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Most annoying thing your DP does

121 replies

Qwertyasdfgz · 20/10/2022 17:11

What’s your pet peeve against your DP?

Mine is that whenever he hoovers he will just leave cobwebs or that he’ll ‘do’ the kitchen and not wipe any of the surfaces and leaves everything that doesn’t belong in the kitchen in the kitchen😂

OP posts:
BubbleSort · 20/10/2022 21:47

dementedma · 20/10/2022 21:26

He continues to exist

Yes.

WHAT!! What is it now ?! I'm opening fish fingers can't you see ?!
You come in here, walking on the floor - breathing the air like it's yours -talking and talking, and I'm doing something !!
Look they've fallen on the floor, are you happy now ?! Everytime I try to do something for myself, you carbonise and shit on my dreams ...

You're just like your whole family !! Why do I even dare to think I could dream, I could imagine, I could hope ? !!!

As you were.

ellieboolou · 20/10/2022 21:50

disneydatknee · 20/10/2022 21:13

His constant "hovering" drives me nuts. He will just stand in the middle of the room to chat or watch TV. Either sit down or go away!

God this is exactly like my husband, he'll say his going for a bath, 10 minutes later he'll still be standing in the middle of the room watching something on his phone or TV, or he will ask if I want a cup of tea, boil the kettle then sit down for 5 minutes or stare out the window, then has to re boil kettle. Drives me nuts

ellieboolou · 20/10/2022 21:54

Oh and will wash up after dinner but ALWAYS leaves the pots & pans, every fucking time. I have to say "pans" really loud, he will say yeah i know I'll do them in a minute they are just soaking - still soaking in the sodding morning 🤬🤬🤬

PieonaBarm · 20/10/2022 21:57

Cleans the kitchen so that it's absolutely immaculate after tea but doesn't wipe the gas hob down. Doesn't forget, just hates doing it.

As soon as I turn the hairdryer/cooker hood/mixer/any noisy appliance on will leave the room/go upstairs and start trying to have a conversation with me.

Does this awful guttural throat clearing thing either in the middle of the night or when he wakes up. It's awful and quite regularly will do it right next to my ear.

lovelypidgeon · 20/10/2022 21:57

Mine is pretty useful in most respects but totally shit when it comes to getting ready for holiday. We both agree that we don't want to be packing in a rush and shattered before we go away so at least a week before we travel he will have put clothes etc in his suitcase and will claim that everything is ready other than last minute toiletries etc. The night before we travel he will 'discover' that some of the clothes he's packed don't fit, some are entirely unsuitable for the climate, hardly any make a sensible outfit and he hasn't got something pretty vital (eg. swimwear/sunglasses etc). He will then stay up late downloading films/books etc on to his tablet and tablets for the DC for inflight entertainment. Then the morning of the flight will go panic clothes shopping (not easy as our nearest town with decent shops is almost an hour away) so ends up basically shoving carrier bags of new clothes in to a case as we are loading up the car to go to the airport. When he unpacks be invariably finds that the new clothes are not what he really needed and in his haste he has forgotten something vital (all his underwear one year). Every year he vows that he will not make the same mistake again. I have even suggested that he'd be better off just taking an empty suitcase and buying his clothes when we get there.

nobodysdaughter · 20/10/2022 21:58

Will clean and "do the pots", but doesn't tidy or put anything away!

Blowyourowntrumpet · 20/10/2022 22:00

Leaves used teaspoons next to the kettle. Never gets rid of the cardboard tubes from used toilet rolls. Slurps his tea.

Livingonjuice · 20/10/2022 22:05

Over loads the washing machine so stuff doesn't smell nice or clean properly
Then dumps on floor or asks me to put on airer
Empties airer by flinging everything onto the dining table
Never scrapes a plate or rinses off residue and wonders why the dishwasher doesn't clean stuff on "his" loads
I could go on. It's not a happy time

Daisydoo99 · 20/10/2022 22:06

I don’t know why but this infuriated me reading it!!!!! Haha

jellybe · 20/10/2022 22:13

Bananalanacake · 20/10/2022 19:33

Throws the tea towels in the wash basket and doesn't get out a clean one.

