Signifigant Other's Annoying Habits

XO_Princess · #1 04-11-2002, 01:25 PM

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.

Anyone else care to share??

xo_sue · #2 04-11-2002, 01:33 PM

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

#3 04-11-2002, 01:34 PM

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.

-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.

Periwinkle · #4 04-11-2002, 01:45 PM

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.

SSS1365 · #5 04-11-2002, 02:55 PM

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

aephi alum · #6 04-11-2002, 03:10 PM

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.

(excuse the mushiness

)

ladyj39 · #7 04-11-2002, 03:19 PM

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!

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....

justamom · #8 04-11-2002, 04:10 PM

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!

Eirene_DGP · #9 04-11-2002, 04:27 PM

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.

KillarneyRose · #10 04-11-2002, 04:38 PM

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

33girl · #11 04-11-2002, 05:04 PM

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.

juniorgrrl · #12 04-11-2002, 06:37 PM

-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

ZTAngel · #13 04-11-2002, 09:14 PM

- 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".

SuperSister · #14 04-11-2002, 09:35 PM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
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.

OMG! I thought mine was the only one! My hunny never makes his like this and when he sleeps at my place (I leave much earlier than he does in the morning) and I ask him to make my bed he knows better than to try to pull that . . . but he still leaves the sheets all wrinkled, the comforter hanging more off the side of the bed at one end than the other, and the stuffed animals just kind of thrown on. One day we even had 'how to make Emily's bed' lessons.

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

Periwinkle · #15 04-13-2002, 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by SuperSister

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.

Emmi

Ewwwwww...lol.