Fluff: weird things your spouses do (nothing serious, this is for fun)

[postesf]

The cereal bowl partly filled with milk left on the dining room table all day.

Mine too!

 

[ckay87]

Turns off my nightlights. I know, not very "green" of me, but I like a little bathroom or kitchen nighlight on. It absolutely KILLS him to leave these things burning. I have tried taping the switches to the "on" position. Nope. Stuff like this goes back to how we were raised, I'm sure.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

He eats toast with butter and then slathers peanut butter on top of it. Gross.
He also eats sandwiches made of poached eggs and toast slathered with mayo.

I can't STAND the smell. It's so disgusting.

He also insists on sleeping with the fan on, no matter what the weather.

I love him any way.

 

[preshi]

My SO turns on every light in every room of the house he goes into and leaves them on...earlier today he turned on every light on inthe bedroom/bathroom, the tv, left his wet towel on the bed, got something out of the dryer and left it open and was in the family room drinking coffee. It's a good thing the man is a saint otherwise.

 

[NMAmy]

DH cannot pour a cup of coffee without making a mess. There's a trail of coffee all over the kitchen every morning and my counters were always stained by the coffee pot. I bought a big children's plastic placemat and put it under the pot and that catches most of the mess. BTW, I know it isn't me because I don't drink coffee.

And in the spirit of fairness, it drives DH crazy when I leave the fridge open when I'm cooking. We have a small kitchen and I'll grab the ingredients, add them to whatever I'm cooking and then slide them back in the fridge and close the door. It's open for maybe 2 minutes tops and it drives him mad. I finally told him he could do all the cooking and keep the fridge closed or he could just close his eyes when I was in there and learn to ignore it.

 

[tycopj]

I have a little oval bread basket---you know, for biscuits, garlic bread, whatever, that you want to put on the table. I keep it on the kitchen counter. He takes it off the counter and puts it in random places. I usually find it back on the washer or dryer, or in our old house we had this little pantry area off the mudroom, with a short counter and a set of cupboards and drawers, and he would put it back there. When I gripe about it, he says it doesn't belong in the kitchen. Of course it belongs in the kitchen. It is a food serving item. WTH???

On the other hand, he sticks his assorted pens, papers, business cards, screwdrivers, screws, batteries, odd bits of small hardware, and whatever else up in the cupboard where the dishes are. So you go to pull out a plate or bowl and there is stuff falling out at you.

Okay so...bread baskets don't belong in the kitchen, but hardware and office supplies do???

OMG, this is so funny!!! It sounds like my husband, but it never seemed so funny until I read your post

 

[DizBelle]

The one silly thing I wish I could get my DH to stop doing is leaving his underwear on the floor in hotel rooms we're staying in. I'm sure the housekeeping crew isn't interested in dealing with his skivvies.

 

[DL55]

My pet peeve is leaving the cupboard doors and drawers open after looking for something or taking something out. It takes 2 seconds to just close the door or the drawer and it looks so much better! I come home and I swear every drawer and cupboard door is open. I am beginning to think they do this to me on purpose!

My SO turns on every light in every room of the house he goes into and leaves them on...earlier today he turned on every light on inthe bedroom/bathroom, the tv, left his wet towel on the bed, got something out of the dryer and left it open and was in the family room drinking coffee. It's a good thing the man is a saint otherwise.

I can always tell where my DH has been by the open doors/ drawers and lights on. He'll turn on the garage light to go to the freezer (even though you can see by the light of the kitchen) and forget to turn it off 5 seconds later when he leaves. Same for bathroom and closet lights.

When he sits he has to move his leg constantly. Reminds me of a dog when you scratch that certain spot. except it's really fast and really annoying.

 

[mom2rb]

DH can beat the not putting the toilet paper on the roll. We have a water closet (the small room with just the toilet in it). He not only doesn't put it on the roll, it takes it out the the water closet and puts in on the counter by the sink. He does this every time he goes in there. I put four or five rolls on the window sill just to be safe. If he is home all day, I will go to the bathroom and have NO TOILET PAPER. Of course I can look and see four rolls on the counter but I can't reach it. This makes me crazy.

 

[OK!]

My husband cannot sit still. He has to be in motion at all times. This doesn't bother me much when we're home, but when we're on vacation, I like to just sit in a hot tub and relax or lay out in a lounge chair and just relax and enjoy the sounds of the ocean....he cannot do this! He lasts maybe 3 minutes, tops! Then he's up and moving around "I'm going here" "I'm going there." He can't even sit on the couch and watch TV without doing something - his favorite thing to do is take the battery door on the TV remote off..then back on...then off...then back on. Drives me mad!

I also find it odd that he will not touch tomatoes....ketchup....tomato soup....salsa....says he hates tomatoes and anything tomato-based. But he devours pizza and spaghetti sauce!

