging it up so everything dries with masses of creases
uses whatever comes to hand when he is doing someting - regardless of its actual purpose or ownership, or whether it will get destroyed in the process
can turn his ears off and just not hear things (very envious of that ability).

I am sure he would have much worse complaints about me - but I am not going to give him the chance

throckenholt · 10/01/2007 10:38

oh - and uses the last of something and doesn't bother telling me - so I don't get any more when I go shopping and then I swear and curse when I want ot use it and it is not there !

princessmel · 10/01/2007 10:40

throckenholt- my dh doesn't shake out the washing either. I forgot that one!

Indith · 10/01/2007 10:45

Oh I forgot about washing! Mine s not so much not shaking it though as just generally hanging it up in clumps......

themoon66 · 10/01/2007 10:46

Oooh.. the scourer thing Am still fuming because my brand new stainless steel shiny cooker got scoured the first week we got it.

tinkerbellie · 10/01/2007 10:46

ooh i forgot the listening thing, he can sit and just stare at the telly and the kids will be like daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy? i will have to shout him will you pay attention to them
or later on will be talking away to him and half way through he will turn to me and go what? were you talking to me? you need to get my attention first!

princessmel · 10/01/2007 10:47

My mum, who thinks that dh can do no wrong and is a saint, because my dad was quite useless for years- her fault as she didn't train him to help in the house , would say 'think yourself lucky he does the washing at all.

12yeargap · 10/01/2007 10:48

Asks me where his glasses are all the time -
I DON'T KNOW!

Spends half his life standing in the garden, smoking.

Promises to give up smoking every couple of months, but is puffing away within 15 minutes.

Won't go to bed when he is tired and cranky, just scurries around doing household chores in a martyred fashion, which makes me feel I have to do housework too, although I'm exhausted and want to go to bed, and it could all be done in the morning...

I'm the one who drops clothes on the floor/ leaves milk out / doesn't put things in the bin, though, and he's pretty tolerant of that so can't complain too much.

tinkerbellie · 10/01/2007 10:50

oh i know if dh actually cooks the tea or anything she will look at me as if to say you should be doing that

and his mum if he's doing any house work when she phones she will make a point of asking what i am doing ( am pretty sure his hands won't dissolve when they get mwet)

jura · 10/01/2007 11:02

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breadgirl · 10/01/2007 11:08

When we go out for dinner, we order our drinks .. sometime during my meal i reach for my drink to find dh has drunk it all .. i always ask him to order another drink for himself, but he still drinks mine!

He opens packets of biscuits, large packets of crisps, the bread, etc and leaves them open sitting there to go stale .. or till i deal with it

nailpolish · 10/01/2007 11:09

calls both dresses and skirts "dresses"

cant seem to see the difference

therefore confusing both out little dd's

oranges · 10/01/2007 11:13

I read this thread feeling smug about my dh, then came across Jura's dh not claiming expenses. Snap. I don't ask any more or I weep.

ipanemagirl · 10/01/2007 11:25

smokes and has been promising to give up for about 7 years. Says now that every time I nag about it he'll smoke for another month... nice

Also inhaling while eating and drinking like condemned man.
Shameful noise.

On occasion lifting plate to drink juices copied immediately by ds.

themoon66 · 10/01/2007 11:45

Expenses.... why is it ok for the company to sit on £3,000 of OUR money, just coz he doesn't enjoy filling in the forms??

princessmel · 10/01/2007 12:03

Nailpolish my dh does something similar to the dress/skirt thing.
He calls the childrens outfits ...uniforms!! OMG.

ipanemagirl · 10/01/2007 12:05

wants to lose weight but won't give up anything fattening and kids himself that the things he likes are perfectly good for him. If I make food that is healthy and he doesn't like it his facial expression is that of someone being poisoned.
If I try to replace butter with anything else he virtually calls amnesty international.

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princessmel · 10/01/2007 12:29

My dh always does the eating choc and crisps at the 'wrong' time. And he tries to hide doing it behind the kichen cupboard door.
I always say the children are not stupid, they know whats he's doing.

FloatingOnTheMed · 10/01/2007 12:33

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nailpolish · 10/01/2007 12:35

LOL @ "uniforms"

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nailpolish · 10/01/2007 12:41

i say pants too

knickers is an annoying and stupid word

fizzbuzz · 10/01/2007 13:12

Buying me a copy of "Womens Weekly" and "People's Friend" when I was ill FFS!

Leaving his disgusting socks under sofa/bed/computer/kitchen table, so you just happen upon them...urgh....

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