What silly things irate you about your OH/ partner

danlojo

breathing?

daisiegg

Funny thread!

Since first reading this thread I have been racking my brains for stuff about my OH....not a huge amount springs to mind maybe we are still in honeymoon period?! (Three and a half years in???)

Anyway, I thought of a couple, even though in a weird way they are partly good things too...

1) He has an obsession with security, even though we live in a very safe area with virtually the lowest crime rate in the country. Still, better to be safe than sorry. However, he always locks the front door, does all the bolts and chains and hides the keys - even if we haven't finished outside. So ten times a day I will find myself going upstairs to find the keys and unlocking everything just to grab something from the car/accept a parcel from the postman, etc. It drives me potty - I know security is important but I think it's probably ok to not be in total lock down in the middle of the day when we are both walking around downstairs!

2) The kitchen is very much my domain, but occasionally he will go and make me a cup of tea on a Sunday morning. This always takes upwards of half an hour because when he's in there he decides to do random jobs that don't need doing, like cleaning the dishwasher filter, randomly deciding to get out the fancy wine glasses and wash them, even though they were already clean, etc.... yes, it is nice he is deciding to do chores but I am upstairs waiting for my tea! And usually what he does doesn't need doing as I keep very much on top of the kitchen.

3) He also does the thing of not listening to or acknowledging what I am saying. He cannot be prised away from his iPhone, on which he is checking his work email every 2 mins - literally.

4) He also does the thing where I might ask him to do something because I am tied up with something else, and it needs doing pretty quickly, so when he hasn't done it after a few mins I just do it and then he gets huffy saying he was going to do it!

Mr_Toad

daisiegg wrote: »

He cannot be prised away from his iPhone, on which he is checking his work email every 2 mins - literally.

I've never understood the phone checking thing. On Saturday I was doing the shopping and the girl in front of me had her phone in one hand and the trolley in the other.

Every 20 seconds, I counted, she'd check her phone. :eek:

Then when she wanted something off the shelf and it was too big for one hand she stood there dithering and you could tell she really didn't want to put the phone down. She tried all sorts but in the end she had to admit defeat and put the phone in her pocket and put the item in her trolley. She than got her phone out and checked it as if her life depended on it!

I feel like telling these people that it goes beep if something turns up, you don't have to check it constantly.

daisiegg

Mr_Toad wrote: »

I've never understood the phone checking thing. On Saturday I was doing the shopping and the girl in front of me had her phone in one hand and the trolley in the other.

Every 20 seconds, I counted, she'd check her phone. :eek:

Then when she wanted something off the shelf and it was too big for one hand she stood there dithering and you could tell she really didn't want to put the phone down. She tried all sorts but in the end she had to admit defeat and put the phone in her pocket and put the item in her trolley. She than got her phone out and checked it as if her life depended on it!

I feel like telling these people that it goes beep if something turns up, you don't have to check it constantly.

Well, his phone doesn't beep when he gets an email as it would be beeping every second! What annoys me is the fact that he isn't switching off 'work mode' when he should be. and it only ever feels like I have half his attention.

Maybe that girl was waiting for a really important call and was worried if it went in her bag/pocket she would miss the call! Or maybe she was just weird...

MentalMinnie

My husband is obsessed with using tooth picks. I find them everywhere around the house. It drives me potty.

He'll also 'suck' his teeth, which makes a squeak type noise, after dinner. Bloomin irritating!

moonbabe58

Great thread! The annoying things My OH does includes:

- Leaving plates/glasses/mugs/packets exactly where he has consumed the item, regardless of the fact that the kitchen bin/kitchen sink/dishwasher is 10 foot away!
- The above resulting in me leaving the house tidy every evening, then by the time I come home from work the next day it is a mess again!
- I give him a 20min/10min/5min/2min/dishing up warning for dinner, yet when he makes an appearance 5 minutes after it has been on the table he always asks why I didn't tell him it was ready!
- We have a perfectly good bath mat, yet he insists on laying a towel trail from the shower to the bathroom door so he doesn't get the floor wet!
- He will happily wear brand new clothes to decorate/garden/DIY in leaving no good clothes for actually going out in!

There are probably loads more! Despite all this he does a lot more that doesn't irritate me than does So he is a keeper.

aileth

I really thought it was just my OH being lazy as regards to the 'soaking' plates and leaving the sink full of disgusting water for days on end, or letting the water out and leaving the sink full of bits of food and grime/oil crumbs.

I have to say though, I said to him I refused to do the washing up until he could fix the above things, soak things for maybe 10 mins and go back, clean out the sink when he's finished. He hasn't done so, so I haven't done the washing up for months as it seems he'd rather do it than 15 seconds extra work! Hey ho it suits me.

gerby

why do woman moan so much??????????????

threemuttleys

Nails


he never bloody cuts them (finger or toe) so his socks have enormous holes in them

procastinates (drives me bloody potty)

HeadAboveWater

What silly things irate you about your OH/ partner

...other than the fact he's always right?!?!



EDIT:

That and farting Well, that wouldn't annoy me so much if he didn't act like he was 14 every time he did it! My main problem then being his 3 teenage daughters make a big thing of it too and it turns into a farting competition. They're worse than him sometimes :eek: