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What silly things irate you about your OH/ partner

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  • Hmm, I may be here for a while...

    * Cons me in to 'a drive out', or some such novel idea and then goes ''oh look, a pub!!''. So then I drive home (I'm not really a drinker so don't actually mind at all). The bit that p!sses me off is that he will then criticise my driving the whole way, making me nervous and into making silly mistakes. If you don't like my driving - don't engineer situations where you make me!!!! I have to add, I'm normally a happy, relaxed driver, but if he's in the car with me, it really craps me off!
    * Leaving bike magazines in the bathroom, on the edge of the bath. This is a new phenomenon, and has only been going on for the past few months...I've taken to hiding the offending mag/book. It just looks untidy!
    * Nose picking and talking with his mouth full...although sometime I feel like leaving him over these two!
    * Managing to get water all over the bathroom vanity unit when washing hands/face/cleaning teeth. Why he feels the need to fling water everywhere is beyond me!
    * Leaving bits of various push bikes/accessories lying around, despite having a shed, a shelving unit in the laundry and 2 shelves in the laundry cupboard for 'bike bits'.
    * 'Tidying', which actually involves shuffling smaller piles of crap into bigger piles of crap.
    * Leaving stuff lying all over the place, and then accusing me of being untidy! Oh, and complaining I don't do much during the day - what he fails to realise is that I'm constantly tidying up after him and his trail of debris. Which he doesn't realise exists because I tidy as I go.

    There are no doubt more, but that'll do for now!
    CM
    :j
  • andygb
    andygb Posts: 14,655 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Sounds just like my OH. He's a mechanic and wants a shed to store his car parts even though we have a garage which is full of car parts that need to be sold.

    He keeps saying he'll put them on ebay but never does it. I offer to do it for him but he never tells me what they are for me to be able to list them.

    He has also filled my spare room with Warhammer figures and the loft with 35mm cameras and film.

    Anyone want to swap? :o

    I would offer myself as a replacement model, but you would be getting rid of his car parts, models and cameras, and taking mine instead:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    You women just don't realise the intrinsic value of these PRECIOUS (I am sounding like Gollom form Lord of the Rings now:o) items. How can you not appreciate the beauty of a 1962 Pentax Spotmatic with its 55mm Takumar lens, or marvel at a pair of brand new doors from a 1972 MGB GT?
    You lot just do shoes. handbags and chocolate :p, whilst our interests are far more varied and exotic;)
  • andygb
    andygb Posts: 14,655 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Hmm, I may be here for a while...

    * Cons me in to 'a drive out', or some such novel idea and then goes ''oh look, a pub!!''. So then I drive home (I'm not really a drinker so don't actually mind at all). The bit that p!sses me off is that he will then criticise my driving the whole way, making me nervous and into making silly mistakes. If you don't like my driving - don't engineer situations where you make me!!!! I have to add, I'm normally a happy, relaxed driver, but if he's in the car with me, it really craps me off!
    * Leaving bike magazines in the bathroom, on the edge of the bath. This is a new phenomenon, and has only been going on for the past few months...I've taken to hiding the offending mag/book. It just looks untidy!
    * Nose picking and talking with his mouth full...although sometime I feel like leaving him over these two!
    * Managing to get water all over the bathroom vanity unit when washing hands/face/cleaning teeth. Why he feels the need to fling water everywhere is beyond me!
    * Leaving bits of various push bikes/accessories lying around, despite having a shed, a shelving unit in the laundry and 2 shelves in the laundry cupboard for 'bike bits'.
    * 'Tidying', which actually involves shuffling smaller piles of crap into bigger piles of crap.
    * Leaving stuff lying all over the place, and then accusing me of being untidy! Oh, and complaining I don't do much during the day - what he fails to realise is that I'm constantly tidying up after him and his trail of debris. Which he doesn't realise exists because I tidy as I go.

    There are no doubt more, but that'll do for now!
    CM


    Blimey, for a moment I thought my missus had signed up to MSE:eek:


    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Tidying up is indeed like "English Language" and "Precis", whereby you try to achieve the same thing by using less space/words, thus satisfying the gods of ergonomics and efficiency.
    Let me give you an example:
    When my OH and I return from shopping, she will attempt to put items in the fridge, and then complain that we have purchased too much stuff and it will not fit.
    I then take over, and in five minutes all the goods are packed neatly away with a shelf to spare:D
  • My fellas ability to look for things but never finds them, however if I look, usually in the same places, there they are. Strange that!!!
  • Mr_Toad
    Mr_Toad Posts: 2,462 Forumite
    Bobster64 wrote: »
    My fellas ability to look for things but never finds them, however if I look, usually in the same places, there they are. Strange that!!!

    What my ex calls a boy look :D
    One by one the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.
  • gixer750
    gixer750 Posts: 73 Forumite
    shouldnt this thread be re-named let women have a moan about there o/h"s dont see many men moaning :D:D:D:T
  • victory
    victory Posts: 16,188 Forumite
    gixer750 wrote: »
    shouldnt this thread be re-named let women have a moan about there o/h"s dont see many men moaning :D:D:D:T

    All men are perfect and women are....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    misspiggy wrote: »
    I'm sure you're an angel in disguise Victory :)
  • This_Year
    This_Year Posts: 1,344 Forumite
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    My ex would dish up dinner and then bring it to the table with the knife and fork laid across/in the food :mad: why not just put the cutlery on the table? Hated having to wipe the handles before using!

    He would also mash potatoes and then dish up the mash from the middle of the pan - leaving a good inch of potato around the edge of the pan - which he then filled with water to soak! :mad: He could never ever see how much he wasted.

    He used to meet me from work, and pushed his bike while I walked. Then would say something I was going to object to, jump on the bike and cycle off, calling out "see you by the lights"

    It was when he began picking up the other phone to see who I was talking to, and opening my post, scrolling through my phone and ringing my friends to see had I been out with them as I had said (with absolutely no reason to distrust what I had said) that I had enough and coupled with his other issues divorced him!
  • big5
    big5 Posts: 370 Forumite
    He'll ask me a question, I'll respond, then 5 mins later he'll ask the same question because he wasn't listening the first time.

    I'll ask him a question like "Would you like this or that?" and he'll say "Yes" without saying which one he wants.

    I'm frequently woken up in the morning by his farts.
  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    andygb wrote: »

    You women just don't realise the intrinsic value of these PRECIOUS (I am sounding like Gollom form Lord of the Rings now:o) items.
    How can you not appreciate the beauty of a 1962 Pentax Spotmatic with its 55mm Takumar lens, or marvel at a pair of brand new doors from a 1972 MGB GT?

    I just read "blah bla bla blah blah blah bla bla bla blah" - nope, does not compute :D.
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