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

[NotUrsula]

Time for a fun poll of strange/mildly annoying things that your spouses do that make you shake your head and maybe grind your teeth a little. (This is meant to be in fun, so no major gambling/drinking issues or infidelity rants, please.)

Here's mine: DH cannot seem to stack bowls/cups/plates/canned goods in order of size. He has a habit of putting larger things on top of smaller ones, so that when a short person (that would be me) opens the cabinets, the teetering stack comes crashing down half the time. He's the only grownup I know who can't seem to manage the proper order of an infant's ring-stacking toy!

 

[Kies99]

Time for a fun poll of strange/mildly annoying things that your spouses do that make you shake your head and maybe grind your teeth a little. (This is meant to be in fun, so no major gambling/drinking issues or infidelity rants, please.)

Here's mine: DH cannot seem to stack bowls/cups/plates/canned goods in order of size. He has a habit of putting larger things on top of smaller ones, so that when a short person (that would be me) opens the cabinets, the teetering stack comes crashing down half the time. He's the only grownup I know who can't seem to manage the proper order of an infant's ring-stacking toy!

I do this on purpose to my wife. She has a cupboard full of tupperware. At least half of it is never used!! It drives me nuts as you can never find tops for anything as there's to much in there. So when I put stuff away, I purposely stack it so that it leans against the door. When she opens it, it falls out and scares her.

Granted, I have warned her I will be doing this until she gets rid of stuff. She just puts up with it.

 

[beckmrk04]

My husband makes bad jokes. Not like dirty jokes or anything, but reeeaally bad *groan and shake your head* puns and jokes.

His favorite for the holiday season:

Me: "I'm going to wrap presents."

DH: "Wicki-wicki" (this is supposed to be the sound of a scratching record, like a "rapper" would make...)

GROAN. It's so dumb, but he cracks himself up every time.

 

[sandy6879]

Mine will leave his empty soda bottles on the sink instead of putting them in the recycling area. It's about a 3 foot difference from the sink to the closet where we store them, and he'd need to walk by the closet to leave the kitchen. Drives me nuts - I think that's why he keeps doing it.

If that's the worst that happens, we're doing ok

 

[amyhughes]

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

 

[tinkntraining]

My husband is corny, too -- when we pass a sign on the road for a garage sale -- he'll say, "how much do you think they'll let us have it for? Oh, never mind, we already have a garage". I love him, even though he's a little corny.

But, the one thing that drives me absolutely crazy, is he flicks his toes. I am not a "foot" person to begin with, and for some reason, the sound of his toes rubbing together really drives me nuts (and not in a good way)! Of course, he knows it, so he does it just to bug me.

 

[princesspiglet]

These are pretty funny! Let me preface this by saying, "Honey, I love you to a million pieces! (just in case he is reading)

DH knows this drives me nuts, but he is constantly cleaning his teeth and trying to get food out of his teeth. He licks his gums and moves his tongue around everywhere and purses his lips and makes this sucking sound...it annoys the heck out of me. I'm like- GRAB A DARN TOOTHPICK ALREADY! I tell him when we go out that he is not allowed to do his ritual until we LEAVE the restuarant. Besides that, he is pretty wonderful.

 

[koolaidmoms]

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!

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

My husband always buys the most expensive item available...but only after completing hours and hours of research...personally looking at every single item available at least a couple of times...and STILL deciding for the most expensive.

Sometimes that's good...but sometimes it isn't!

 

[Rora]

DFiance always leaves his phone on vibrate and can never ever feel his phone vibrating. So, I (and the rest of my family and his) have to leave him messages or call him like 6 million times until he realizes "I think my phone is vibrating".

It drives me nuts.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

My husband seems to have some kind of noise emitting from his body at all times. He's either singing, humming or tapping on something constantly. He is very musical and directs a chorus and says he always has something running through his head that he's working on.

The other weird thing he does is spin. Yes, he spins in circles. He mostly does it when he's reading something or talking on the phone and deep in thought (thank goodness for cordless phones). He says he doesn't even realize he's doing it. He probably has some mild form of autism. Apparently the signs were there when he was growing up but his parents just thought he was quirky. Our son has mild autism and it's thought that there is a genetic link so.....But, he's worked for the same company for 21 years and we've been married for 20 so I can't complain too much about his uh....nonconformities!

 

[mickeymedic]

DH won't put clothes away. He will wash them, dry them, and even attempt to fold them (please notice that I said ATTEMPT.) But once they are folded in the basket - that's good enough for him. For years we simply lived out of laundry baskets because I got tired of having to put everything away every time. But now that our laundry room and our clothing closets are on the same floor of the house (1st floor) I have started putting clothes away again.

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

He simply refuses to put a new roll of toilet paper on the roller thingy. He will get it from the closet (sometimes), and place it on the back of the toilet or the sink. I'm like, "You sit there long enough, just put it on the roller!" I mean, the man has a doctorate, I think he can figure it out!

Also, he never can find anything in a cabinet or the fridge. I am constantly saying "Things are not three inches deep. It will not JUMP out at you! you have to look!"

Sheesh. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

 

[CathrynRose]

Time for a fun poll of strange/mildly annoying things that your spouses do that make you shake your head and maybe grind your teeth a little. (This is meant to be in fun, so no major gambling/drinking issues or infidelity rants, please.)

Here's mine: DH cannot seem to stack bowls/cups/plates/canned goods in order of size. He has a habit of putting larger things on top of smaller ones, so that when a short person (that would be me) opens the cabinets, the teetering stack comes crashing down half the time. He's the only grownup I know who can't seem to manage the proper order of an infant's ring-stacking toy!

This is so funny, because the first thing I thought of when I read this was "he stack's" My husband is a stacker.

Everything is stacked. If he's been in the room, he'll stack something. My medicine cabinet is stacked. Stuff on my kitchen counter is stacked.

Perhaps your husband and mine could get together for a stacking class. But be forwarned, I hate the stacking. I unstack everything he stacks. Because he is so good at stacking, sometimes I'll knock stuff over and leave it simply to show him it didn't need to be stacked, because it will fall.

 

[mirmartinez]

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

 

[merekc]

My DH doesn't know how to scrap his plate into the trash.

He will put a plate/bowl in the sink with half his meal on it, then water gets turned on and it just turns into a huge mess. Or it sits there overnight and turns to concrete.

DS6 and DS3 can do it, but not him. Good thing I love him.

I may just be jealous that he knows how to stop when he's full and doesn't feel the need to clean his plate.

 

[MomToARedhead]

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!

 

[Michelle67]

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???

 

[marenian]

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!

This is exactly what my DH does...drives me insane. I was away on business Sunday-Monday and got home last night. I knew exactly which cupboards/drawers he had been in since each one was still hanging open about 2 inches.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Not weird, but he will have the whole house lit if I don't follow behind and turn off.