What drives you up the wall?

[luckynumber]

Ladies,

Does your other half have a habit/characteristic/mannerism that absolutely drives you crazy?

If so, what is it?

First prize for the most bonkers habit.....

 

[Kaleigh]

Date: 11/8/2009 5:27:21 PM
Author:luckynumber
Ladies,

Does your other half have a habit/characteristic/mannerism that absolutely drives you crazy?

If so, what is it?

First prize for the most bonkers habit.....

My husband is the worst driver on the planet. I mean it. If he gets a ticket, I thank the officer.

 

[exoticisabella]

OOOHHHHH! GUM CHEWING! AAAAHHHHHHHHH

Yes, I feel that strongly against gum chewing. I have a coworker who (thankfully) only works one day a week and I can hear her, overtop of the lobby music, when she''s sitting 10 feet away.

As far as DH, I can''t stand it when he''s so into a movie that his eyes are glossed over, his jaw is hanging open and he''s leaning so far forward in his squishy chair that you''d think he''s about to fall off

.

 

[zoebartlett]

My husband is usually a very calm guy but he gets annoyed at other drivers pretty easily when driving. The other thing that truly drives me crazy is when I''m telling him a story and I''m all riled up about something. He''s SO good at seeing other people''s point of view that many times, he doesn''t just agree with me in my ranting. He calmly plays devil''s advocate and it drives me bonkers. Just agree with me, okay?!

 

[iluvcarats]

My DH is a multi tasking driver

He also is really intense and when he is concentrating on something like tv or the computer he doesn''t hear me. It drives me crazy because I hate repeating myself.

 

[HollyS]

I have to name only one thing that drives me bonkers?

I''ll get back to you. . .

 

[packrat]

How long will anyone continue to read my list of annoyances before growing bored and moving on? I'll condense my soup.

He does not kill spiders right away, no matter how big they are or how close they are to jumping at me. In fact, when I was pg w/London, he took forever to kill one that was outside (and it ended up INSIDE and I had to call my Uncle in hysterics to come kill it) that I typed up a letter to him "from" the spider about how great it was to live at our house and since obviously he was here to stay, maybe JD could show him around town. I thought THAT would get his attention. Nope.

He can't remember where his dirty clothes hamper is. Even tho it's right next to him in his bathroom. He doesn't know where the laundry room is either. Even tho it's 3 feet to the right from his bathroom. I've drawn MAPS even..didn't help.

If we've just pulled out of the driveway, and realize we've forgotten something, he doesn't turn around directly into the next driveway and go back, or even swing back around the block, he drives ALL the way down 2 blocks, over to the corner, back up 2 blocks, down the block, and then a turn onto our street, then we're at our house. Hello? I'd've been back to the house and grabbed my crap and been 40 miles away by then.

 

[Luckyeshe]

Leaving the cupboards open, not wiping down the kitchen after each use or at least at the end of the night, and not hearing me when I''m talking to him when he''s intent on the TV. Beyond that, he''s actually very good!

 

[Hera]

My husband is an angry handyman. Whenever he fixes something, installs something etc., he get angry and frustrated.

When he listens to his headphones so loud he can''t hear me. Something makes me think he''s ignoring me on purpose.

He loves throwing things away and I have to beg him not to sometimes.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Warning: possible TMI/Gross out, read on at own risk.



Mine has an amazing ability to pass gas at the most annoying moments, and often RIGHT UP MY NOSE. Seriously, once we were..um..amorously engaged in a popular numerical activity, and I got one straight up the nostrils.

He also often does it when I''m laying in his lap while we watch TV.

 

[packrat]

bwahahahaha sorry MTG but that made me laugh out loud!

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Date: 11/8/2009 11:28:24 PM
Author: packrat
bwahahahaha sorry MTG but that made me laugh out loud!

Haha, I laughed too the first time, just because it was SO unexpected given what we were doing. Now it just drives me bonkers because I SWEAR he waits until my head is in that area for him to let one loose.

They''re stealth firings too because you don''t hear them coming...

 

[kittybean]

Questionable driving
SNORING
Not hearing a word I''m saying when the game''s on
Getting on my case about running late when he''s ALSO running late!

I''m sure there are more, but it''s late, and I have to get into bed with this snoring buffoon (I mean, DH

).

 

[noelwr]

mine wears the same pants for a week! I will not wear the same pants 2x in 1 week. but I did have a sniff once to make sure he wasn''t ponging out his colleagues at the office, and they actually didn''t smell. I just think it''s weird, but he won''t change.

MakingTheGrade - sorry that you have to live through that! I also have gas problems but I don''t wait to let them rip. mine kind of come out in the middle of my sleep and wakes up my hubby, but then he just gets the giggles. at least mine don''t smell.

 

[radiantquest]

Well lets see...

He loves to give me lame answers. Like if I ask him if he is feeling better he will answer with "Yes and no." What kind of answer is that?! Either you feel better or you don''t!

*Personal*
At night if I go to bed before him he will come in a fondle my rear. Not with any intentions of lovins, just to fondle. It really pi$$es me off. I am almost asleep and then here are huge sausage fingers prodding at my rear. So annoying.

Last, but not least he will lay a pair of pants or a fleece on the bench. When laundry day rolls around I ask if it is dirty. He says that it is not that he only wore then pants to the store or whatever the case may be, but then when he gets dressed again he goes straight to the closet. The pants, fleece, whatever it is remains on the bench until there is a small pile and I am forced to wash them because the kitties may have slept on them covering them with fur.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

One thing: sometimes he whistles when I''m taking my time getting ready to go somewhere. It''s like his hint to hurry up. Rather than obey him, I slam the door and turn on the bathroom fan so I can put on my makeup as SLOWLY as possible.

 

[MonkeyPie]

MTG, OMG! That would be the last time he got any action of that type from me, until he learned some manners. Holy cow, I am so sorry lol.

My husband does two things that drive me bonkers:

1. SEVERE ROAD RAGE. Like the worst I have ever seen. He will lob pennies at the windshields of people that are tailgating him. I am always waiting for the one day he does that to someone that has a gun in the car.

2. He will have a "conversation" with me while watching wrestling or playing WoW, and will later recall none of it. Basically, he wasn''t really listening. Thanks, honey!

 

[Lauren8211]

Ugh. he takes his socks off after work wherever he may be sitting at that moment. there are little sock piles distributed throughout the entire apartment that i have to keep picking up.

it drives me CRAZY but i just deal with it because its one of those stupid things he does without even thinking and its easier for me to just pick them up than bother having an argument about it.

 

[janinegirly]

keeping every scrap of paper! His night table is littered with little pieces of paper, receipts, change. I don''t want to throw away anything b/c who knows, could be something important, but he doesn''t go through it often enough, so it just builds up. Same thing with mail--piles up. Me..I throw out anything that isn''t essential. With him I leave his mail for him to sort, but he doesn''t. So it piles up. When it gets too big, another pile starts somehwere.

 

[Lauren8211]

Date: 11/9/2009 12:48:40 PM
Author: janinegirly
keeping every scrap of paper! His night table is littered with little pieces of paper, receipts, change. I don''t want to throw away anything b/c who knows, could be something important, but he doesn''t go through it often enough, so it just builds up. Same thing with mail--piles up. Me..I throw out anything that isn''t essential. With him I leave his mail for him to sort, but he doesn''t. So it piles up. When it gets too big, another pile starts somehwere.

LOL OMG my DH is the same way! ARGHHH!!!!

 

[Erin]

He asks, Huh? and then answers the question.

Not all the time, but enough that I don''t repeat myself. Makes me grit my teeth. Then there are the times he actually doesn''t hear me but how the heck am I supposed to know the difference?

 

[Smurfysmiles]

chewing his nails down to the knuckle, not literally but you get what i mean
also when he calls me and the radio is blaring and doesnt understand why i cant hear what he''s saying lol

 

[HVVS]

My ex, and these are two reasons he is my ex, had two really bad habits:

Lying and BS-ing. He'd tell me he'd done something, when he hadn't. And he ruined the tires on his mother's Corvette doing stupid stunts and abusing her car, and lied to her about it. Worse yet, twice he BS'd his way into managerial positions for which he was not qualified, then proceeded to p*ss off every single one of his higher-ups as well as every single one of his employees, and was fired from both jobs. I am surprised that someone did not beat the tar out of him. He ended up in a civil service job, the last I heard. Our tax dollars at "loaf," lol.

Not just irresponsible spending, but running out of money and then running up huge credit card debts for his personal fun and "toys" and tools, and hiding it from me, his wife. I only found out when we applied to refinance the mortgage. His credit card debt was over $39,000 as of the day the divorce became final. It was all solely in his name. The judge stuck him with it, since he wanted to keep all of that personal property he'd charged on there.

