My wife is lazy as ****. Does just enough so that outsiders don't see the details. Bugs the crap outta me as I'm OCD/Type A.
Annoying stuff your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend does
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- When we go out to eat, has this tendency to make the waitperson...well, wait while she painstakingly makes what she feigns is the hardest decision of her life. She couldn't make that decision in the 5-10 minutes it took the waitperson to get to our table, take our drink order, and bring them back to the table. It just feels rude to me to make the waitperson hover while she makes this momentous decision.
- I'm driving...brake a little hard...a loud GASP! and she throws her arms out, like the rear-ending of the vehicle in front of us is a foregone conclusion. Somehow, I've driven 28 years and hundreds of thousands of miles without being in an accident with another moving vehicle...but TODAY is the day I will drive us into the accident that sends us both to meet our maker. A little confidence, please?
- Her cat. God, I wish that tomcat would just die already. About 18 years old. POS pisses on my clothes if I leave them in the floor. I think it's jealous. Actually bites her in the morning to wake her up to get her some food. But she loves that damn cat.
Alright, dammit, what do you want? I ate chicken fried chicken. There. Are you happy now that I am a broken man?
This is a huge pet peeve of mine for anyone I'm with but it's mostly with my parents. I can't stand to be with someone who doesn't follow proper protocol at a restaurant. I never want to be a part of the table that the waiter bitches about at the end of their shift. Be ready, don't take forever, don't be needy. My wife isn't like that. She just agonizes over the decision on what to order.
Complain about having to pee sooooi bad while I'm driving yet still won't have put her shoes on when we pull up to the rest stop/gas station.
Whenever my in-laws are around, a conversation will drift into a full-blown argument about dumb "family history fact" which holds no bearing on anything being discussed.
My Wife: "We used to ice skate at some rink in Blah-Blah, Canada and we'd carpool with Jane. Her dad would drive us sometimes."
MY M-I-L: "NO. Only Jane's mom would drive you. James dad had a longer commute when he worked at Hydro back then, so he couldn't drive you that summer.
My Wife: "That summer I skated to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" and Janes' dad bouurrowed a bugle from the a guy who played in a band at the car plant. He was at the car plant that summer."
My F-I-L: "Jane's dad was too cheap to buy gas and drive you all. Always was a cheap bastard."
*5 more minutes of arguing with nothing to be gained.*
Wife: "Well anyway, in the summer I couldn't skate in my normal rink, so we would skate somewhere else."
Me: "What? I'm reading a Kindle upstairs in bed and can barely hear you all. Goodnight."
My Wife: "We used to ice skate at some rink in Blah-Blah, Canada and we'd carpool with Jane. Her dad would drive us sometimes."
MY M-I-L: "NO. Only Jane's mom would drive you. James dad had a longer commute when he worked at Hydro back then, so he couldn't drive you that summer.
My Wife: "That summer I skated to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" and Janes' dad bouurrowed a bugle from the a guy who played in a band at the car plant. He was at the car plant that summer."
My F-I-L: "Jane's dad was too cheap to buy gas and drive you all. Always was a cheap bastard."
*5 more minutes of arguing with nothing to be gained.*
Wife: "Well anyway, in the summer I couldn't skate in my normal rink, so we would skate somewhere else."
Me: "What? I'm reading a Kindle upstairs in bed and can barely hear you all. Goodnight."
She waits until the car is parked before she puts her lipstick on. Drives me crazy.
She is also super slow at exiting a vehicle.
She is also super slow at exiting a vehicle.
Great thread!
