What is THE most annoying thing your spouse/partner/SO does

[juslikagrzly]

and continues to do no matter how much you scream, yell, threaten, nag, etc.?

Mine, hmm......so many to choose from.......

won't ever ever ever rinse out the sink after shaving! Blecchhh---little black hairs everywhere!

[Bronco69]

1. Mine leaves his clothes wherever he happens to take them off.

I can't count the number of times his jeans and shirt are thrown across the back of the dining room chair because he was going to put on sweats and the dining room is on the way to the laundry room.

[Bunny]

2. Well, my ex-SO used to do this:

We didn't have a dishwasher, so he always washed the dishes, bless his heart. But he would never drain the water from the sink. He'd just leave that nasty cold gray water in the sink all daylong! His reasoning was that he could instantly wash up any glasses, cups, spoons, etc. throughout the day. This grossed me out beyond words, and I'd always empty that sink at every opportunity. I tried not to bust his chops about it, though. I was more than happy that he actually did dishes!

[yellowdogintexas]

10. oh mine does that too...he is putting them in to soak, except he

has this tendency not to go back to thekitchen until the gray greasy water has set int.

and he puts every dirty dish he can find in the sink at once and washes them,instead of washing one at a time, so there is all kinds of loose water running all over the place, then sprays them and floods the cabinet top . We call it Lake George

[Bunny]

18. Wow, that just brought back a memory.

He would do the dishes, but always leave a dirty pot or frying pan in the sink to "soak". It would still be sitting there the next morning, with grease and any other debris floating in that nasty dishwater! Usually I would get disgusted and finish it up before I went to bed. What is up with that? Either DO the dishes, or don't. But DO NOT leave them sitting in the sink all night!!!!!!

Sorry, I didn't mean to freak out! That was a recovered memory that just came upon me! Did I mention that he's my EX-SO? :silly:

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. He chews ice...loudly.

I guess that makes me lucky. :hi:

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Not exist

She's so selfish, she doesn't even exist.

Damn her!

--p!

[Borgnine]

13. And damn you for beating me at my response.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. whistles, particularly in the morning ..and I am not a morning

person.

Now he is a good whistler but what really drives me nuts is that he sort of roams from one song to another like the Sweeney Sisters used to do on SNL and it makes me nuts.

he also sings in the grand old MightyMouse opera style,

and just generally sings and butchers the lyrics which also drives me nuts.

I am so non anal about so many things but I guess song lyrics are a hot spot for me.


ohyeah, he is a backseat driver of Olympic caliber

[The empressof all]

12. Whistling should be grounds for divorce

It is the single most irritating thing someone can do indoors around other human beings. The second most irritating thing is wearing a hat in-doors. Drives me up a fricken wall.

Of course my SO does both.

[InvisibleTouch]

26. Dead-of-morning cheerfulness...

...should be grounds for justifiable homicide. I'm not even conscious until I've had my first cup of coffee. Last thing I can stand is someone chatting at me brightly, or, gods forbid, whistling! Hold off until the blood starts circulating. Say, till early afternoon.

[yellowdogintexas]

30. morning people always marry night people, didn't you know

that?

[intheflow]

6. Works for Da Man.

But you know, Da Man pays very well, and my man has kids to feed. :shrug:

[trof]

7. CAN NOT PUT THE TOPS BACK ON THINGS!

It is a physical and mental impossibility for her.
The peanut butter jar will have the top lightly cross-threaded.
How many people do you know who have had to toss a 3/4 full jar because it's gone rancid due to air exposure?

The Tabasco cap will be "sitting" on top of the bottle, but not screwed on. That's why we have pink spots on the kitchen ceiling from when I picked up the apparently capped bottle and shook it...

I could go on and on.
I've learned to carefully check all lids, cover, caps, etc. now.
It's a sickness that just bugs the shit out of me, but I've learned to live with it.
She has many other endearing qualities.
But JESUS!
What is so freaking hard about putting the top back on something?

[realisticphish]

8. she

doesn't exist. And you know, that is JUST like her to do that :mad:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Separate sinks in the bathroom is a MUST.

That is a non-negotiable. I will NOT share a sink with the man.

As for most annoying things, I guess the fact that he sounds like Darth Vader having an asthma attack when he sleeps and that's NOT snoring. When snoring he sounds like a herd of rutting mule deer. It's not pretty and you can forget about sleeping.

But I'd have to say the #1 most annoying thing is that he is a total neat freak and it drives me crazy. He gets upset over one dirty utensil in the sink. If you turn from one kitchen counter to another and you don't put the peanut butter back IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU ARE DONE WITH IT, he will grab it, brandish it at you, and demand, "Were you done with this????"

He has improved over the years, granted, but damn. "Why is this here?" "What is that? Is that a spot on the floor?" "What's wrong with this counter? What is this on the counter????" "Are these clean or dirty?" "Has the dishwasher been run yet?" "That table is dirty." "LOOK at this refrigerator."

[Starlight]

11. He's generally not an annoying person,

but it really bugs me when he drinks water out of a glass & puts in back in the cupboard. With a tiny amount of tell-tale water left in the bottom. :puke: He insists it's still "clean." I say it has cooties all over it and needs to go in the dishwasher. :spank:

[New Earth]

15. lol i do that

but i at least rinse it out real quick before i put it back.

[mermaid]

24. I Must Admit...

I drink milk directly from the carton....

[New Earth]

14. he always leaves the bathroom cabinet door open

it pisses me off. i mean the medicine cabinet (w/mirror) over the sink. it is ALWAYS open. it's one of the sliding door types. it's so annoying! i really don't wanna see his deodorant and shaving cream every time i go into to wash my hands or brush my teeth. and it's frustrating when i forget to close it for him and a guest goes in to use the bathroom.

[flaminbats]

16. mine sleeps upside down, then accuses me of doing this!!

I wake up from terrible day-mares just to see my love standing over me with a large hammer and wooden stake. "just foreplay" she says..

Sometimes we'll sleep above the ground, and yet she calls it "strange to sleep with the dead." :crazy:

[Bunny]

21. HAHAHAHA!

Good one! :toast:

[China_cat]

17. After 31 years of telling him

that I DON'T LIKE BLUEBERRY YOGURT, he will bring me blueberry yogurt. It isn't just trying to push my buttons, either, because he gets really upset when I refuse to eat it and wants to know why I didn't tell him that I don't like it.

31 years...it should have sunk in by now.

[prolesunited]

19. Nothing

He's perfect in every way. (Plus, he reads DU :P )

[Magrittes Pipe]

37. He hangs out with me.

That's pretty bad.

[bearfan454]

20. Well

Mrs bearfan wears sweat pants in the summer and tells me it's hot and cranks the AC down. She wears shorts in the winter and tells me it's cold and bumps the heat up. I have told her - you know when it is cold you are supposed to wear heavy clothes and when it is hot you are supposed to wear shorts. I guess there a lot worse things.

[loudestchick]

22. The accumulation of coffee cups in the bathroom, he takes them in

there but can't take them back to the kitchen? And the beer bottles on the end table...he had to get up to get another one... why not take the empty to the recycling bin? Why?

[mermaid]

23. My Mom Drives Me Crazy With This One...

Since I will soon be sharing a house with my mom once again...thank you, George W Bush!! I guess this qualifies.

My mom puts any and all leftovers into emptied Sour Cream containers, which are opaque, and you can't see thru them to know what is in them...and she does not label or date them...

To this day, I am AFRAID to open sour cream containers in her fridge unless they still have the original plastic seal, because then I KNOW it's sour cream.

Otherwise, I never have ANY IDEA what might reach out of the container and grab my throat when I open it...

[Padraig18]

25. It's VERY minor, but...

... he buffs his fingernails 3-4 times a week. He has lovely hands and takes good care of them, but it just seems a BIT excessive, some times.

:shrug:

[Bunny]

27. Does he clip his toenails in front of you?

With the clippings flying everywhere? I've always found that kinda gross, and tried to do it in private. I'm not really sure why, either, but it grosses me out!

[Padraig18]

28. No, he's very good about that.

:)

[Starlight]

45. That drives BF crazy, too.

He also gets upset when I trim the cats' nails in the living room. He thinks I should do it in the bathroom over the sink. I think I should do it wherever the cats will allow me to do it.

[TN al]

29. Hmmmm...

... I have no complaints about my wife. Everything about her is beautiful. Her hair is beautiful, her eyes are beautiful, her voice is beautiful, and she is so considerate. She knows how beautiful I think her voice is so she spares no opportunity for me to hear her voice. Every minute we are together, or so it would seem.

