What silly things irate you about your OH/ partner

Hezzawithkids

Oh jeez, so many.... but the major ones are:

How he makes me responsible for his lousy memory. For example I will tell him something, then write him a note, the add a note or date to the family Google calendar, then remind him the day before. He will still forget and blame me for not telling him or reminding him :mad: Or if by some miracle he remembers and I remind him he tells me not to nag :mad:

Every family holiday he gets ill. True he has a number of underlying health issues that resurface now and again anyway, but whenever we go away as a family at some point he will be ill. It will involve him taking to his bed for a couple of days at least and some serious curtailing of trips and planned activities. I make sure that wherever we go there is somewhere I can take the kids out of the way so that he isn't disturbed but other than that we are tip-toeing around on our eyebrows for at least a couple of days every time. :mad:

Oh, and he still believes in the ironing fairy.

And he always leaves dregs in the bottom of his coffee or tea mug. Even though he doesn't take sugar and uses instant coffee. What is that about?

If he goes to bed the worse for wear he flops all over me and is such a dead-weight I can't shift him, meaning he's in a coma and I can't sleep.

Scorpio33

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

....Oh, and he still believes in the ironing fairy.

Yeah, good joke! No such thing as a ironing fairy? Ha!

(only kidding of course...)

cfkp1509

My OH is a lovely guy, but has some bad habits...

- Always asks me where his stuff is, even though he had it last.

- Doesn't put his tools away. He has had a toolbox sitting in the bathroom for about a month now.

- Is a major duvet hogger. If I get up in the night I can guarantee by the time I come back he will have rolled himself up in the duvet, so I have to try and unroll him.

- He is a bit of a hoarder. Likes keeping hold of computer bits, cables, broken/unwanted electricals, etc. We have a storage cupboard just outside our front door, stuffed full of junk. After much nagging he went out there and "sorted" it. He was ever so pleased with himself.. except half the junk from the cupboard was now plonked in the front room. :eek:

- Leaves dirty clothes on the bedroom floor.

- Doesn't wash up properly. He leaves pans, etc to "soak", then forgets about them. Also, never wipes the worktops or top of the cooker down.

VestanPance

Scorpio33 wrote: »

- Despite having two double wardrobes and nearly all the drawers in our bedroom full of her clothes, she still has nothing to wear and has to buy a new dress. Why? You have enough clothes, so wear one of those. If you are not going to wear them, get rid of them. Trying to encourage a rule of "if you want to buy something new, then you have to first git rid of something old"...not working yet though!

I see a future of pain and misery. Next you'll claim she doesn't need a new pair of shoes for that new outfit, as she already has something like 300 pairs of which at least 80 look like the new pair she has just purchased to go with said outfit!

Scorpio33

VestanPance wrote: »

I see a future of pain and misery. Next you'll claim she doesn't need a new pair of shoes for that new outfit, as she already has something like 300 pairs of which at least 80 look like the new pair she has just purchased to go with said outfit!

Oh you have met my wife then?

andygb

I just shake my head in amazement sometimes at my OH (I bet she does the same at me - plus more:D), because she seems to do the opposite thing, hear the opposite to what I have said and say the opposite thing to what she means to say.
She somehow manages to put hot saucepan lids on a work surface upside down - with their handles towards the surface - and then she wonders why she gets burn't so much.
She has "killed" our last three kettles by constantly overfilling them.
She has ruined my best knives by using them to chop through lamb leg bones, rather than ask me to use the hacksaw.
I cannot bear to watch her when she is cutting anything in the kitchen - she kind of hacks at it, cuts towards her fingers, and leaves her fingers spread straight out when chopping things:eek:

I wouldn't swap her for anything though.

Tish_P

My beloved (and he is lovely, and I'm sure I do just as much to annoy him)...

...uses all the milk. However much there is. I suspect he bathes in it when I'm not looking.
...thinks that the process of doing laundry goes: 1. Put stuff in machine and press go. 2. Wet laundry takes itself out, hangs itself to dry then puts itself away in the wardrobe.
...keeps buying household items of which we already have a large enough stockpile to see ourselves through a nuclear winter.
...fills every drawer in the house with the boxes, chargers, wires etc. from long-broken electronic goods.
...buys so much more food than we need, we have to throw loads of it away two weeks later. To be fair, sometimes he will put it in the freezer so we can throw it away two years later instead.

I'm sure there's more but it won't do me any good to dwell on it.

Joons

Tish_P wrote: »

My beloved (and he is lovely, and I'm sure I do just as much to annoy him)...

...uses all the milk. However much there is. I suspect he bathes in it when I'm not looking.
...thinks that the process of doing laundry goes: 1. Put stuff in machine and press go. 2. Wet laundry takes itself out, hangs itself to dry then puts itself away in the wardrobe.
...keeps buying household items of which we already have a large enough stockpile to see ourselves through a nuclear winter.
...fills every drawer in the house with the boxes, chargers, wires etc. from long-broken electronic goods.
...buys so much more food than we need, we have to throw loads of it away two weeks later. To be fair, sometimes he will put it in the freezer so we can throw it away two years later instead.

I'm sure there's more but it won't do me any good to dwell on it.

Haha, funny

Fuzzy_Duck

Not much thankfully!

The only things that bug me are how my boyfriend always chucks his used clothes on the floor rather than in the laundry basket. Occasionally there are t-shirts he's hardly worn and hoodies, but I just assume everything on the floor needs washing now. Much easier than nagging him about it! Although I did recently get annoyed when he's chucked his day old socks over all the nice clean socks I'd just washed :mad:

Other than that I hate it when I say something to him and he's busy looking at his book or computer screen. Sometimes he hears me, sometimes he doesn't. Either way I will have to wait a good few moments before he finally turns round and acknowledges me and I know whether I need to repeat myself or not.

Puzzcat

balletshoes wrote: »

Sock balls annoy me - is there some kind of special knack to managing to take your socks off in such a way that they make little sock balls every single time? When I take my socks off they don't form themselves into sock balls. Its a mystery.

I have tears streaming down my face having read this one...:rotfl: