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Signifigant Other's Annoying Habits
Well, I thought of this thread since Mr. XO_Princess has been staying at my place for the past couple of days, and though I worship the ground he walks on, some of his habits drive me crazy!! For instance:
-He is physically unable to hang up his wet towels. They must go on the floor. -He is also physically unable to turn lights off when he leaves a room. It's a funny sight-he leaves rooms, and I'm running behing him turning off the lights. -Finally-this is the worst-he can't shut the microwave doors or kitchen cabinets after he's opened them. I'm always running after him closing them. One time, as a joke, he left all the drawers and cabinets in his kitchen open, and when I got to his place, I about died. The first thing I did, after kissing him hello, was run straight to the kitchen and close everything...while he died laughing.:mad: Anyone else care to share?? :) :) |
The hallway light- I must have it on at all times or the other rooms seem too dark- he turns it off all the time. It is now a contest between the two of us of how long I can keep it on to him shutting it off!
Leaving dishes in the sink... just put them in the diswasher please! Cell phone- whenever he is bored driving- he'll call me. I should love the fact that he is thinking of me but A. He is just bored and B. I can't take the $100.00 cell phone bills anymore! But yesterday he told me how skinny my legs looked and that made my day (considering I have a 7 1/2 month old baby in the my tummy!) - so I can put up with any annoyances :) |
Alrighty, you all know that I'm still single..but here are some of the things that Mr. OTW used to do to annoy the isht out of me:
-He also had a problem with hanging up the wet towels. -He'd wait till the absolute last minute (like when he ran out of underwear) to do his laundry. -He'd also wait till the last minute to fill up my gas tank. Usually he'd wait till my little light went on. -He thought farting in the car with the windows rolled up and the A/C on full blast was a funny thing. And he'd lock the windows so I couldn't roll em down. :mad: -He never remembered to put the toilet seat back down. I'd wake up to use the bathroom at 3 in the morning and I'd have accidents. -He'd rather go out and spend $$$ at a restaurant instead of staying home for a cooked meal. When he did, Top Ramen and frozen dinners were his meals of choice. -When he sleeps he moves around a lot and usually the bed sheets would come off the corners. He'd wait till I got irritated before he went and fixed em. -Two words: PLAYSTATION 2. :mad: |
Making notes and lists -- He is always writing thoughts, ideas, things to do, etc. on notes and lists so he won't forget. While I love being organized, its annoying sometimes to reduce everything to a note or list and then give it higher priority over other matters that may crop up spontaneously.
I'm more of a spontaneous person, while he is more structured. Considering his career field he prolly needs to "keep a good accounting" more than I do, but in any case I find myself fretting about things being on or off his list...lol. |
My boyfriend only does a few things that annoy me:
-He takes longer to get ready than any guy I've ever known! -He watches sports a lot and I practically get ignored -He is so overprotective of his car.... he sees dirt that isn't there! -He talks a lot... sometimes it's quite obvious to me that other people are wishing he'd shut up |
My husband definitely has his annoying little habits...
- He cracks his feet/toes all the time. - He is physically incapable of putting the toilet seat down, to the point where it's now ingrained in me to check the seat first because it's probably up. - He is also incapable of turning off the light in our walk-in closet. - He doesn't like having the bed's flat sheet tucked in under the mattress. And he's a blanket thief. Brrrr! - He snores. He also insists that I snore, even though I know I don't. - He *always* wants to watch TV in the evenings. Sometimes I want to go online, read, or work out rather than watch some insipid TV show just because it's on... but he whines... "I'm so loooonely!" I could go on and on :) but even with all his quirks and imperfections, he's still my sweetie. :D (excuse the mushiness :) ) |
I can sympathize with all of you! Here are some things that my boyfriend does:
*He would rather spend money on new underwear instead of doing laundry *He turns into a zombie when he plays Playstation 2 and Gamecube. He even found a bar here in SF that has video games!:mad: Whenever we go to the mall, we HAVE to stop at every game store to look at the exact same titles and never buys anything! *He was a wrestler in college, so anytime he gets drunk with his friends, they play-wrestle wherever they are! (In the street, at a bar, in my house, etc.....) *He doesn't leave his towels on the floor, but he does drape them on his bed so it leaves wet marks on his comforter. (I don't get it!) * He tries to kiss me after his dog slobbers on his face. UGH! But even with all that, I love him.... :D |
Can I play too?
He makes every conceivable noise the human body can orchestrate from the moment he wakes to the point we enter the office. Socks all over the house and dirty laundry INCHES from the hamper. He is THE biggest baby if he has a cold or a stubbed toe! He's watching the food channel and spends a lot of money buying ingrediants...BUT DOESN"T FOLLOW THE RECIPE SO IT TASTES LIKE...well EVERYthing tastes the same-BAD! He made a goose stuffed with 40--40 big fat PRUNES...I STILL said it was "great". GARLIC!!! and MORE GARLIC!!! (heath nut) If I'm gone too long he worries and calls to see what I'm doing if I'm OK. When the kids were little and I'd visit Mom he would call and say, "The KIDS miss you..." He literally chases me around the house (when HE'S bored) I can be scrubbing the toilet and it will get him going! I'm getting new running shoes when he retires. He wears the WORST clothes just "around"and saves everything else "for good". I'm telling you I FINALLY threw out some shirts from THE 80's!!! This is the honest TRUTH!!! I've TRIED!!! The truth is his list on ME is probably TWICE as long! Of course I love him...he's my Sugar Bear! |
He has a lot of annoying habits so I'll just name a few.