[bearfan454]

31. Nice groundwork

;-)

[erinlough]

33. He says,"I'm going to bed"

and then takes 45 minutes to get there. In the mean time I have just fallen asleep and I am awakened by him getting into bed and I have a hard time getting to sleep. Since that is literally the only thing he does that bugs me it is OK.

:hi:

[CornField]

32. Ignores conflict

If we are having a discussion and there is tension, he likes to walk off -- take a drive -- go to sleep -- avoid the moment.

It drives me (scrappy southern woman) totally insane!

[Zorro]

34. Sets the thermometer to 58 in the winter

She thinks that's a "healthy" temperature, and suggests I wear a sweater in the house if I'm cold. She thinks she heard Jimmy Carter make that recommendation 25 years ago during the energy crisis, and despite my best efforts to convince her he recommended setting the thermometer to "68" degrees, she still cranks it down another 10.

She's very conservative in the traditional sense...doesn't like to waste energy or resources. She's always turning out lights, shutting off the running water while I'm brushing my teeth, recycling newspapers, bottles, and cans.

I've learned to live with it...it's actually a lot more preferable to the other extreme.

[SW FL Dem]

35. Chews his gum like a cow chewing its cud and talking with food

in his mouth. It drives me nuts to have to listen to that. Luckily, after 20 years, I just have to give him a look and he gets the message.

[Magrittes Pipe]

36. Her farts smell like rotting corpses.

No, wait -- that's me.

Never mind.

[fleabert]

38. He has a new one...

he smacks his food! It's like I live with a seven year old! I have told him that it is not a good habit, since it is disgusting and he does business dinners all the time, but he just gets pissed at me for saying anything. I HATE mouth noises, like in commercials where the kids eat cereal and slurp and smack...ARGGGGHHH! Gross!

I, on the other hand, am OCD about the stupidest stuff, like stray hairs on clothing, eyelashes on the cheek, a smudge or out of place eyebrow hair. It drives him crazy just to see my hand coming towards his face! :-) I can't stop myself.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

39. Refuses to eat supper until right before bed,

because the minute he is finished eating his eyes start to close and it is off to beddy bye. We never eat supper together because I want to eat at a decent hour. I cook our food and he heats up his portion right before bedtime. Of course a lot of foods are ruined in this process, so that also pisses me off. But I am pretty annoying myself, so I let it pass! :)

[graywarrior]

40. Snips his eyebrows over my toothbrush then won't talk to me

for days if I mention it.

He also empties the trash but will NEVER EVER replace the trash can liner.

[VOX]

41. She leaves her shoes all over the house. Not clothes, just shoes.

If I don't watch where I'm walking (and carefully), I'll trip over a pair. And many is the time that I have nearly broken my neck stumbling over her shoes.

There are shoes in the den, shoes in the living room, shoes in the dining room...:grr:

A couple of weeks ago, a pair of shoes materialized on the sink (!), sitting on a paper towel. She said that was "to remind" her to clean them. After three days of shoes on the sink, I moved them to the service porch. I don't know if they ever got cleaned.

I love her desperately and dearly, and for all time, but...SHOES!!! :nuke:

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. reprehensor does this too...

Only his are mostly in one spot. His Canadian instincts kick in to leave all shoes by the front door. Sometimes he'll have 3 or 4 pairs there.

Only his shoes are the heavy hiking boot kind, and I have arthritis in my toes, so I have to really be careful where I step, otherwise I jam my foot into them, and my big toe throbs for an hour or more.

Also, he refuses to dress up for almost anything. I've tried to convince him that a "Stompin Tom Connors" T-shirt and jeans is not always appropriate, but it ain't happening.

I adore him though, so this is all small potatoes stuff.

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[Starlight]

44. I admit it. Our apartment looks like a shoe store exploded.

It drives BF crazy, too. I have a LOT of shoes. And I don't really have a good place to store them. And I keep buying more. I need to stop. :spank:

[qnr]

43. She /never/ apologizes. Except for silly things that don't need

apologies. Which means that things tend to build up.

[diatribal]

46. You guys are lucky.

I make clicky noises when I swallow, think farts are made for sharing, snore like a engine braking semi truck, leave stuff on the counter, put the new tp roll on top of the toilet tank instead of hanging it up, and will fill a dishwasher, but never turn it on.

She just jiggles her foot when she's trying to go to sleep, which shakes the bed a little bit. Which just by a minute amount knocks her out of sainthood for putting up with me.