Things your spouse (or ex) does that bug you

[1976gmc20]

Clutter

I think it is an inherited family trait. I'm pretty sure that there is a manor house or castle over in England that has been filled to the rafters with stuff for the past 300 years. Maybe that's why her family emigrated: they couldn't get in the house any more

[special-K]

It seems like every time I ever got in her vehicle it would be low enough on gas the first stop was the gas station. I sweated it quite a few times (5 miles)

[rharris]

Originally Posted by special-K

It seems like every time I ever got in her vehicle it would be low enough on gas the first stop was the gas station. I sweated it quite a few times (5 miles)

Same here. The Tahoe shut off due to being so low when I was picking my son up in town one afternoon. I guess it was my fault for parking on an incline.

[67C10Step]

My wife asks to go fishing some weekends when I really want to stay home and work on my truck. She bought me the truck so she knows I want to work on it, right?

My wife is actually the anti-hoarder. She throws stuff away right and left faster than I can decide if it's good or not. As long as she doesn't do it out in my shop I just don't argue about it. I don't leave anything lying around either.

She volunteers me from time to time without asking but in the grand scheme of things she has put up with me for 25 years so it's a trade I reckon.

[special-K]

When my neighbors would do something that upset us, I'd say "Don't call anybody. I'm going over to talk to them". I'd do that, and later on the authorities would show up. I always figured it was another neighbor who called, but over the years I came to learn it was her making the calls. So even though I took care of it in my way, they were mad at "us" for calling them in. That's how I ended up getting turned in for buildings I built w/o a permit (after 15-20 years) after she was already gone.

Ok, there it all is in a nutshell. I'd say it over and over again. What bothered me about her was this: I was always paying the consequences for her actions she did against my better judgement. Can anyone else relate to that? I still am paying

(Want some cheese with that whine? )

[Black_Sheep]

I hate when she “puts my tools away” because she opens my tool box and throws everything in one drawer. Drives me nuts...

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by special-K

When my neighbors would do something that upset us, I'd say "Don't call anybody. I'm going over to talk to them". I'd do that, and later on the authorities would show up. I always figured it was another neighbor who called, but over the years I came to learn it was her making the calls. So even though I took care of it in my way, they were mad at "us" for calling them in. That's how I ended up getting turned in for buildings I built w/o a permit (after 15-20 years) after she was already gone.

Ok, there it all is in a nutshell. I'd say it over and over again. What bothered me about her was this: I was always paying the consequences for her actions she did against my better judgement. Can anyone else relate to that? I still am paying

(Want some cheese with that whine? )

My wife used to put stuff to be thrown out in a box on the steps going to the garage. Nice to find when I'm going out to work on something. One time she did that, and I threw the stuff out (didn't bother to open the box- every other time I asked, it was trash). This time, it wasn't. Cost about $30 to buy what got tossed. Broke her of that habit (at least at that location).

Originally Posted by Black_Sheep

I hate when she “puts my tools away” because she opens my tool box and throws everything in one drawer. Drives me nuts...

My wife doesn't put her own stuff away, so I have no worries on that account! But she takes the pruning shears out of my toolbox to cut plants because she leaves her cheapo $7 pot metal ones out and they rust up and she needs something to do more pruning...and leaves my $30 all-steel pruning shears out to rust. I finally started locking my toolbox. Man, you'd think I'd kicked a puppy!