The little things...

sev112

stimpsonslostson said:

That drive you NUTS! 

I've lived with MrsLostSon for 20+years, we got together as teenagers. I love her & am happily married with two great children... 

But in that whole time I don't think she's EVER put ANYTHING in the dishwasher. She just puts dirty crockery on the worksurface & wanders off. Leaving me to load the dishwasher. 
It eventually drives me crazy. I've mentioned it repeatedly & it never changes. I'm aware that in the grand scheme of things it's relatively minor, but one day there will be a reckoning!!  

Now I've got that off my chest... Anyone else want to vent about "minor" annoyances that might lead to you appearing on Crime Watch? 

You do realise that in all those years there is one simple thing that you do that constantly annoys her, and as a result she has decided to do the dishwasher thing as a deliberate foil to your “failing”.  As soon as you resolve and address your failing, she will miraculously start doing the dishwasher properly.

your challenge, should you wish to accept it, is to work out what has been pissing her off for 20+ years  

Kilgore

scrumhalf said:

Tidying up is a waste of time and effort.

Things just get untidy again, and you have to go through the whole process of tidying only for untidiness to spread again.

Einstein once said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is one definition of insanity. If one of the smartest people in the history of the world thinks that tidying up is insane, who am I to argue with him?

Tidying up is one of the great hallmarks of human civilisation. The constant battle against entropy and desire to impose order, whether that is a cave, an iron age roundhouse, or a semi detached in Eccles.

drpbier

Kalimna said:

On the topic of loo roll. New sheets *must* hang away from the wall. Arrrrrgh. 

YES! I will rehang rolls correctly when I see them hung wrongly. Not only at home, either

Snags

sev112 said:

your challenge, should you wish to accept it, is to work out what has been pissing her off for 20+ years  

No, the challenge is narrowing it down with sufficient accuracy.

FX_Munkee

Snags said:

sev112 said:

your challenge, should you wish to accept it, is to work out what has been pissing her off for 20+ years  

No, the challenge is narrowing it down with sufficient accuracy.

I tried to work this out once, and by a process of elimination got it down to "breathing".

Lestratcaster

I'm not married but I see with my mum and dad the "little things"! 

One is when given a time to leave, say 3pm, at 2:50pm they start saying "let's go now" when there's still 10 minutes left.

Or the other is when you say you're leaving at a certain time, one chooses to do something else and not be ready at the given time. Drives each other nuts haha.

Sassafras

Mine used to give me a hard time for bringing other women home. What a ball-breaker!

munckee

Lestratcaster said:

I'm not married but I see with my mum and dad the "little things"! 

One is when given a time to leave, say 3pm, at 2:50pm they start saying "let's go now" when there's still 10 minutes left.

Or the other is when you say you're leaving at a certain time, one chooses to do something else and not be ready at the given time. Drives each other nuts haha.

Missus munckee gets ready and when we are walking out of the front door inevitably says "oh hold on" and wanders off for a few minutes looking for stuff. 

Lestratcaster

munckee said:

Lestratcaster said:

I'm not married but I see with my mum and dad the "little things"! 

One is when given a time to leave, say 3pm, at 2:50pm they start saying "let's go now" when there's still 10 minutes left.

Or the other is when you say you're leaving at a certain time, one chooses to do something else and not be ready at the given time. Drives each other nuts haha.

Missus munckee gets ready and when we are walking out of the front door inevitably says "oh hold on" and wanders off for a few minutes looking for stuff. 

Also one of my mates is never ready whenever we need to leave, he's always gotta take a shower or be packing up his stuff just when we need to go! Does my head in!

Kilgore

munckee said:

Lestratcaster said:

I'm not married but I see with my mum and dad the "little things"! 

One is when given a time to leave, say 3pm, at 2:50pm they start saying "let's go now" when there's still 10 minutes left.

Or the other is when you say you're leaving at a certain time, one chooses to do something else and not be ready at the given time. Drives each other nuts haha.

Missus munckee gets ready and when we are walking out of the front door inevitably says "oh hold on" and wanders off for a few minutes looking for stuff. 

My missus does a similar thing in the supermarket .everything is loaded on the conveyor belt, the till person is scanning them and the wife says "I've forgotten x, y and z" and disappears for five minutes. 

fretmeister

Here you go:

LuttiS

Dirty Clothes. 
We have a pile in the corner of the room. It's not even in a basket, just a good hearty pile of dirty clothes. When clothes are dirty they are lobbed into the corner and land on this pile. When we put a wash on, clothes are grabbed from this pile and loaded. It's a great system. It works. 
Mrs L is mostly incapable of throwing clothes in a corner.. they go everywhere but the corner. Then she complains that she has no clothes to wear as she DOESN'T RESPECT THE SYSTEM!

scrumhalf

LuttiS said:

Dirty Clothes. 
We have a pile in the corner of the room. It's not even in a basket, just a good hearty pile of dirty clothes. When clothes are dirty they are lobbed into the corner and land on this pile. When we put a wash on, clothes are grabbed from this pile and loaded. It's a great system. It works. 
Mrs L is mostly incapable of throwing clothes in a corner.. they go everywhere but the corner. Then she complains that she has no clothes to wear as she DOESN'T RESPECT THE SYSTEM!

Maybe she just needs lessons in throwing.

John_A

Just repeating what others have said, but having your Mrs load the dishwasher is a bigger problem than her not loading the dishwasher.  Let it go, and be happy that's the level of 'problems' you have

boogieman

We have a tiny utility room, which is basically a cupboard with our washing machine in. Mrs B always leaves the light on in the cupboard and then shuts the door. FFS... why? Does she think the washing machine is afraid of the dark? 

Bridgehouse

boogieman said:

We have a tiny utility room, which is basically a cupboard with our washing machine in. Mrs B always leaves the light on in the cupboard and then shuts the door. FFS... why? Does she think the washing machine is afraid of the dark? 

Ours is... give it 10 mins and it starts whizzing round wildly then makes gurgling noises. 

RearWing

My wife of many years repeatedly tells me that I don't listen to her, I correctly reply with "no I don't, never have, never will", but recently she has started to annoy me by saying, "well, if you don't listen, how come you always reply?" 

I don't know how to deal with this.

sweepy

Don’t get me started about not throwing used teabags away and just leaving them on the Worktop

sev112

RearWing said:

My wife of many years repeatedly tells me that I don't listen to her, I correctly reply with "no I don't, never have, never will", but recently she has started to annoy me by saying, "well, if you don't listen, how come you always reply?" 

I don't know how to deal with this.

Quote from Friends :”I can see your mouth moving, but all is hear is blah blah blah”

Winny_Pooh

My wife is OCD and takes 2hrs50 to shower and get dressed. This is not all. Count your own minor infringements as blessings lads.