My friend has a wife that leaves lights on and does a ton of crazy ****. Other than her most of my friends have pretty normal wives
Having said that my wife has her quirks too
-while I'm driving acts like I'm getting ready to kill us
-will reload a dishwasher that I just loaded
- will literally give me a "what you need to do" speech for every thing I do but leaves off the "what you need to do" line at the beginning because she hates when people say "what you need to do" to her
-I go run in the morning early and come back in and I am creeeeeeeping back into the house and very quietly get ice out and put in a cup and make water and she's banging on the floor upstairs because I'm making too much noise 5 mins before she has to wake up yet will make all kinds of noise if she is up early and I'm not
My friend has a wife that leaves lights on and does a ton of crazy ****. Other than her most of my friends have pretty normal wives
Having said that my wife has her quirks too
-while I'm driving acts like I'm getting ready to kill us
-will reload a dishwasher that I just loaded
- will literally give me a "what you need to do" speech for every thing I do but leaves off the "what you need to do" line at the beginning because she hates when people say "what you need to do" to her
-I go run in the morning early and come back in and I am creeeeeeeping back into the house and very quietly get ice out and put in a cup and make water and she's banging on the floor upstairs because I'm making too much noise 5 mins before she has to wake up yet will make all kinds of noise if she is up early and I'm not
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Of course. I have the absolute best wife and I'm sure her list for me is much longer and much worse. When you live with someone 8+ years there will be annoyances.
I think their entire species does this. I don't understand it.
There have been a couple of occasions where I've gotten out, locked the doors, and went inside where ever we were going before she got out, just to prove a point.
1. Asks me to "zip" her when she wears a dress, knowing full-well it just makes me want to undress her;
2. Allows sentiment to interfere with logic. We live in an old, large house. Kids all raised. I want to downsize to around 1,000 sq ft. She voices support but does not engage in finding the alternate house... there's always something that's just not right. The reality is she has memories of raising our kids here and doesn't want to leave.
3. Considers strong disagreement to be yelling/being mad. Her parents never argued in front of the kids/ my parents beat the crap out of one another.
4. For you young guys....I can't count the times I've seen a young dating couple at a restaurant and she (likely both) are glued to their damned cell phones. If I was dating, if I took a girl out to dinner and she started that cellphone/facebook crap, I'd immediately call it a night and take her home. I just don't understand.
2. Allows sentiment to interfere with logic. We live in an old, large house. Kids all raised. I want to downsize to around 1,000 sq ft. She voices support but does not engage in finding the alternate house... there's always something that's just not right. The reality is she has memories of raising our kids here and doesn't want to leave.
3. Considers strong disagreement to be yelling/being mad. Her parents never argued in front of the kids/ my parents beat the crap out of one another.
4. For you young guys....I can't count the times I've seen a young dating couple at a restaurant and she (likely both) are glued to their damned cell phones. If I was dating, if I took a girl out to dinner and she started that cellphone/facebook crap, I'd immediately call it a night and take her home. I just don't understand.
I once dated a girl 7 years younger than me. I was 28 she was 21. Not too bad but I felt I was robbing the cradle. What made it worse, was she referred to her mom and dad as mommy and daddy. That made me feel even terrible. She would even say it in a little kids voice. If only her parents knew the freak they had created.
Some of you guys have got it pretty rough. My wife does something that irritates the gosh darned heck out me! lol. She will come into the bathroom when I'm taking a bath, and for no reason, not even assessing where the allies are, intentionally sink a destroyer or a battleship. She is sooo immature.
mine stopped calling her father daddy when he was replaced by the bull.
My wife goes out and eats lunch with her work friends practically every day but if I stop and spend $6 at Wendy's for a quick bite to eat after work one day, she jumps all over me about how we need to stop eating out because it's too expensive.
[laughing] How much of an old codger do you have to be to bring up "those damn kids and their cell phones" in a thread about how your wife annoys you?
Getting amnesia after eating wedding cake
She forgot how to do some things that made me marry her
She forgot how to do some things that made me marry her
I admit the only thing that bothers me about my wife is the fact she takes 900 selfies a day. She would take a selfie with a corpse at a funeral.
Not to hi-jack this thread, but went to a funeral last week where this was done...by multiple people. Was confirmation to me that the narcissism that has overtaken this country due to the camera phone has no boundaries.
Heck, the number of photos just taken of the body is self made me very uneasy. Was like paparazzi at a movie premiere.