 

[Haven]

Okay, these are the two biggies for me:

1. DH has a disorder that causes his hands to become extremely dry, and his fingers will actually harden up for periods of time so that they feel like they''re made of stone. Of course, one side effect of this is that he has dry skin that peels. I feel awful for him that this happens, and it''s really pretty bad, but he copes in the most disgusting manner possible: He *bites* the dry skin off of his hands. As in, he puts his hands up to his mouth, and uses his teeth to get the skin off. UGH, I cannot describe how much this grosses me out. I didn''t know he did this for a long time because he doesn''t do it in public, of course.

2. Shortly after we first moved in together I would often find a pair of his boxers folded up and sitting on top of the buffet in the kitchen. It perplexed me for a while. Did he have renegade boxers that jumped from the laundry basket and onto the buffet? Was he anticipating a sudden, unexpected need for a fresh pair of boxers while cooking in the kitchen? I had no idea what was going on, but I always forgot to ask him about it because I''d take those boxers and put them away the minute I saw them. Turns out that he''s developed the habit of setting out his outfit for the next day at night so he doesn''t wake me up. (Nice.) However, he never considers whether he''s going to shower at night or in the morning when setting out his clothes, so he''ll often not need those boxers. So what does he do? Does he put them away in his dresser that is mere steps from the kitchen? No. He just leaves them sitting there on the buffet, a pair of folded boxers, in my kitchen.
Drives me nuts. And he still does it.

 

[HollyS]

Um, okay. After reviewing some of these everyday habits you folks put up with. . . and you STILL love your them

. . . I really don''t need to complain about anything. I''m good.

 

[princesss]

Letting the dog sleep on the bed. BF doesn''t have to wake up before 9. Ever. I, on the other hand, have to wake up at 7:30 at the latest. The dog likes to jump around and bark(seriously, BF told me the other day, "Just imagine you''re trying to go to sleep with bombs going off all around you." Because that''s easier to deal with than a jumping, barking dog at 11:00 at night?????), and then jump directly on you (he has a special fondness for a sport I''ve begun to think of as kidney bouncing). Ow. Then he snuggles up between us and pins down the covers so that if you don''t sleep in EXACTLY the same position ALL NIGHT, you''re freezing. Not. Cool.

To make things worse, the dog bed is right next to our bed. Right next to it. And where does the dog sleep? On my lower back.

 

[Mara]

lol i love some of these!!!

the 'angry handyman' ..YEP. he refuses to let anyone else do work around the house or for me to hire someone, but then he usually complains and curses at whatever he is doing. surely it'd be more benefically MENTALLY if someone else just did it? no, but he says he loves it.

he also is a 'pile creator' and then always says how neat he is. it DOES make it easy to move his pile into his area of the office, that's the only benefit.

lastly, he has a need to make sure the dw is loaded correctly and all the dishes are clean before they go in. its a dishwasher! if dishes are clean when they go in, whats the point. he says the only point of the dw is to STERILIZE the dishes, not wash them. needless to say he loads, unloads and cleans the dishes...every time i try to do it, it's *wrong*.

though...none of these are very bad and actually none of them drive me up a wall. i am really easygoing when it comes to house stuff in general, maybe too easygoing aka lazy....

 

[packrat]

He cuts his nails wherever..living room, so they''re all over the floor and I step on them, or in the bathroom, so they''re all over in the sink and the floor. He will grab a couple qtips to clean his ears..sitting on the couch, and then not throw them away, so they''re sitting on the end table. He does his nasal flushes in the sink-even if I have dishes soaking in soapy water-hey um guess what? I can''t use that water now ya dillhole!

Grrr..I think I might smack him when he comes home tonight, just on principle. hahaha

 

[MagsyMay]

My FI, bless his heart, has some obsessive-compulsive cleaning tendencies. This is clearly not the worst habit to have after seeing some of the quirks above, ha! However, it is to the point that if I so much as take off my shoes by the door or the couch, will full intentions to bring them to my closet shortly, they will be lined up in front of my closet before I even realize he''s done it. It makes me sometimes feel as though I cannot even live in my own home.

He also cannot stand clutter or any type, and while I''m the same, if I have a stack of bills or papers that look important next to the computer, they are there for a reason, i.e. to REMIND me to pay them or to do something! So he goes around tidying up every spare piece of paper anywhere and moves all my things to other places and then I end up forgetting to do things. The best is, when I say "Honey where did you put that bill, student loan document, etc." his response is ALWAYS, "I didn''t move it, I swear" when of course he did!

 

[D&T]

DH tends to drive with frequent tapping on his brakes!