What silly things irate you about your OH/ partner

This_Year

I get the running commentary too whatever we're watching, I may as well have the sound off as he just talks over it.

I get nudged while he's watching football to watch the goal being replayed from all angles - I don't enjoy football and a goal is well, a goal! The fact that I point my face towards the tv does not mean I'm actually watching it.

On the rare occasion I manage to sleep in, that's when he wakes me up with a cup of tea.

This last one infuriates me: he'll sit next to me while I'm on my laptop and read over my shoulder what I'm doing. And then (especially on MSE) demand to read the thread below the one I wanted to read - use your own laptop! I read very quickly, he reads very slowly and I'm climbing the wall by the time he's finished the post. Or I'm wanting to check my email etc, he's bored so he hovers in the doorway making idle chit chat and breaking my train of thought - if he let me just DO it I would be finished a lot sooner!

I'm sure that I have one or two annoying habits too but I can't think of any :rotfl:

Top_Girl

Mine annoys me by his non-existence

Plamela

I just started reading this thread as I was intrigued to look at some of the answers.
When I read your post, it just made me stop and have a little chuckle to myself. I am also an expert on various classic cars aswell!! lol

Just_Plain_Jane wrote: »

My husband:

• Encroaches onto my side of the bed during the night and clings to my back like a red-hot limpet. I end up with half an inch between me and the edge of the bed and I have to wake him up if I want to turn over. I'm often drenched with perspiration down one side.
  
• He also doesn't respond when I speak to him sometimes, even though he has heard me.
  
• He talks in-depth about motorbikes - all the time.
  
• He never wipes the sink down after doing the dishes, just leaves bubbles/puddles of water everywhere.

Other than that he's the perfect husband.:rotfl:

Violet8

When he comes to bed he takes his clothes off and "stores" them in a heap on the floor on my side of the bed. When I ask him to put them in the wardrobe/washing hamper instead he tells me as his eyes are not used to the dark at that point in time it unfortunately won't be possible. When I tell him to feel free to put the light on as I am a v heavy sleeper and won't notice he swears up and down every time he has done this I woke up and narked at him. I have 100% never once woken up because he has turned the light on. I then ask him to name the last time this occurred and he can't.

We have this conversation probably about once every 2 months and every time it goes the exact same. It is more of an inside joke now, we both giggle as we say our respective lines!

Our kitchen light switch is also just round the corner from the doorway into the living room above a worktop so you kind of reach without looking to switch it on when entering the room. He likes to liven this experience up for me by leaving some kind of spillable object between the doorway and the switch for me to knock over e.g. half drunk glass of juice.

He also leaves the key in the mortice so I can't unlock the door from the other side when I get home from work. Every time he comes to the door all sheepish and I make some unwitty comment about needing the extra time to clear up all the stuff he doesn't want me to know about.

On the other hand, I apparently "wipe down the kitchen surfaces funny" and am an occasional noisy eater. Fun in our household! :rotfl:

garfield33

This thread has made me feel better about my OH (and anything involving farting has made me giggle a lot), but there are still a few things...
- he's a very noisy eater / drinker (slurps tea like a drain) / sneezer / nose blower. All gross and he wonders why I shuffle away from him
- Hogs the bed - I like my own space and usually end up clinging to the edge so that I can't feel him breathing on me. Ugh sleep breath no thanks!
- has very cold hands, almost all the time, and likes to put them on me. This occasionally results in him getting elbowed in the belly
- places new toilet roll on top of the finished one, instead of replacing and binning. The bin is right underneath the loo roll holder.
- leaves the loo lid up (not the seat - he likes to sit which is fine by me), knowing full well that I have butterfingers and am likely to drop things in the loo.
- opens a letter, then leaves the torn envelope lying on the table. I did a test once and one sat there for weeks til I cracked and binned it.
- totally addicted to his iPhone and wonders why I get huffy if we go out somewhere nice and he spends the whole time reading twitter!
- picks up weird vocal "tics" a bit like Fred off Corrie in the old days - the current one is "As I say..." at the start of every sentence.
- after eating a bowl of cereal, rinses the bowl out (good) but leaves a cm of milky scummy water in the bowl for me to throw down myself when I move it (bad).
- hoarder - has a lot of c**p in the spare room. Drawers full of cables for defunct gadgets, a computer that could go in a museum, general nerdy items that I daren't ask about
- keeps almost empty toothpaste tubes "to use on holiday". We have never done this, and I found six last year in varying stages of dustiness. I made him finish them off
- I get up first in the morning, and he lies in bed yawning loudly and making such a big deal about getting up

Obviously I'm far from perfect too and annoy him with general grumpiness (can you tell from the list above?!), trails of long hair that block the vacuum cleaner and an inability to stay awake after 10.30

This_Year

garfield33 wrote: »

trails of long hair that block the vacuum cleaner and an inability to stay awake after 10.30

Are you me? My hair is always blocking the bath plug, apparently however when I go to remove it, it's never there and there's none in the bin. Odd that.

I also tug the duvet (to try and get some over me) when he's cocooned himself in it but I do that with bad grace, apparently.
Well excuse me, it's blinking freezing cold outside and we don't heat the bedroom anyway, so I wouldn't mind a smidge of duvet, if you don't mind?!

Shoshannah

He spends all day on the computer at work, then comes home and spends all evening/weekend on his own computer.

He pronounces 'clothes' as 'cloves'.