Do you deliberately annoy your partner?

Well I don’t, it sounds like a recipe for disaster!

Weirdly, my DH does the washing up bowl thing as well, only he sets it on its side. I’m fairly certain it’s not deliberate....

Much as I'd like to, (annoy, that is) I don't have a partner.
I wonder why that is?

My husband always put amug upside down on the draining board after i have cleared the sink and cleaned it and the draining board. It drives me mad!!! He also leaves empty milk containers on the side rather than putting straight into the recycling bin and he also leaves the tea towel scrunched up, somewhere random in the kitchen, rather than putting on the towel rail!!! when i say anything he laughs and says because i know it annoys you. Now i just ignore.

Re the washing up bowl, I seem to remember being told to do this in school. Stop water creating a puddle for germs?

My husband does the 'on the side' thing, which doesnt fulfil either objective!

I dont think its on purpose though.

Please be grateful they know where the kitchen is and you have running water there. Many do not.

Sometimes, just to annoy my ExH. He had a habit of getting out of the car at the end of the day and leave it unlocked, despite being reminded repeatedly that it would get stolen. He used to leave the house each morning via the back door, walk down the ginnel at the side of the house and across the driveway to open the unlocked car door. But whilst he'd been doing his circuitous route, I'd have got the spare car key fob and, whilst watching from the window, flicked the car alarm on remotely. As soon as he touched the door handle, the alarm would blare out and the headlights flash on and off. I used to howl with laughter as I watched him frantically scrabbling for his car keys to turn everything off! He never did learn his lesson until the car was indeed stolen.

Oh, Charleygirl5, nobody’s saying that they’re not grateful for what they’ve got. Do we really have to add a disclaimer now to every light-hearted comment?

I can remember doing the washing up bowl thing when I had a washing up bowl i think my Mum did it too. Can't think why I'd of wanted to annoy my lovely DH but he used to always leave dishes on the side rather than put them in the dishwasher.

M OH is irritated by the way I put the dishes on the draining rack when washing up, because it isn't how he puts them when he does the job, and obviously, his way is the only 'right' way, in his opinion!
I don't do it to annoy him, but I'm not going to change the way I do it either.

I have to admit that there is something that I used to do deliberately: After I had done the housework, he used to go around tweaking the position of any ornaments and furniture that wasn't exactly how he liked it to be.
This started to annoy me, especially as he didn't do any of the actual work, so I began deliberately putting things back skew whiff sometimes, then I would sit back and wait to see how long it took him to correct them.
Wicked, I know, but I couldn't resist
I think OH eventually twigged, because he stopped doing it as often. (Though his controlling nature has become much more obvious in other ways since then.)

No, I don't. Our lives are difficult enough...disability...estranged children...covid...need I say more?

My ex used to decide to wash the car when we were due to set off for a lunch/party etc as he knew I hate being late

Do I deliberately annoy my partner ?

All depends what mood I'm in

Maggie, I don't think that was what Charley was doing.

Why ever would you want to ?

Some things do irritate me, but only if I’m having a bad day. He doesn’t do them on purpose. I’m sure I must have some irritating habits too.

Thank you Chewbacca. We’ve just come in, and I was reading my husband this thread. He then said, “ Did I lock the car?” I thought he had, but he’d gone in after to put hand sanitizer back in there. But for your post, it would have been left unlocked?

Charleygirl5

Please be grateful they know where the kitchen is and you have running water there. Many do not.

But I just can’t see any other meaning, kitty, apart from that Charleygirl thinks we should stop moaning and count our blessings.

Do you deliberately annoy your partner?

Not deliberately

I do the "standing the washing up bowl on one side" thing and I have no one here to annoy except myself.

I used to put the toilet paper roll on, hanging to the back, rather than the front, just because my bloke was such a smart a**e about it and once lectured me for 20 minutes as to why hanging to the front was right.

It used to irritate the hell out of him and I would evil grin to myself.

He was right though..

DH always tips any spare water out of the kettle and re-fills it, even if I have only boiled it a few minutes earlier. He also always puts far too much water in for one mug.

He doesn’t do it to annoy me, but it does!

Of course I never annoy him in any way, either on purpose or by accident!

DiscoDancer1975

Thank you Chewbacca. We’ve just come in, and I was reading my husband this thread. He then said, “ Did I lock the car?” I thought he had, but he’d gone in after to put hand sanitizer back in there. But for your post, it would have been left unlocked?

Oddly enough, we’ve just passed our car, parked along the street, as we went for some fresh air. DH idly tried the door handle, and guess what?

GagaJo

I used to put the toilet paper roll on, hanging to the back, rather than the front, just because my bloke was such a smart a**e about it and once lectured me for 20 minutes as to why hanging to the front was right.

It used to irritate the hell out of him and I would evil grin to myself.

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