Petty Annoyances

[mommyatty]

I swear DS poops in every public bathroom we pass. WTF, kid? Typed as I stand in the Cracker Barrel bathroom probably letting my food get cold.

[mustardseed2007]

I was trying to nap yesterday afternoon and my kids woke me up wanting me to be the teacher in their pretend school "because I'm the smartest one." Of course that's precious and they're precious. Of course.
I told that to my running partner this morning and she was like "oh how sweet! Of course you got up and played teacher with them didn't you?!?!"

Um yeah...I definitely did not tell them to bother their dad. Definitely did not do that. You never get this time back blah blah blah....

[2chatter]

I’m also winning MOTY here. DD was complaining about swim lessons and I kind of blew her off thinking she was being a bit high maintenance but did call the center. Turns out her whining was probably accurately placed - she’s in a beginner two mixed level class and they think after seeing her in the water yesterday she’s an advanced 3 and we’re going to reassess and move her.

I’m annoyed with myself and also with them - We discussed when I enrolled her that she needs backstroke refinement and help on her third side breath. They taught the kids to jump in after bobbing yesterday. Bit of a disconnect.

[mommyatty]

Just checked into my hotel in Midtown Manhattan. I have to give a speech at a conference. I brought my fav dress so I feel super-confident while speaking. And the closet looked like this. Hanging up is a short jacket I wore on the plane. WTF. Why bother hanging a rod if it’s so low you can’t hang anything from it? Luckily they moved me to a room with an actually usable hanging bar. My dresses are still folded at the bottom a little, but not like this!

[covergirl82]

mommyatty, I bet that closet was designed by a man, LOL! Good luck with your speech!

[twinmomma]

My annoyance: DH does not pick up the bathmat or close the shower curtain after he gets out. He literally just gets out of the tub and wanders away. Every single morning I go behind him and drape the bathmat over the edge of the tub and shut the curtain. This mainly bothers me because our only shower is in the first floor, center of the house bathroom. So it just makes the entire house seem messy with a towel on the floor and bottles of shampoo and junk on display.

[rere]

For some reason, DS cannot seem to keep his socks on his feet. His socks seem to involuntarily fly off his feet in random places. I just found 3 socks in the couch. 3. Why are they not on his feet? And who has 3 feet?

[mae0111]

We just had closets redone and DH and the carpenter were puzzled as to why I needed a section of rod without a second rod underneath. No matter how many times I said “for dresses” they would forget and revert back to full double poles. I had to finally show DH clothes and say “where will I hang this so that your shoes aren’t always on it??”

My annoyance: DH does not put his dishes in the dishwasher. Nor will he put them in the sink. He puts them on the counter NEXT TO the sink. Also, I have been stepping over his jacket for the past 8 days. It’s on the kitchen floor. Eight. Days.

My other annoyance: sunblock. Hate it.

[2chatter]

I can totally relate to the messy DH thing. Mine left shorts and a T-shirt in the downstairs bathroom last Monday. Still there. I warned a friend Tuesday that I’m working with the kids on taking laundry upstairs and she came out and said something about a chore chart for DH - I hadn’t realized they were his, not the kids’! This morning he added a towel to the stack.

DH also “tidies” - ie throws away anything that isn’t his or shoves it somewhere it doesn’t belong . Two weeks ago he threw away a 15 page new patient packet I had completed and set by my keys before going to bed. Then DS dumped cereal and milk in the same trash can so I had to reprint and fill it all out again. I SO want to throw away his stuff to prove a point but it would send him into a tailspin and I cannot be that mean or passive aggressive but I dream about it sometimes.

[mellym]

Hanging up the bath mat to dry is a thing? My BFF does that too and it always made me wonder...

All the shoes. They're usually left in the middle of the hallway by the back door for me to trip on. How can I get the kids to put their shoes in their basket if DH doesn't even do it?

mae0111, I can appreciate your patience and perseverance. Keep sticking it out.

[xctsclrx]

We don't hang the bathmat in our bathroom either. We do close the curtain though.