Whoa, you just described both me (1st paragraph) and the BF (2nd) to a tee! I don't understand why he can eat pizza like it's going out of style but refuses to have anything to do with a raw tomato. And then he says he's not 100% sure he's ever had a raw tomato, but he's pretty sure he won't like them, so he refuses to try.

He actually gets on me for the not-being-able-to-sit-still thing. He doesn't see why it's so difficult to just sit and watch TV. I'm usually on the computer or reading or doing something else at the same time because I get bored in a heartbeat unless I'm multitasking. I can barely take baths because it irritates me to have to go to all the effort to fill the tub and then be way past ready to get out after 3 minutes.

 

[arielsleepingbeauty]

He turns the remote control over. For the longest time i never asked him, but i couldn't stand it any longer. He said that he turns it over so that it doesn't slip off the table or night stand. I guess that's reasonable, i just found it to be weird sine i never saw it done before.

 

[NotUrsula]

Thought of another one: when he hurts himself in a minor way, he says, "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" -- really fast. Never just one "ow" will do; it's got to be this rapid-fire string of them. He says that he does it to keep from cursing, which I appreciate, but it sounds really ridiculous coming from a grown man.

(The worst part is that it's catching -- I actually caught myself doing it the other day. )

 

[Mickeyluver37]

I cannot STAND the way my dh loads the dishwasher. I have my system down, and we he loads half a load, I end up rearranging it to finish loading it and it just takes me longer!

My dh also had the fan problem for years. I finally couldn't take it anymore and boycotted fans in the bedroom. It was noisy (which is why he likes it-white noise) and it would blow my little hairs in my face and prevent me from sleeping.

 

[zigzagzerr]

Two mornings a week, my DH gets up extra early (before 5 am) for work. From upstairs in bed, I can HEAR him eating a bowl of cereal. Crunch crunch crunch, clang of the spoon, crunch. I'm not sure I could make that much noise if I tried!

 

[OhMari]

All of these are so darn funny.



My dh turns on the tv, the minute we get in the house. He turns it on the when he wakes up and he falls asleep with it on.
I finally asked him one day, if he needs the tv on to go the bathroom.
I never said anything for a long time, but one day I got really mad when he dumped the groceries on the counter and went to watch tv. I put the grocery's in spots where they didn't belong. He found different grocery items for about a month in places they didn't belong. For someone that is a "stacker" and a organizer, this drove him crazy. I told him, "leave the tv off and help me next time."

 

[luvpooh]

he always leaves the bathroom sink a mess whether it be whiskers after shaving or toothpaste. I finally realized he spits out his toothpaste when he rinses from like 3 feet up, I'm like bend over and spit where the water's running!!!

He is also very regimented in certain things, very routine driven. Not necessarily a bad thing but sometimes it's really okay if you don't lay out your clothes the night before, or if we don't have chicken on a Tuesday!

 

[MushyMushy]

It doesn't really aggravate me, but it's something I've always noticed about him. He has to be occupied with something every waking moment. I don't believe in the 15 years we've been together that he's ever just sat in quiet contemplation. Always has to have television, music, or something in the background, and something going on in front of him. Work, games, or a book. Even if he's watching tv or a movie, he's got to have something to occupy him other than that.

Takes off his socks and shoves them in the sides of the couch

Now that cracked me up!

 

[mickeyboat]

My DH does many of the same things that your DHs do - can't change the tp roll, can't find anything in the fridge, leaving clothes on the floor, eats toast with butter AND peanut butter and fried egg sandwiches with butter and mayo (I call them cholesterol bombs).

Something else I can't stand is his hat. He wears one every day and is a carpenter, so it tends to get dirty. When he sits down in the evening, he puts his hat on the top of the couch. It seems no matter where I sit, his grungy hat is right there near my head. I always fling it across the room!

Denae

 

[Jenvenza]

DH takes off his socks and other articles of clothing and throws them on the side of the couch next to the wall. It drives me insane. And he cannot close a drawer all the way to save his life.

 

[Michelle67]

I can always tell where my DH has been by the open doors/ drawers and lights on. He'll turn on the garage light to go to the freezer (even though you can see by the light of the kitchen) and forget to turn it off 5 seconds later when he leaves. Same for bathroom and closet lights.

When he sits he has to move his leg constantly. Reminds me of a dog when you scratch that certain spot. except it's really fast and really annoying.

I call that "crack tapping," you know...because crackheads can't sit still and tap their feet or drum their fingers all the time. My adult daughter and my best friend's husband are both crack tappers. They shake my dining room table because they rest their foot on the feet of the table and do it. I'm always yelling at them "QUIT CRACK TAPPING!" BTW, they are not crackheads. I just call them that because they can't sit still.