To those of you whose husbands wake you up just as you are falling asleep: Are you sure your husbands are not my cat? Do they start by meowing softly, then tap-tap-tapping your face with a soft paw, and then, if you don’t respond, biting the hell out of your arm til you wake up screaming? Then meowing very sadly, to complain? If so, yep, he’s my cat.
Mine won’t throw away things either? We have a huge box of National Geographic’s from 25 years ago. They are just collecting dust in the storage room basement. He won’t get rid of them because “he’ll read them”. Come on, already. I get rid of things I know he’s forgotten about. It took him 20 years to get rid of the “Cosby” sweaters from the 80’s that were on his side of the closet for, well, 20 years unworn.
This is why I can’t do this…I start getting annoyed thinking about all the things that annoy me.
I have a new pet peeve: wanting me to be his sous chef. H has started cooking, but he isn’t a cook, he is a CHEF, and he needs an assistant. I hate it. His cooking has gone from being a nice, helpful thing to being a major PITA. Why not just do it all myself?
I try to have something else to do when he is cooking so I can’t help.
Ok…I knew I shouldn’t have participated on this thread because now I can’t stop. I like to entertain, but find I don’t as much because he has to go over the top. Yes, it makes it nice for the guests, but just an incredible amount of work for us. I just don’t think there is anything wrong with just a clean house…do we have to use a toothbrush to clean deeply? Typical beverages…do we have to have 2 additional specialty ones you’ve never made before? Why can’t it be a pitch in…everyone else does that. I want it to be nice, but not burdensome. He makes it such an event that it tires me to even think about it, so I don’t bring it up as much as I would like. Therefore, I just get together at restaurants with my friends or as couples.
@nottelling, is this your cat?
My husband is the opposite of a hoarder. He drives all of us insane by his constant throwing things away without asking the owner of said article if that’s okay. And then he denies he did it later (he’s not lying, he just doesn’t -remember doing it), which is doubly annoying. He threw away my W-2 form once. After going through every trash bag, we finally found it (and other evidence that he was indeed the culprit), and all he said was “well, I didn’t mean to. I sure don’t remember doing that.”
Annoying as it is, I’d have to say I prefer that to a hoarder. If he was pathological like some of the TV shows, that might end up doing us in as a happy couple.
DH hasnt done this before so I can’t call it a pet peeve, but I was skeeved so I will vent. We were out of town and twice in the past two days we ate the same particular kind of food. Thats ok, as I like it, but tonight, on his way home from work, he calls me from the same kind of restaurant and asked me if it’s ok to do takeout, and what do I want. So, OK, Its 3 times in 3 days, but I tell him what I want. He gets home and announces that he thought I didn’t sound like I really wanted what I told him I wanted, so he brought me something else!! 
Whaaat??? I told him what I wanted and he decided it wasn’t what I wanted and decided I really wanted something else?? Really??? Grrrr…
^Oh, you have to tell us what kind of ethnicity it was lol. I keep trying to guess what it is you wanted v what he brought you but I’m thinking Indian, no…Chinese…no Italian LOL
Nope- not any of those.
I was thinking sushi.
And I was thinking Mexican. Umm, tacos, enchiladas , nachos, etc.
I could easily eat Mexican fiod every day. Chile verde, carne asada, carnitas, mole … Yum.
Oh my gosh . . . another one!!!
We do that here too.
:-?
@HarvestMoon1 is right! I do love sushi, but when one is in the mood for a specific roll, one doesn’t want nigiri sushi ;). Had Mexican only once recently. Apologies, @nottelling, but that was plenty for me.
It had to be sushi – what other ethnic food would most women eat 3 nights in a row?? While I would love to eat Italian or Mexican 3 nights in a row I wouldn’t love the added weight that would most likely result!
H has many good characteristics; however in many ways one could call him “odd”. I told him that was a fair descriptor of him, and he was a little offended until someone else mentioned that he was indeed odd - but he didn’t mind hearing it elsewhere (I guess that source was from someone he is rather friendly with). H is engineer, so it is often a description of how some engineers are.
H sometimes has a pattern of blaming me for all things that go wrong. However most recently I have been scoring points with handling his elderly parents and managing our two YA DDs. Tonight H really yelled at 20 YO (which she was acting bratty, but usually he can tolerate a whole lot more from kids w/o losing his cool). I am handling some new territory issues which he has no clue on, so he has a good attitude towards me right now.
LOL - DH and I and many of our friends are engineers… so we think many non-engieneers are “odd”. Just kidding - there are lots of kinds of people, and that’s just fine. It makes the world interesting.
DH has a bachelor uncle that was an electronics tech and quite introverted. A first cousin takes after some of bachelor uncle’s characteristics in that he lives frugally and seems to like being a bachelor with few financial responsibilities. DH being married to me has stretched his comfort zone. He more readily is willing to stretch his comfort zone at some times versus others; he has a stubborn streak too - I try to just be stubborn about very important things. DH most often wants to avoid ‘feelings’ like the plague.