What does your spouse/SO do to bemuse you?

[mrsv98]

Every morning, DH comes downstairs and takes a swig of my coffee. He never wants any of his own, he says mine tastes better... I told him if he keeps it up his body may never be found and no jury would convict me...

 

[MEK]

OK, I'll play. My DH has a bad habit of leaving crumpeled napkins, kleenex, and paper towels in various spots in the house. He claims he is going to "use them again". It happens at least daily and frequently multiple times. I wonder why he doesn't notice that they have already been disposed of when he DOES go to use them again?

 

[momto3pirates]

When my dh takes his socks off, they end up inside out. Drives me crazy because I'm the one that has to reach in and turn them out to wash laundry. I stopped nagging him about it because after 17 years, it's not going to change. I now wash his sock inside out. I also put them in his drawer inside out.

 

[MEK]

When my dh takes his socks off, they end up inside out. Drives me crazy because I'm the one that has to reach in and turn them out to wash laundry. I stopped nagging him about it because after 17 years, it's not going to change. I now wash his sock inside out. I also put them in his drawer inside out.

haha I used to put my DH's paper collection in his drawer too, but then I ran out of room for the socks!

 

[SaraJayne]

When my dh takes his socks off, they end up inside out. Drives me crazy because I'm the one that has to reach in and turn them out to wash laundry. I stopped nagging him about it because after 17 years, it's not going to change. I now wash his sock inside out. I also put them in his drawer inside out.

I do the same for both DH and DS. If they go into the wash inside out, that is how they come out, and that is how DH will find them in his sock drawer and DS on his bed to be put away.

 

[Jedana]

When my dh takes his socks off, they end up inside out. Drives me crazy because I'm the one that has to reach in and turn them out to wash laundry. I stopped nagging him about it because after 17 years, it's not going to change. I now wash his sock inside out. I also put them in his drawer inside out.

This is my husband. Except not just socks. It's shirts also--and he leaves his work shirts buttoned up (just slides them over his head). He has lost a lot of buttons, because I am not digging through the pile of dirty clothes to unbutton his shirts when I do laundry. That's ok--he has to sew them back on, because I won't.


And the standby classic--he leaves the toilet seat up at night. He claims he's trying to be quiet and not wake me up if he uses the bathroom, but I think it's because he wants me to fall in the toilet again. Yes. Again. (Go ahead--get it out of your system. Better now?)

When I was pregnant with DS, I really had to pee, it was dark and I didn't think to check the seat was down. I couldn't get back up, because I was so off balance (being almost 9 months along didn't make life fun--I hadn't seen my feet in over 5 months)--and I went right ahead and did what I had to do, and then yelled for him to get up and help me.

 

[castmemberb4]

DH takes things out of the fridge that need to be thrown away and sits it on the counter or sink. I like to point out that it hasn't walked itself to the trashcan yet.

 

[DeaverTex]

Mrs. Tex has a tendency to find magazines that I'm in the midst of reading, and convey them directly into a black hole from which they never emerge. She swears that she doesn't throw them away, and I suppose I believe her, but I've had more magazines than I can remember just vanish from the face of the earth -- and I never took them out of the living room. None have ever been seen again.

I love her anyhow.

 

[kimmar067]

.....he juggles.














































.....what? Oh, I thought you said 'AMUSE"......never mind - mah bad.

 

[furb & dez]

My SO is utterly incapable of screwing on lids sufficiently or closing up perishable items tightly. I just seal up whatever it is when I find it, or throw it away if it's gone bad/stale.

The whole "leaving papers/trash around" thing wouldn't fly with me. I can't see why any sane person wouldn't just leave it there until it's thrown away. What are you, his mother?

 

[Shanna-like-Banana]

DH, does the same thing with his socks.

He says "well, it's the inside that's the dirty part"

I wash them inside out and I don't even match them up and fold them. He gets a pile of inside out socks.

Ohhhh, the other thing that lights my fire, is when I've already seperated the laundry and he goes back behind me, and pick out clothes to make a load of his own and tries to skip the line and do just his stuff.

no way buster, you are helping fold all this other crap, if I have to do it, you're doing it too.

 

[Nixie]

Me: When hubby unloads the dishwasher, he puts all the dishes on the counter. For some odd reason, the extra effort it would take to lift the dishes an extra two inches to put them in the cupboard is I guess too much. Drives me bonkers!!

Him: He hates it when I leave the cupboard or pantry doors open. There is usually a reason like I am in the middle of cooking and needed something but am planning on putting it back right after I use it. He can't stand it. He will walk right behind me and close the doors. (Sometimes when I am still trying to get stuff out!! LOL)

 

[christinou]

OK, I'll play. My DH has a bad habit of leaving crumpeled napkins, kleenex, and paper towels in various spots in the house. He claims he is going to "use them again". It happens at least daily and frequently multiple times. I wonder why he doesn't notice that they have already been disposed of when he DOES go to use them again?

DH does the exact same thing, drives me crazy. I keep throwing them away

 

[marmalade]

My DH will decide he needs a snack at the same time I am getting the kids ready to brush their teeth and go to bed.

 

[BearcatsFan]

My DH will tell me, "Oh, by the way, I'm out of work clothes" at about 10 o'clock at night. Well guess what buddy, they sure as heck ain't getting done now!

 

[Promomx2]

My dh is a receipt hoarder. Whether it's from the grocery store, a restaurant or the auto parts store, the receipt comes in the house is set down on the counter or the bedroom nightstand and the forgotten. Then after I've looked at them for over a week, and ask him "do you need this?", I get "no, I'll throw it away" and if I don't throw it away, it will set there another week.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

1. Puts nothing back in the cabinet, leaves it sitting on the counter.
2. Leaves trash on the counter.
3. Puts trash (paper towels, napkins etc) in the sink with dirty dishes.
4. Piles mail on the table...and expects to never be moved.
5. Thinks the hall is an appropriate place to store things. (and gets mad when I move it after a week of walking around it)
6. Hangers in the laundry basket.

Sometimes it is like living with ALF.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

1. Puts nothing back in the cabinet, leaves it sitting on the counter.
2. Leaves trash on the counter.
3. Puts trash (paper towels, napkins etc) in the sink with dirty dishes.
4. Piles mail on the table...and expects to never be moved.
5. Thinks the hall is an appropriate place to store things. (and gets mad when I move it after a week of walking around it)
6. Hangers in the laundry basket.

Sometimes it is like living with ALF.

well, at least he piles the mail, mine tosses it on the sofa and then the cats eat it!

 

[marmalade]

My DH will tell me, "Oh, by the way, I'm out of work clothes" at about 10 o'clock at night. Well guess what buddy, they sure as heck ain't getting done now!

My DH does that too, except it is 7 o'clock in the morning and he has to leave in 15 minutes to go to work.

 

[rlduvall]

My DH takes the pepper shaker with one hand and uses his other hand to pat the bottom of it so that more comes out onto his food. I have no idea why this drives my crazy. In fact, whenever he does it I tell him he better sleep with one eye open because I just might bludgeon him that night.

Other than that, he's a keeper.

The thing that I do that drives him crazy is leave cabinet doors open. I don't even have the excuse of saying I was coming back to close it after I found what I needed. I have no idea why I do that. Maybe I better sleep with one eye open so he doesn't bludgeon me that night. I see a PP has the same issue. Maybe we should unite and create a club "The Cabinet Leaver Openers"!