-He only bathes once a day. I shower at least twice a day. (You have to in this much humidity) -He walks in another room whenever someone calls for him and takes my cordless like he is having some top secret conversation when I know it is just his boys. -He tells a lot of little white lies to his friends. Why lie about small stupid stuff? -He chews this nasty looking callous on his thumb when he gets nervous. UGH! -He wastes money eating every meal out insead of buying groceries. (At $5 per day that comes out to $140 per month and $1680 per year) -Cleaning is out of his vocabulary he has futon boxes in his apt from january!! (he will literally get mad if you ask him to clean) -He never takes out the trash -Cleaning out the shower is something only women do as far as he is concerned -He claims he has enough money to buy a car, but he would rather have his roommate take him to work. |
Lt.Cmdr. KillarneyRose has the distinction of being the only person in over 150 years to graduate from the Naval Academy without having learned how to make a bed.
His version of making the bed consists of simply pulling the comforter up and over the mangled sheets and blanket and tossing the pillows wherever they may land. I don't even bother to ask anymore :rolleyes: |
I hope some of the guys chime in before we get accused of man bashing....
but anyhoo, here are some of Mr. 33's annoying quirks. -He opens the chip bag with his teeth. Is this supposed to impress me? -He takes the last pop-tart out of the wrapper then puts the wrapper back in the box!!! Plus he doesn't throw boxes away if he finishes whatever was in them. (This is in direct contrast to Dad33, who if there was one sleeve of crackers left would put the crackers in the drawer and throw the box in the trash - drove Mom33 nuts.) -He doesn't eat all day and then gets cranky because of it. Those are really the only ones that drive me insane - I freely admit that I have more quirks than he does. |
-He takes longer than I do to get ready
-He doesn't shave everyday - prickly Josh sucks! -He never brings his cell phone inside places with him - which is hard when I'm trying to reach him Overall, though, Josh is the coolest person ever. And thankfully, a lot of our interests and habits match up, so neither of us gets annoyed. For example, he doesn't have to drag me into video game stores - I'm leading the way :) |
- Everything is a process for him. I'll be trying to get him out the door bc we need to be somewhere in 5 minutes. He finds 4 other things that he needs to do. Just to get him to tie a shoe lace takes him ten minutes!
- He never cleans his room. His room is an obstacle course and I always seem to trip over something that is lying on his floor when I get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. - He is a bed hog. I have woken up numerous times with my face smashed into his wall. - He talks one way to me and another to his friends. His voice is a lot higher when he speaks with me and he'll be like, "Hey honey. How was your day?" When his fraternity brothers call it's, "Yo dawg! What's up?!" - According to him, he has no flaws. - He enjoys tackling me. He thinks it's funny that when he pins me down, I cannot move. Hello??? He's over 100 pounds heavier than me!!! - When he's eating, he doesn't talk. We'll be in a restaurant and seems that all the other couples are having an initimate discussion while the only word my boyfriend utters is, "Yummm". |
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He's also VERY much a college student and this is sooooo gross . . . He'll take dishes from the cafe. He will then use those dishes (without washing them) until they can't be used anymore. Those dishes will then sit in his room for about a week before he just returns them to the cafe. He is also incapable of washing dishes without leaving a speck of food somewhere on each dish. When we get married we definitely need a dishwasher. Emmi |
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He's now my ex, but still had all the habits!
-He would do the walk-and-strip; he'd come home, walk in the door, and change out of work clothes and leave them wherever they came off... all over the house! -He also left clothes all over the floor, right next to the hamper! Then compained when he had to do 3+ loads just to get clean clothes. -He took longer than me getting ready. -He could not leave the house, even at 3 in the morning unless fully dressed (read: no pj's or sweats, he always had to look good..) -He would talk to me one way, his family another, and friends yet another! -He would tell little white lies to his frends, which would then get big, and they would always ask me about it! (I couldn't keep his stories straight!) -He would do the "top secret conversation" phone thing as well, even if it was his parents! |
I am howling at this entire thread, and feeling much better about my husband (though I love him madly anyway). He's guilty of most of what's been written except the secret phone conversations, though sometimes he does make pathetic efforts to talk in code to his fraternity brothers when they ask him questions he just can't answer with me in the room. Here are a couple of extras worth highlighting:
- World's Worst Sick Person (alluded to by one other person, I believe). He can have the exact same cold as I do, but while I'm taking care of the house and kids like normal he's stretch out prone on the couch, with his "I'm SOOOOO miserable" face plastered on, and says the following at least once every hour: "I've never had a cold this bad before." (This prompted me during his last cold to comment on how odd it was that, during the 15 years of our relationship, he'd never actually had a mild cold.) He then traces the illness's progress through his body. (Example: "Well, it started in my lower chest, and then it just moved up to my throat ....") But the most annoying thing is when he tries, repeatedly, to determine WHO gave it to him, like someone did it on purpose. Makes me crazy. - Brings up the mail, opens it, reads it, and then just leaves it on the table, all out of the envelopes, for the Mail Fairy to sort through and discard as appropriate. Same with newspaper. - Tears the little paper tags off his work shirts when they get back from the cleaners, and never, ever, ever throws them away. Same principle applies to cleaner plastic bags and empty wire hangers. !!! However, please note that if I leave a speck of anything, much less a full item of clothing (such as a sweater) in my car, he has a cow because the car looks "so messy." This is leading me to consider taking all of the clothes he throws on the floor in our bedroom and putting them into my car, which just might prompt him into caring about them (heck, even NOTICING them) enough to put them into the hamper. But as a friend of mine says, this is the price we pay for being straight! |
When my son became potty trained, I taught him to put the seat down. Hubby then taught him that boys NEVER put the seat down.
