Those little annoying traits of the other half
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well I couldn't live with the scruffbags that you all seem to do....... on the other hand my wife is OCD about cleanliness and tidyness. i.e. cleaning the three bathrooms fully, every two days. they genuinely do not need doing !
this does mean even with 2 young children, home is a nice place to be and eveything is organised !
But I do find stuff I have out that I'm using or finding a place for, is stuffed into cupboards and so on, because it looks untidy.
However, as this is PH- her car. Basicaly she has now dented every single panel on it and kerbed every wheel.
it looks like its been round a race track and lost.
that hurts me a lot, mainly financially.
this does mean even with 2 young children, home is a nice place to be and eveything is organised !
But I do find stuff I have out that I'm using or finding a place for, is stuffed into cupboards and so on, because it looks untidy.
However, as this is PH- her car. Basicaly she has now dented every single panel on it and kerbed every wheel.
it looks like its been round a race track and lost.
that hurts me a lot, mainly financially.
matchmaker said:
Taking sheets of kitchen roll to use as hankies. We don't use kitchen roll for much else, yet go through a roll a week. Why can't she use a cotton hanky like the rest of us do? They can be washed!
That sounds like an anooying trait of yours tbh, hankies are disgusting things.Who wants a balled up snot rag in their pocket?
Matt_N said:
matchmaker said:
Taking sheets of kitchen roll to use as hankies. We don't use kitchen roll for much else, yet go through a roll a week. Why can't she use a cotton hanky like the rest of us do? They can be washed!
That sounds like an anooying trait of yours tbh, hankies are disgusting things.Who wants a balled up snot rag in their pocket?
AyBee said:
Leaving doors open - whether it's the door on the bathroom cabinet over the sink or the front door - drives me nuts 
Oh god this. THIS. The amount of times I've bent down to get something from the bottom cupboard in the kitchen to stand up and clout my head on the top cupboard door because she's just opened it. NEVER answers her mobile phone. Ever...literally.
The poxy thing is never out of her hand when we're in the house but I can guarantee that if I phoned her now on it, it would ring out or go to voicemail.
Resolute insistence that as she cooks, that absolves her from having to do washing up/kitchen tidying. I point out that in reality, she cooks for 3 days a week and I cook for 2/3 days a week so it's pretty even, yet I clear up every day.
This is, apparently, fantasy on my part.
Refuses to take shoes off when going upstairs. Wonders why the carpet is ingrained with marks.
Happily gets a drink/snack from the kitchen for herself and not me, yet moans if I do the same.
Corrects my manners, as if I am a child. i.e:
Me: "Pass us the remote control"
Her: "Pass me the remote control please"
That last one actually drove me too nuts, so I stopped her doing it.
The poxy thing is never out of her hand when we're in the house but I can guarantee that if I phoned her now on it, it would ring out or go to voicemail.
Resolute insistence that as she cooks, that absolves her from having to do washing up/kitchen tidying. I point out that in reality, she cooks for 3 days a week and I cook for 2/3 days a week so it's pretty even, yet I clear up every day.
This is, apparently, fantasy on my part.
Refuses to take shoes off when going upstairs. Wonders why the carpet is ingrained with marks.
Happily gets a drink/snack from the kitchen for herself and not me, yet moans if I do the same.
Corrects my manners, as if I am a child. i.e:
Me: "Pass us the remote control"
Her: "Pass me the remote control please"
That last one actually drove me too nuts, so I stopped her doing it.
Lol to so many of these, here's a few from me some of which are similar to what's gone before
1) Petrol - ALWAYS empty to the point of seeing 0 or even worse --- on the trip computer. I don't know how she cuts it so fine and still makes it home?? It's OK though because the "magic petrol fairies" fill it up for her, ready for her to empty it again.
2) Keys - House keys, car keys, any kind of key will be lost with alarming regularity due to being moved around the 200 or so various handbags, purses etc she owns and uses on a daily basis. The worst part is rather then searching for her own keys, she will often just take mine instead...which obviously will also go missing.
3) When she gets behind the wheel she has excellent control of the car but is a bit oblivious to the task in hand i.e. driving and finds telling me some story about her mates, what she wants to buy, what needs doing in the house etc much more compelling. Couple this with the fact that she learnt to drive overseas in a country where there is no such thing as "defensive driving" and you can see why we often get to places with me a twitch of nerves...and yet when I drive, I often get asked to slow down for "driving too dangerously"!