But back on point and for the record.... 98% of all the combined annoying stuff mentioned in this thread, my wife probably does. Ive just resigned myself to fact that its just in their DNA and aint ever gonna change.
If she does one thing that I haven't seen mentioned on here and drives me nuts.....we cannot go almost anywhere by ourselves. She HAS to have a member of her family with us at all times. Even something as benign as going to the grocery store, a sister, niece, parent...someone is always in tow....and not by choice, most of them think its weird as well.
And she wont make even the most normally mindless decisions, without affirmation from one of them as well.
Had a mini nervous breakdown in Target trying to pick out a bathroom cleaner so had to call one of her family to make the decision for her.
Yeah, it's definitely running rampant full gear. Just glad my wife doesn't "duck lip" her selfies.
Future funeral homes will prolly have a photo-op session with the deceased for social media related material.
I couldn't even imagine living like that.
I love my girl's family and friends but that may be because I only have to see them about five times a year.
I refuse to go shopping, etc with her in any case but if she tried to bring someone else along, I'd go apeshit.
Where to start:
Never ever ever will pick where to eat. Doesn't like Mexican which should be a deal breaker but she will eat it to please me.
Randomly starts to miss her family and goes into an emotional shut down....
Bitches when I do not hang up my tie after work... floor is littered with her clothes in bedroom.
Car always a mess.
Will never ever just pick up the phone and call someone with something important. If I am at the store and she text me to get something I will purposely not get it and tell her she should have just called.
Never ever ever will pick where to eat. Doesn't like Mexican which should be a deal breaker but she will eat it to please me.
Randomly starts to miss her family and goes into an emotional shut down....
Bitches when I do not hang up my tie after work... floor is littered with her clothes in bedroom.
Car always a mess.
Will never ever just pick up the phone and call someone with something important. If I am at the store and she text me to get something I will purposely not get it and tell her she should have just called.
WTF? That is insane. If someone was taking a GD selfie with the dead person at a funeral for one of my family members, I'd have to slap the phone out of their hand. Were these millennial dumbasses or older folks, who should absolutely know better?
I, like most men I'll bet, do not like to "chat" on the phone. The phone's only purpose is to get some information I need or to give some information someone else asks for. People know this about me and I seldom get a "social" call. I don't text unless it's important and they aren't answering my call.
My wife, on the other hand, won't call anyone she can text. "Just call them. You can do that on those devices you know" I'll say. Nope. Text them and wait however long it takes them to text back when I need the info now.
Bless her heart..
My wife, on the other hand, won't call anyone she can text. "Just call them. You can do that on those devices you know" I'll say. Nope. Text them and wait however long it takes them to text back when I need the info now.
Bless her heart..
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Alright, that one's on you. WTF would you prefer/insist on speaking over some mundane task? Read the text, send an "OK" back, boom done. Talking on the phone sucks, and 99% of the pop agrees.
Seriously, if you refuse to answer a couple simple questions over text you're just as bad as anything we've complained about.
Indeed.
I will say that it is frustrating when someone tries to have an extended text conversation about something mundane that could have been sorted out with a minute long phone call.
But basically the gripes about women in this thread are broken in three basic categories (1) inattentiveness, (2) emotional overreaction, and (3) passive aggression.
Not answering a text asking you to purchase something when at the effing store is stupidly passive aggressive.
Pretty sure you already know which group did it.
At least I hope the older generation has enough sense and respect.
We should get into crazy ex-girlfriend stories. That would be way more entertaining.
Or just let @GhostVol tell some of his dating stories.
Or just let @GhostVol tell some of his dating stories.
I was going to say the same thing! I live in South Florida, and you would have already had 10 guns pulled on you
I am pretty sure that crosses over from "annoying" into a need for a clinical diagnosis from a trusted professional.
For safety sake you should get her to stop that. Have her google some stuff about people riding in cars with their feet on the dash, and what the airbags did to them in a wreck. Feet on the dash with an airbag leads to a gruesome result.