<p>Okay, tired of all the serious posts, so I thought of starting a thread on things your spouse, BF, GF, significant other does that drives you crazy, but you love them anyway!!</p>
<p>I will start with:</p>
<p>Asking me to come into the room to watch some golf shot, some soccer goal, some baseball catch, because it is GREAT!!!</p>
<p>If I wanted to see it, I would have watched it in the first place…</p>
<p>Dear God, where do I begin …</p>
<p>1.) Saying he will get himself something to eat on the way home from work if we’re having a busy night and no one is around to make dinner - then driving straight home and being surprised and a little hurt that there’s nothing for him to eat.</p>
<p>2.) Corollary to 1 above, his inability to perceive that there IS something to eat at home, if he’ll just apply a little effort (open a can, put something in the microwave, etc.). There just isn’t a plate of homemade food waiting for him in the fridge with his name on it.</p>
<p>3.) Eating as many popsicles as I buy within 2 days, be that 12, 24, 36, or any other multiple of a dozen.</p>
<p>4.) Forgetting to mention that he has a work-related dinner to attend that night, then not showing up for dinner at home. This one really isn’t so bad because whatever dinner was, he’ll have it the following night while the kids and I go out.</p>
<p>Gee, mine are all food-related.</p>
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<em>lol</em> frazzled…everything in my LIFE is food related! ;)</p>
<p>As far as my dh:</p>
<p>1.) His use of the “pink spot” method of cleaning (and yes, he does more cleaning than I!). “Pink spot” method refers to the pink spot from The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, in which the dreaded pink spot just keeps getting moved around and around and around…<em>sigh</em> My style is more of the “leave it and heave it method.” After all, an important letter that has been sitting around on my counter for the past six years just CAN’T be that important anymore, right??? ;)</p>
<p>2.) The fact that his first response to someone coming over is either the ever-helpful “I’ll go and clean the garage” or “I’ll go and mow the lawn.” Hmmmmmmmmm, what about the bathroom??? </p>
<p>3.) The fact that he continues to load the dishwasher in the same haphazard way that guantees that NOTHING will get really clean, even as he KNOWS how to do it the right way…</p>
<p>4.) The fact that he LOVES working out and can’t NOT work out. This serves to 1.) make me feel guilty for NOT doing it (and definitely NOT loving it! <em>lol</em>), and 2.) Takes up monster amounts of his time.</p>
<p>5.) He has a phone allergy. It can be sitting right next to him and he’ll ask either the kids or me to answer it. What’s up with that???</p>
<p>6.) Beginning every sentence about stuff he wants me to get done with, “WE neeed to…”</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Something only the 21st century dweller could love. Been married for 28 years. Survived this long. And then along came Blackberry technology. Morning, noon and night. That thing is buzzing and he’s looking at it. I start a conversation. He’s scrolling through his Blackberry. “Dear, the house is burning down.” DH looks up from the Blackberry, blank stare. No wonder I’ve heard it nicknamed a “Crackberry.”</p>
<p>I can’t stand the way my husband drives. Admittedly, I am a back seat driver, but that’s because it is necessary at times. He’s constantly changing the radio station or doing something with the GPS, and when he does touch one of those items, he puts his foot on the brake. When he actually passes a car, he has a tendency to stay in the left lane, even though there will be a line of cars behind him, waiting for him to move so they can zip past us. We are totally different drivers. I love using cruise control … it keeps me at a nice, even pace. My husband is the type of driver I hate getting behind. I must admit he can’t stand riding with me, either. He claims I drive too fast and tailgate, but I believe he thinks that because he leaves so much room between him and the car in front that several cars can slide right in without a problem. If he’s driving, I recline my seat and try to sleep … otherwise, I’m afraid I’ll be doing the eye rolling and heavy sigh thing too much. I think we do most of our arguing in the car because of our tendencies to criticize the driving techniques of one another. We’ve talked about renting an RV and going out west … I must be nuts!!!</p>
<p>DH: Do you know where such and such is?
Me: Have you checked “insert a place here.”