4) Decide to watch a movie together, grab some snacks, fire up the projector and snuggle down on the couch and no sooner does the film start then it's bleep bleep as she gets a text\facebook update. She'll then spend the next 45 minutes texting her mates or updating facebook then eventually if\when she puts the phone down, will start asking me questions about the film, "whose that, what's that, what's going on, I don't understand"..gggrrrrr
Still it's mostly all small fry and she puts up with my weirdness too so I wouldn't have it any other way
1) Petrol - ALWAYS empty to the point of seeing 0 or even worse --- on the trip computer. I don't know how she cuts it so fine and still makes it home?? It's OK though because the "magic petrol fairies" fill it up for her, ready for her to empty it again.
2) Keys - House keys, car keys, any kind of key will be lost with alarming regularity due to being moved around the 200 or so various handbags, purses etc she owns and uses on a daily basis. The worst part is rather then searching for her own keys, she will often just take mine instead...which obviously will also go missing.
3) When she gets behind the wheel she has excellent control of the car but is a bit oblivious to the task in hand i.e. driving and finds telling me some story about her mates, what she wants to buy, what needs doing in the house etc much more compelling. Couple this with the fact that she learnt to drive overseas in a country where there is no such thing as "defensive driving" and you can see why we often get to places with me a twitch of nerves...and yet when I drive, I often get asked to slow down for "driving too dangerously"!
4) Decide to watch a movie together, grab some snacks, fire up the projector and snuggle down on the couch and no sooner does the film start then it's bleep bleep as she gets a text\facebook update. She'll then spend the next 45 minutes texting her mates or updating facebook then eventually if\when she puts the phone down, will start asking me questions about the film, "whose that, what's that, what's going on, I don't understand"..gggrrrrr
Still it's mostly all small fry and she puts up with my weirdness too so I wouldn't have it any other way
Sushifiend said:
Matt_N said:
matchmaker said:
Taking sheets of kitchen roll to use as hankies. We don't use kitchen roll for much else, yet go through a roll a week. Why can't she use a cotton hanky like the rest of us do? They can be washed!
That sounds like an anooying trait of yours tbh, hankies are disgusting things.Who wants a balled up snot rag in their pocket?
Muzzer79 said:
NEVER answers her mobile phone. Ever...literally.
The poxy thing is never out of her hand when we're in the house but I can guarantee that if I phoned her now on it, it would ring out or go to voicemail.
THIS. DOES. MY. HEAD. IN.The poxy thing is never out of her hand when we're in the house but I can guarantee that if I phoned her now on it, it would ring out or go to voicemail.
Phone is never out of her hand whilst playing candycrushfarmvillejellyf
kingsplashsaga but will she answer it? Not a chance.To try and make a point i changed the emergency number the school has to mine. Made no difference.
I crashed my bike and couldn't get a hold of her, if i'd really hurt myself then what? Would have had to call my mother and that wouldn't have ended well.
Her excuse for not answering? She needs it on silent to suppress the notifications! JESUS f
kING CHRIST WOMAN!!!!!!!!!Then, when i have a go at her for the house being untidy it's an immediate retort of 'well you know how to tidy too'.
and finally, the bit that winds me up enough to sometimes think about chopping her up is when she's clearly in the wrong, i confronth er about it and she will not accept responsibility. Instead tries to remember something i might have done that was worse, even if it was 10 years ago....
Why do we do it......
Guvernator said:
4) Decide to watch a movie together, grab some snacks, fire up the projector and snuggle down on the couch and no sooner does the film start then it's bleep bleep as she gets a text\facebook update. She'll then spend the next 45 minutes texting her mates or updating facebook then eventually if\when she puts the phone down, will start asking me questions about the film, "whose that, what's that, what's going on, I don't understand"..gggrrrrr
Similar to that, mine will start asking me what's going on, who is who, why are they doing that etc within the first 10 mins of the film starting. FFS I have no idea woman, I've not seen this film either! Or, if I have, I'm pretty sure they do explain everything. If they don't then I'll happily have a Q&A session AFTER the film has finished.
Not much bugs me, although the one thing that bugs me the most is the fact my missus stops at every fking single roundabout even when it's perfectly clear.
Visibility of a mile, no traffic in sight, approach roundabout, stop... Arghhhhhhh fking keep driving woman nothing is going to come at 200mph drifting round the fking thing is it!
king single roundabout even when it's perfectly clear.Visibility of a mile, no traffic in sight, approach roundabout, stop... Arghhhhhhh f
king keep driving woman nothing is going to come at 200mph drifting round the fking thing is it!Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff