posted on December 7, 2000 11:14:03 AM new
My husband's worst habit is that every annoying breathing thing...in/out, in/out, geez, I wish he'd knock it off already!!
But seriously, he's my soulmate, the person in this life who makes me whole....&...if only he could "see" life would be perfect....Can drive me crazy sometimes, especially in my house full of men (1 Hubby, 3 sons) that they deal ONLY in the current, here & now...NO thought of tomorrow, planning, organizing...zip, zero, ziltch....I often comment that it my next life I WILL be a man, just I don't have to worry about the "details" anymore!....
My Mom is the one who loves to leave the cabinets open...She also has a nasty habit of eating sans plate....She'll put food right on the counter or the table..doesn't matter a bit to her!...Drives me nuts, but I deal with it cause she's my mom & I love her dearly....
posted on December 7, 2000 11:24:05 AM new
I can only pick one? ROFL!
We are in the process of finally getting this living room painted (five years after we moved in). It took him one whole week to get one (I said ONE) wall wallpapered. OMG. I thought I was gonna kill him. This is a typical thing here...he tells me all about the things he's gonna do, but I have to stock up on firecrackers to get any of them done.
I bite my tongue a lot, because he's a good provider, doesn't drink or cheat or whup on any of us. It could be far far worse.
posted on December 7, 2000 11:39:13 AM new
I love Mr. Nobs, I really do and we've been married almost 34 years now. I think the one thing that drives me bonkers is he absolutely will not ask for directions. When we travel, we will wind up miles from where we are headed because of this inability to ask directions. Being city raised myself - I will ask directions in a NY minute from anyone. I hate wasting time looking for some place and driving all over to find it.
I'm sure that I will think of some things that he does that may be more annoying but off the top of my head this is what I can come up with.
He is, after all, darn near perfect!
posted on December 7, 2000 01:06:01 PM new
I have my own set of tools: screwdrivers, pliers, sockets, hammers, etc., even a boltcutter and hacksaw. My DH is not allowed near any of them. I've found this is the only solution since any tool he touches becomes lost forever.
posted on December 7, 2000 07:26:25 PM new
kerryann, now that would drive me crazy!
seriously, my husband said to me this afternoon after he got home from the mall, that I wasn't doing enough shopping, that someone had to go out and spend money in the store to stimulate the American economy, and he had to do it because I stayed at home all the time instead of going shopping. Basically he said I was working too much on the computer, and then chatting too much on those "chat boards" and not spending enough time shopping!
LOL! my mouth dropped open a little bit and then I shut it, thinking to myself, well I know how to fix that little problem...
I always thought he was a bit eccentric and today he just proved it! LOLOLOL!
as far as annoying things, the remote control /flip thru 50 channel guy thing he does is probably number one. And selective vision about the dishes, he just doesn't seem to see them, they're invisible I guess, only I can see them and therefore clean them up.
posted on December 7, 2000 07:36:38 PM new
He will NOT turn off the shower faucet BEFORE turning off the water. So, when I get ready to take a bath or shower myself (or even to clean the enclosure), my hand all ready under the faucet to test the temperature and my head positioned RIGHT UNDER SAID shower head, SPLATTTTTT! I get zapped with COLD WATER on my head because HE didnt turn off the SHOWER HEAD FAUCET! GRRRRRRRR!!!!!
posted on December 8, 2000 12:26:40 AM new
Gosh, do I have to pick just one?
Here's what I've got to choose from:
1. "Forgetting" to flush the toilet (arggh!!!)
2. Picking his fingernails - the sound drives me bananas
3. Leaving his clothes in the floor
4. Dropping food while he eats, and not even noticing (How can he miss our yorkie constantly monitoring the floor under his chair, watching for escaped food? LOL!)
5. He leaves little whiskers in the sink after shaving too, as someone else mentioned.
6. He uses Skoal (gag) and he spits in the sink and thinks I don't know! Grrr!!! Nasty!!!
7. He's bad about starting projects and not finishing them, too. He wallpapered one of the bathrooms a year (!!!) ago, and STILL hasn't put the trim around the window back up!
Okay, okay. I'll pick #1 as the most annoying. I guess I should look at the bright side and realize how "sweet" he is for leaving me presents. (eeewwww)
Nah ... he's a good guy. He's not perfect (LOL!), but I wouldn't have him any other way.
posted on December 8, 2000 05:24:23 AM new
Hey!!!!!!!!
Is this thread all about what men do to annoy their wonderful saintly wives. Where are all the guys? cowering in the closet so as not to upset the little woman? Where is James Thurber when we need him?
Humanity I love; it's people I can't stand
posted on December 8, 2000 06:49:15 AM new
Well, I did make a comment and pose a question. My post was ignored, perhaps, for reasons upon which I'd prefer not to speculate.
