<p>I am not making this a beeacch thread, just curiosity if there are any commonalities among men and women.</p>
<p>I love Bullet, but my NUMBER 1 COMPLAINT IS:</p>
<p>THE BATHROOM MIRROR!</p>
<p>Everyday he gets ready for work and when he leaves I have to come behind him to remove crap that he splashed up on the mirror. To me it is insane how do you get a mirror that dirty? You brushed your teeth, shaved your face! I brushed my teeth and washed my face, how is it my mirror is clean and yours looks like 6 yr olds had a water fight?</p>
<p>Hate to tell you guys, but as a Realtor I have lots of women who say that is their complaint too. </p>
<p>I am pretty sure Bullet’s pet peeve about me is I am Lucy from I Love Lucy and start projects that he has to finish because I started them. HEY LUUUUCCCYYY was a common joke in our house for yrs!</p>
<p>Leaving his breakfast toast crumbs on the cutting board drives me batty, as does leaving all the doors open all the time; I am cold, he is warm, but if it is less than 70F outside I don’t think the doors need to be wide open, front & back, creating a breeze through the whole house. He likes fresh air :D</p>
<p>I solved a lot of these problems… in our new house, we share a bedroom but not a bathroom. I have my own bathroom. So… no toothpaste issues, no TP issues, no seat issues. (When we remodeled his bathroom, I suggested mounting the mirror a little higher so it wouldn’t get splashed quite so easily. That solved that problem.)</p>
<p>My pet peeve with my husband: he bicycles all the time. I don’t mind that so much as I do the fact that it means he loses weight really easily, while I (shall we say?) struggle… So there I am, facing a salad while he eats two desserts because he rode 100 miles that day.</p>
<p>Where to start…
Mustache hair trimmings left in the sink. He just trims the mustache and leaves the hair there for me or our housecleaner to clean up. </p>
<p>Wine residue left in the bottom of the glass. Could you just put it in the sink with some water? Let’s see, I must have mentioned this about a zillion times.</p>
<p>Dirty socks on the bedside table. Throw them on the floor! NOt on the table next to the telephone! Or, how about in the hamper?</p>
<p>While he is doing email, constantly asking me how to spell words while I am doing something else. I am an excellent speller, but not so good at doing it verbally. I actually think this one is my top pet peeve.</p>
<p>We watch what he wants to watch and then he promptly falls asleep! If I change the channel and he wakes up, he wants the tv back on what he wants to watch. Or, he falls asleep while I continue watching and if he wakes up because the dogs were barking, he rewinds so he can see what he has missed. I have seen the same 5 minutes of a show so many times I could scream!</p>
<p>Can not find anything in the pantry or fridge even when I tell him what shelf to locate said item. I usually have to get up from what I am doing to show him it is really there.</p>
<p>A couple of things…first is using Q-Tips outside of the bathroom to clean his ears
Second is taking off his socks in the living room . Where things belong is an issue , but he is such a good guy and works so hard that I keep my mouth shut</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal just had an article on this subject–the petty annoyances thing. One woman, who divorced her husband, told him that it drove her nuts that he only put butter on the center of the english muffin, not spreading it out to the edges.</p>
<p>Well, there are a lot to choose from. And he would undoubtedly say the same about me. In fact, when I read the thread title, I thought it was asking what our spouses’ pet peeves about us are. I know he hates it when I give or throw away anything he thinks he might be able to use someday. He’s an accumulator and would be living in chaos if not for me. :D</p>
<p>But! My biggest pet peeve of the moment is how dysfunctional he is with the alarm clock, which he wants on his side of the bed. It was no big deal when I spent two decades getting up first. Now that our kids are out of the house, I don’t have to be up at 5:30 AM, and I resent the alarm clock going off then if all he’s going to do is hit the snooze alarm every 10 minutes for an hour. (And I have to prod him to do that.) He says it helps him wake up - I say it spoils my last hour in bed.</p>
<p>Worst of all - it’s a bizarre clock that’s difficult to program, and he often forgets to turn the alarm off on weekends or holidays, even when reminded. Repeatedly. So, happy Saturday, it’s 5:30 AM! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^^^frazzled, my college roommate did that snooze button thing, too! Very annoying.</p>
<p>My husband is always late-and not only that, when he says “I’ll be home at x time” and I show any skepticism about it, he has the nerve to get annoyed. Please.</p>
<p>He would say it annoys him how I open cabinets and don’t close them, or use the microwave and leave the door open afterward. And that I make too big a deal about punctuality, lol.</p>
<p>My list includes everyone of the above mentioned pet peeves! </p>
<p>Why is it that this seemly intelligent man cannot remember to push in his chair when he gets up from the table and why does he always have the TV on so darn loud?</p>
<p>Thumper - about 20 years ago I read a book about how to simplify your life. It suggested starting small (all the farther I got) and to give up one small thing that causes you stress. I decided that I was going to drop the habit of always putting the TP on a certain way. The funny thing is that while I no longer insist on it being my way, every time I replace a roll I still say to myself “it doesn’t matter if it goes over or under”</p>
<p>Who gets to decide which is the “right way” and which way is “backwards?” Apparently this issue was one of the most controversial of all subjects in the Dear Abby column!</p>
<p>Oh man, I was trying to pick my top one and frazzled reminded me about the alarm clock. Not only does my H set it 40 minutes early, he has 2 clocks and insists on keeping them 37 and 42 minutes fast, respectively. This is the stupidest thing EVER. When I awaken at 2:41 a.m., I do NOT want to have to figure out which clock it is and then do math to know what time it REALLY is.</p>
<p>Ok, I’ve not sticking with just one. He does our grocery shopping and overbuys most everything on a good “sale”. #$*(# I am not a Sam’s club, although the basement looks like it. I don’t care if Gatorade is 75 cents/bottle. I guarantee you it will be that again before we get through the quantity he buys. This works ok during the fall when the school is constantly having food drives, but the rest of the year terrible.</p>
<p>Obviously he has a problem with clocks. We have the same model truck, although mine is extended cab; his is not. Otherwise the interiors and dash are exactly the same. Yep, he sets his clock forward. So, sometimes I’m driving his truck and look at the clock on my way somewhere and panic because I’m late! Although of course, I’m not. How can an educated, intelligent 51 year old who set clocks to the wrong time think it really makes him any more on time?? Especially when it does not!!</p>
<p>I could give you answers to all your questions about why your husbands do what they do, like having the TV up extra loud ( ), etc. but then I might give something away and I’d feel like a turncoat so I’ll refrain.</p>
<p>My DH has several of the above (except the clock thing - that is really strange) but I have learned to live with them. My pet peeve is that although my DH is a wonderful handyman - he can paint, wallpaper, fix electricity, plumbing, etc, etc - HE ALMOST NEVER USES THESE SKILLS. He is too busy playing old man sports and working on the computer to notice that our house is falling apart.</p>
), etc. but then I might give something away and I’d feel like a turncoat so I’ll refrain.</p>