2chatter , oh man I would have been livid. When you come up with a solution to this please let me know so I can implement it. My husband keeps using our kitchen counter as his filing cabinet and he hoards paper work. Doesn't throw anything away and claims most things have to be shredded. He might be getting a shredder for fathers day. Then I will clean the kitchen, but don't know what I can and can't throw away so we still have a stack of paperwork. Drives me crazy.

Right now my petty annoyance is when people try to have a texting conversation with me while I am driving to pick them up. HELLO I am driving I can't answer your messages while driving. Especially in an unfamiliar city.

[twinmomma]

mellym, I want to hang it up, because it's the main bathroom in our living space. So people go in the bathroom with their shoes on, and track dirt on the bath mat. Totally grosses me out. If it was a separate bathroom away from the main area, I wouldn't care so much.

[polecat8]

DH has a habit of not putting things back when he done using them. For example, he pulled out a screwdriver to fix one of the kid's toys. He left it in the middle of the living room floor when he was done. Then he got mad because DS1 picked it up and started using it to take apart his toys.
DH and the kids also like to take their shoes and socks off and leave them in various places. I finally got DD and DS1 to put their shoes and socks in their rooms, but I still find DH's dirty socks in random places.

[covergirl82]

DH doesn't put his nighttime snack dishes in the dishwasher. He sets them next to the sink, which is literally on top of the dishwasher. Or, like this morning, he uses up the rest of a box of cereal for the kids' breakfast and rather than throwing away the plastic bag insert and breaking down the box (which takes all of 30 seconds to do both), he sets it on the counter next to the sink. And he's leaving on a work trip today and won't be back until Thursday, so there's no way I can just leave it there that long.

ETA:  I just read your post, mae0111.  Apparently we have the same H when it comes to dishes.

[sandandsea]

I wasted 45 minutes looking for my key yesterday. Ds2 (almost 2yo) put it under my pillow. Why can’t he just leave things alone!?!?!

[mustardseed2007]

My son could only find 1 shoe today. He went to school in his pool shoes. Which are keens so I guess it's ok. Still.

[186momx]

Still no dishwasher. The warranty company is being a scheduling nightmare. I can choose the day but not the time and they won't let me know the time window 4 hours until 5pm the night before. The next day I can give up my entire day is the 22nd. It will be 5 weeks of no dishwasher by then!

[supertrooper1]

There was an annoying mom at the birthday party DS went to yesterday. She talked non stop, most about how her family hunts/gathers/grows most of their food, including pot. She also mentioned 3 or 4 times that she went to a softball camp when she was in high school. She was in her 30's.

[traveltheworld]

As I was tidying up last night, I found 6 pairs of socks scattered around the house: 3 for DH, 2 for DS, and 1 for DD.

[waverly]

OMG the socks. So many socks. All I do is tell them to pick up their socks.

The fact that DD never wants to get out of bed and is yelly in the morning. DS never brushes his hair or teeth without reminding or voluntarily wants to get in the bath. It takes me 1500 tiny steps to get everyone ready in the morning. Morning drop off in general because DD is doing swim lessons, so I have to drop DS at camp and DD at the pool. Why can't the counselors take her to the pool??? They are just sitting there anyway waiting for her, and there are only 2 kids in swim class.

We have a rug rather than a bathmat, so I don't have to worry about that except DH always gets the bathroom floor all wet and just leaves it for us to get our socks all wet. DS can't aim, so often times there is pee on my bathroom floor. DH almost never cleans, but every once in a while he helps out and expects me to treat him like king for the day. Usually after I threaten to get a housecleaner or cut back on hours at work, he will step up for only for one weekend only. He does do other chores, but cleaning is not his forte.

The fact it has rained for 4 days straight.

My boss asked me why I didn't harass a director on a political issue even though he also never spoke to her, and it is clearly not my place to say anything. I think he was joking but also half serious, and the problem is he always says the dumbest things with zero thought, and it drives everyone bonkers. At least take a moment to think before you just blurt out your random thought associations that we have to respond to seriously instead of just rolling our eyes and saying, really? 