All in all, though, this is a most informative thread; a Mars/Venus precis with a touch of Erma Bombeck. It's almost like being a spy at one of those secret meetings.
Of course I'm not taking notes. Too much insight could lead to one of those insufferable relationship dialogues which I, like most of my gender, am loathe to endure.
-To eliminate a grammatical error up with which I could not put.
posted on December 8, 2000 07:10:29 AM new
"Number 1 thing your spouse does that is annoying" Sounds like "comes home" would cover it for some folks.
One thing I keep wondering: Why are the people who are complaining about slack performance in routine household maintenance and repairs not doing those things themselves? Is it forbidden in their households, or is this a division of labor thing? I can't understand why people would fume for YEARS about what sound like low-skill tasks that could be squared away in an afternoon, so I must be missing something very important...
posted on December 8, 2000 10:09:40 AM new
I wish I could answer that, but what can I say, other than she is perfect. The churn dash is a great reminder of that!!!
posted on December 9, 2000 07:15:23 PM new
I suppose that I could find something. From day to day it changes. I got a new perspective, however, the other day. A friend of mine had to attend a funeral for a second cousin of hers. The young woman (only 28) had had a fatal cerebral aneurysm. She had been divorced, with a young daughter, and had been just recently engaged to a wonderful young man. He actually laid on her coffin and cried all during the memorial service. Very disturbing image for me. I wouldn't want to nitpick with the hubby, then find out too late that it was the last thing he ever heard me say. It's too easy to find fault and then pay a heavy price in guilt.
Something he or she does drives you nuts? Find something YOU do that is annoying to your significant other and modify that behavior. Say "I love you" every day and mean it!
posted on December 9, 2000 07:55:27 PM new
I'm not married
but what REALLY bugs me is: channel surfing...
even if you are not watching, you can hear it!
agh!
posted on December 9, 2000 08:19:01 PM new
We have been married for 28 years this month, and it's better than it was 28 years ago! Why, you ask?
1. He once opened so many drawers in the antique highboy, and left them open, that the chest fell over forward. I left it there-never happened again.
2. When we first got married, he left all his laundry on the floor. I left it there-when he had no clean clothes, he learned to put them in the laundry basket.
3. He used to leave everything in his pockets-until I accidentally (really!) put his wallet AND red ink pen through the wash. He had lots of pink clothes!
As you can see, I broke him of his bad habits by being a lazy wife! Now he's nearly perfect! And I'm still lazy...
posted on December 10, 2000 11:21:16 AM new
My hubby has a nasty habit of picking up things, fiddling with them and then setting them down wherever he happens to be. When it's his "things" I don't care, but I hate it when he does it with mine! Then I can't find it and he has no memory of having it in his possesion. Oh and this is usually related to he's bored and has to make a noise of some sort. Drives me nuts when we're watching t.v!
posted on December 10, 2000 03:47:34 PM new
But seriously-does anyone else's husband do this? Or is it just mine, because he knows it drives me CRAAAZY! When I'm in another room, he starts telling me something, or tells me to look at something. I have to stop what I'm doing and go in there to see what he wants-why can't he come where I am if he wants to talk? A subconscious effort to exert male dominance, maybe?
posted on December 10, 2000 05:48:21 PM new
Just catching up here I realized that Mr. Nobs does another thing that drives me crazy but, luckily we have several TVs in our home. We get about 80 stations with our cable system and my husband is a world class channel surfer. he can spend a whole hour watching 2 minutes of everything.
His not asking for directions and channel surfing are just little annoyances and he is the BEST husband any woman could want and I tell him so EVERY day. If this thread were about the things you LOVE about your spouse, it would take me a long time to list them and a LOOOOOOONG post - we will be celebrating our 34th Anniversary in 3 weeks.
posted on December 10, 2000 06:00:08 PM new
My husband's most annoying habits:
1) Throws his dirty clothes directly BESIDE or ON the hamper but never IN the hamper. I have even left the lid off, I have used plain old baskets and still, he refuses to put his clothes inside. It may be petty but it drives me absolutely crazy.
2)Very close behind is his foul language and behavior when he is working on something in the house. We have saved TONS of money by doing home improvement work ourselves over the past 5 years. However, I wonder if it's worth the cursing I have to put up with when something just doesn't go right. And I can curse up a storm myself but he is just plain evil! However, he does do some beautiful work when he is finished!
Now, my husband insisted I add what annoys him about me:
1)When I sing in the car. Mind you, I don't have a voice like an angel. I just plain suck so listening to me is torture for him. But I love music and singing so he just has to put up with it.
2)Petty but it drives my husband crazy that when I brush my teeth I use hot water. I dont know why that does but I guess he is desperate to find something!