He doesn't know how to work the toilet paper holder. If the roll is empty, he gets a new one out and leaves it on the sink until I can change the rolls. Is it really that difficult? Every clock in our house is set at a different time. It's 30 minutes later in my bedroom than it is in the living room. He works swing shift and uses 2 alarm clocks when he works days. Again, 2 clocks = 2 different times. One is digital, the other is a wind up. He snores loudly, and that coupled with the ticking clock tend to keep me awake most of the night... even if I break down and use ear plugs. Then, he wakes up and wonders why I didn't get up with him. Please, let me sleep another 15 minutes, because the little one will get up as soon as you close the door. He's a bed hog. While he's sound asleep, I battle to keep from hitting the floor. If not, he has rolled on top of me in his sleep and that means I can barely breathe. Before we got married, he knew how to pick up after himself. Now, he can't remember how to take his clothes from the bedroom to the laundry chute in the next room. When I put his jeans away after doing the laundry, he complains the same day of not having any clean pants. Why? Because he didn't bother to look where they go. I am not allowed to run the sweeper or the dishwasher when he's home. |
oh man! Hes the ex now, but were still friends and he STILL annoys me.
-he takes twice as long as I do to get ready for ANYWHERE!! we could be going to taco bell, and he has to take 30 min to get ready -if someone splashes water on his car he has to go IMMEDIATELY to a carwash to get it washed. when we drove from home to school, he would wash his car before we got on the turnpike, and then, when we got off of the turnpike and into town!!! -he talks on his cellphone during dinner in a restaurant! -oh yeah, he had the timezone thing too, EVERY ONE OF HIS CLOCKS ARE ABOUT TEN MIN OFF FROM EACH OTHER!!!! -he knows im a neat freak, so he purposely does little things to test me, like strategically leaving candy wrappers or half filled glasses around my house!!! but still, he is a good freind, and i know i do things that annoy him too!!! |
Hey Y'all!!! Are we all married to the same guy!!! As I was reading,
Hubby comes to me and says, "Does this look swollen?" Heck NOOOOO it looks the same as the last 20 years! Right now Hubby has a dental problem (which in and of itself is a joke) and my son has strep (sp?) throat. I'm running around making "soft" food like a Banshee! Water here-pills there-ice-pack now-Sprite later-Man oh man-heaven help us if I ever get sick!!! It's nice to experience the "healing" power of universal humor! Gotta run-Laundry buzzing (clean up those germs) tooth brushes boiling-Lysol spraying and temperatures (mine especially) rising! |
oh the things mr. blue does
i love him but:
he hangs his wet, dripping towel in the bathroom when he stays with me he doesnt make the bed... that bothers me he leaves toothpaste in the sink... yuck he drives my car and changes all the settings and doesnt change them back for me he stays in the bathroom for very long time he must watch his espn, his law and order, and his martin and he's a majorly cautious driver and ... passenger |
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and he likes to use my toothbrush when he leaves his home
and he only washes one load of clothes with the whites, darks, and lights all together... when we live together, he will not, and i say WILL NOT, wash any of my clothes... |
All right, I really hope Mr. Achtung doesn't see this...the thing about him that REALLY annoys the fire out of me is that he never comes to any of my sorority socials. I invite him weeks in advance and he says he'll be there (he lives out of state and hs no car), but then at the last minute something always happens and I'm "that girl who never has a date" again!! I realise that most guys don't plan things as meticulously as girls (in my experience, anyway), but can't he please show a little initiative by not waiting until the Thursday before to ask someone for a ride? Come on! It happens *every* time--Fall Formal, his ride backed out at 5:00 the day of and he didn't call me with the bad news 'til 8:30 (he was probably apprehensive, and rightly so...I was maaaaaaaaaaaaaad); he promised he'd go to our Valentine Semi-formal but then couldn't get off work; plus countless other date parties that I've either gone alone to or sat at home. He did make it to Spring Formal but not without tons of rigmarole...and the kicker is, he always says he's coming then backs out so late that I don't have time to find someone else to go with! Ooooh, my face is turning red just thinking about it...
Why do men have such an aversion to making p-l-a-n-s?? |
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