[saraml13]

+1 to the husband who leaves all his dishes on the counter. Actually, them making it to the counter is an improvement. He also leaves mostly empty glasses, coffee mugs, and La a roux cans scattered around the house. They usually have just enough liquid left in them for a toddler to grab and dump on the floor to make a mess.

Also, my DH is incapable of closing doors. Cabinet doors, closet doors, bathroom doors, I feel like I spend half my life running around shutting doors.

[waverly]

+1 to DH not closing doors. Neither of us put dishes in the dishwasher, but we do dishes at least once a day, so that doesn't bother me.

But DH puts his trash on top of the trash drawer, like doesn't open it to put trash in, just puts it on the counter above it.

Or puts his recycle in a pile somewhere, so I am supposed to guess it is recycle and then recycle it? And then if I ask is this recycle he acts like I am dumb for asking because obviously I should know that, but if I accidentally throw or recycle something I shouldn't then the world has ended. Can't win the paper struggle and eye rolls.

[polecat8]

Yes, yes, yes! My DH also does not put things in the dishwasher, recycling can, or garbage can! He also likes to leave cabinets and doors open! DH and the kids also like to leave lights on all over the house and leave windows open when the air conditioning is on! Do you people think I am made of money?!
DH has been helping FIL clean out his house. So there are 3 boxes of old magazines in my trunk for 3 weeks. First off, why can't FIL just put them out for his recycling? And secondly, why can't DH just get rid of them?

Do they teach a secret class for all of our H's on how to annoy your wife?

[186momx]

Add me to the list of DH's who can't put things in the dishwasher or rinse off stuff so it is stuck on and stinky by the time I do get to it. DH's favorite is to take leftover but only bring in the container once a week so they are stinky and moldy then he leaves them on the counter for me to clean and put into the dishwasher.
DH is good with his socks or shoes but DD and I are horrible. I wear the same shoes most days so I don't put them away but leave them by the door, DD rotates shoes and they are everywhere.

[mommyatty]

DH wipes the entire outside of the toilet and the floor with a Clorox wipe Every Time he pees. Why can’t he just learn to aim better??? There’s nothing like standing there about to pee your pants while your husband leisurely cleans the outside of the toilet you need to sit on!

Oh, and DS (barely 4) has recently started pulling the toilet paper toward him but not tearing it before he wipes his penis. This is hilarious but weird. And he acted like I was the idiot for asking him to tear off some toilet paper before using it to wipe. And btw his aim is apparently better than his dad’s.

[traveltheworld]

The birthday party post got me all sad - I'm an only child and DH has an older married brother, so we don't have a lot of family to even consider a family patty.

But that's not the sad part - the sad part is that BIL, who is close With DH, shows no interest in our kids. DS adores him and every time he comes to visit, DS is always dying to spend some time with him. But BIL never makes time for DS - practically ignores the kid.

[mae0111]

Captain's log: we are on day 10 of the jacket on the floor. DH picked it up to get the gym bag underneath, and deposited it right back to it's proper spot on the kitchen floor.

[waverly]

Captains log: We are on day 15 of the stovetop not being cleaned. I caved and cleaned it today, and found well I won't even say too gross.

Captains log: DH cleaned the bathrooms Sunday, and they already smell like pee- thanks DS.

Captains log: Every time DH travels for work I immediately clean parts of the house because I know it will actually stay that way until he gets back.

Captains log: I told him not to mess up the kitchen, and he told me it is his house too. OK then clean it.

[2chatter]

Captains log: DD was having a friend over so she put DH’s clothes in the laundry.

+1 - waverly - there are no towels or clothes on my bathroom floor, nothing on the bar and nothing on the kitchen island because...DH isn’t here.

[traveltheworld]

I found yet another pair of socks in the living room yesterday. I yelled at DH. Unbeknownst to me, he was on a conference call (who takes a conference call at 7:30 at night?!?!?)