DH: Yes, I’ve already checked there.
Me: OK, I’ll look for it.
Me: It’s right here, I thought you said you checked!
DH: I did!</p>
<p>Roshke, that’s my hubby to a T. Except after the third sentence, I reply “Well then, I guess it’s lost.”</p>
<p>Roshke~</p>
<p>That’s us too…but in reverse!!! I can never find ANYTHING (at least if my husband has used his pink spot method of cleaning). When will he understand that there IS a method to my madness!? ;)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>“The fact that he LOVES working out and can’t NOT work out. This serves to 1.) make me feel guilty for NOT doing it (and definitely NOT loving it! <em>lol</em>)”</p>
<p>Hey. I couldn’t have said it better!</p>
<p>jasmom~</p>
<p>My oldest son has the same mentality. That is his stress reliever at college, as opposed to the partying stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sooooooooooo glad for this, but honestly, those people that just somehow feel that their day is “incomplete” w/o a workout really cook my grits! If only I could transplant that mentality into myself (she says as she resentfully steps off of the elliptical, sweat-soaked—but MAN was it a struggle! <em>lol</em>).</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>OK, I’ll add one more. Getting my attention by starting a sentence, pausing indefinitely, as he engages in some other task. I stay attentive, hanging on his last word… (Aghhh!!!)</p>
<p>you mean besides listening to Air America so much that he has practially become a left wing nut?</p>
<p>weighing the same as he did in high school & eating a pint of ice cream every night? ( & I have to make sure it is stocked)</p>
<p>never answering his cell phone or checking his messages.</p>
<p>I better stop here ;)</p>
<p>I know what you mean, roshke. My husband always seems to misplace his belt. Every time he asks me if I know where it is, I tap my index finger on my chin, look at the sky with a quizical look, and say “Hmmm, the last time I wore your belt …” and he says “Okay, I get it!” He must not “get it” though, because he continues to ask me!</p>
<p>DH and DD both have a terrible habit of going to the pantry in search of certain items to which they swear are not there. How sad that I can spot the item on my way across the room as they stand right in front of it! It’s funny, though, if I say “Oh, well” like I have no intention of helping in the search, they eventually find it.</p>
<p>i get</p>
<p>“How long do I microwave this for?”
Um, 1 minute like always, (at least he can use the microwave)</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>The weighing the same as highschool - “hey dear, guess what, I weighed myself today, and I way the same as i did in 1974!!!” yes, dear, and I don’t. Shut up.</p>
<p>It drives me crazy that my DH will empty the dishwasher, but after 15 years in the same house, he still does not know where most things go in the kitchen–I swear he does it, so that I have to take over the chore, but it looked good that he was “helping” in the kitchen.</p>
<p>And…he cannot multitask!!! But he’s completely fabulous anyway!!!</p>
<p>citygirlsmomm~I am the one who calls DH into the room to watch the great play in basketball, baseball, etc.!! I like watching ALL college basketball, and he enjoys it, but not on the same level. Maybe I better be careful that I’m not driving him TOO crazy!!!</p>
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<em>lol</em> irish!!</p>
<p>That’s what I’ve always thought too…he’s thinking, “I’ll do it WRONG every single time, so that she’ll just think it’s easier for her to go ahead and do it herself, but I can say I OFFERED!!”</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>It seemed EVERYIME my husband helped in the kitchen, especially washing dishes, a wine glass got broken…everytime</p>
<p>So, know we have the world’s cheapest glasses, and he goes in there still</p>
<p>I would not let him get away with it, cause it was his sneaky little plan</p>
<p>its the principle of the thing</p>
<p>He sings around the house…A LOT…very loudly and it doesn’t seem to matter if others are sleeping, watching tv, reading, etc.</p>
<p>Hey - what’s with all the girls out here in CC ganging up on their guys?</p>
<p>The stories I could tell about my SO here, if only I had the nerve… :)</p>
<p>My husband has only one flaw (that bugs me, I mean, I know he has others): he answers his cell phone at the movies. </p>
<p>(What do I win?)</p>