Are you my husband? 🤔 That is his pet peeve about me!

ThatshallotBaby · 20/10/2022 22:18

He’s a tv hog and he watches SHIT tv. Like the shittest of shit.

Tsort · 20/10/2022 22:18

ghostsandpumpkinsalready · 20/10/2022 18:03

Whenever he goes for a poo he has to use a fresh roll of loo roll and leaves half empty ones on the shelf's 😡
Gives me the rage 🤣

Every time?! So, he’s breaking out a new one (possibly multiples) every day?! Aren’t you drowning in them?!

sproutsandparsnips · 20/10/2022 22:18

Clears his throat. It's so annoying.
Doesn't read things properly (just like his father but he won't admit that) so makes eg purchases which are ill advised......

Tsort · 20/10/2022 22:19

BubbleSort · 20/10/2022 21:47

Yes.

WHAT!! What is it now ?! I'm opening fish fingers can't you see ?!
You come in here, walking on the floor - breathing the air like it's yours -talking and talking, and I'm doing something !!
Look they've fallen on the floor, are you happy now ?! Everytime I try to do something for myself, you carbonise and shit on my dreams ...

You're just like your whole family !! Why do I even dare to think I could dream, I could imagine, I could hope ? !!!

As you were.

🤣🤣🤣

appleyoudontevenknow · 20/10/2022 22:21

Floor wardrobe.

Empties dishwasher but refuses to put away pots / pans / casserole dishes?! Makes the place look sooo untidy.

GordonsAlive85 · 20/10/2022 22:24

Asks if I am OK in the middle of throwing up

ohforthelife · 20/10/2022 22:28

How long have you got?
Shuffles his feet constantly
Snores
Leaves empty packets lying around
Eats too loudly
Shuffles about in bed so much the fitted sheet comes off
Puts used teabags in random receptacles
Leaves the pantry door open every time he goes in there
Puts the duvet on sideways or upside down when making the bed
Hoards too much crap
When I'm telling someone an amusing anecdote butts in and tries to take over the story (I tell him to butt out)
I often wonder if I annoy him as much as he annoys me.

Huntswomanonthemove · 20/10/2022 22:34

Tightens the tops and lids on opened jars and bottles so they won’t spill. I can never open them. I’ve told him that before he dies he has to loosen all the lids first.

Kabbalah · 20/10/2022 22:40

He always plays the power shot and hits the ball too hard. He has no finesse to his game.

AriettyHomily · 20/10/2022 22:52

The way he hangs washing to 'help'. It doesn't ducking help at all because I have to go round and actually straighten / shake it out so it you know, dries and doesn't all look like a pile of shit.

Puts balled together socks in the laundry basket. I just leave them there now.

RiverSkater · 20/10/2022 22:58

Fart all day and grunt when he lets one out.

Indigokitten · 20/10/2022 23:04

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MidnightConstellation · 20/10/2022 23:07

If he boils the kettle and there isn’t enough water for a full cup for both of us, he makes two half cups. He takes out clean tea towels constantly when there is already one out. He chews pens so they all stop working or drip saliva or ink everywhere. He doesn’t notice if he has spilled food on his clothes. He doesn’t moisturise his skin unless I make him.
He ‘doesn’t notice’ things all the bloody time. He spatters toothpaste on the mirror and doesn’t clean it off. He leaves the toilet seat up sporadically. He loses things constantly.
He drips tea on the carpet. He gets pen marks on the sofa. The list could go on for pages. He’s well meaning but like an absent minded Professor . It drives me crazy. .

PieonaBarm · 20/10/2022 23:11

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I hate this. Cuddles me but then breathes on my neck/head/back/shoulder. Urgh

Hawkins001 · 20/10/2022 23:13

If you watch dan and lucy on YouTube, he does quite a few food loopholes, when e.g. Ment to be dieting etc.

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