what drives you crazy about men???



For me, it's the ability to get completely and totally sucked into television....glued to it. The house could burn down and they'd never know.. Oh, that and the ability to watch re-runs, re-runs, re-runs...


Oh, and how awful they are when sick....you'd think a hangnail was a severed limb!

cj/

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How their brains work differently. Stepping over something on the floor, dropping drawers and socks and leaving them where they lay, putting away dishes and putting a bowl in the cupboard with the pots and pans, the list goes on.

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The political system is broke and it's a joke.

Their lack of planning and/or communicating the plans. My DS is in Cub Scouts this year and it's run by all men. We get very little details about anything and when we do, it's usually only a day or two in advance. I am a 'planner' and that doesn't work very well for me <lol> but I'm learning to adjust!!!

Sarah........mom to Jason & Devin

i love how men can still play like little boys, and I mean that as a compliment. At 20 30 40 and 50 they will play a pickup game of football and dance around like they are 10! They don't worry that it will make them look stupid or clutzy. It doesn't matter what clothes they have on or how they fit either! Love them men....

"What do you want for dinner?"
"I dont know"
<few minutes later>
"what do you want for dinner?"
"Food"
<UGH>
"what kind of food?"
"edible food"


So I give up and either go get whatever I want or fix a snack for me and let him rustle up something for himself whenever he feels like eating edible food

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The men that I know can NOT multi-task!

I think this one is related to - or WHY - they seem to be able to fully focus on things....like the TV! I NEVER just sit and watch TV...always have about 5 balls in the air at any one time

cj/

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

They do not turn of the windshield wipers! I've talked to several of my girlfriends and my sisters and we all agree it's a guy thing.

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Mary

oh boy, I can be on here all day...

Lack of communication..I ask how their day was..they say fine..do not elaberate..ugh

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When there is something the least little bit wrong with my hubby we never hear the end of it. There is the whining, the moaning and blah blah blah, but if there is something wrong with me it's like "Oh get over it attitude" from him.

Men are impatient people, but women are suppose to have all the patience in the world for them.

When are you going to take out the trash? Hold on I will in a few minutes...............2 hours later............1hour later............another hour passes and I am so irate by that time I am taking it out and he says "What are you doing???" I am taking out the trash!!! " I SAID I would do it!" What year??????

I don't like being asked a bunch of stupid little questions.

There has been an occasional jaw drop regarding the things DH says to our DS, age 8 just to get a rise out of me. The most recent would be my admission that I hadn't cleaned the shower and needed to do so. At the dinner table nonetheless, DH turns to DS and says, "Tell your Mom not to pee in the shower and she won't have to clean it!"

I couldn't say a thing. DD thought it was hilarious, too.

All things considered, I can't complain. We all love to laugh in our household and occasionally take it a bit to far. The guys in my house are keepers because Lord knows, I'm far from perfect myself.

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OMG, yes!!! Mine does this too. I'm constantly telling him to shut them off, it drives me totally crazy.

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Good Grief,my bf will never take out the trash unless reminded all night long.Last night I did not remind him and he never took out the trash.So it gets to sit in our garage another week and stink.
He never does anything that needs to be done without nagging him a hundred times to do it.Sometimes it even DOES take years!

Sitting dirty dishes by the sink when the dishwasher is right there and empty.

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Raising my baby RIGHT!!!!!!

All the cool babies are wearing cloth!

For me, my biggest complaint has to be when they are sick. It seems the world is going to end.

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I don't have time to list EVERYTHING....I would never get off the computer! lol

but 2 things quickly come to mind:

--changing the channel!! just constantly surfing the tv programs and only stopping long enough to get me interested and then switching again and again, stopping on some car chase or prison story ugh, and then switching again! I hate it.....so either I start reading or taking out my knitting, lol.

--always picking the hardest, complicated way to fix a repair. I try to stay out of the way, but it goes round and round and somehow duct tape gets involved when something is then broken while he is trying to fix something else. So when I finally pop my head out and say why not do it this way....he answer to me last week was "you always want to do it the easiest way!" as if that is a bad thing????

--after 32 years, I try to let what drives me crazy, make me laugh.

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i agree with not using the wipers, that drives me crazy! whenever the trash is full i leave it pulled out in plain view , i don't say anything at all. he smashes everything down and puts it back into its spot, instead of emptying it. i have to laugh when he does that. it never bothers them to take off their boots and leave them in the livingroom. Or leave hats and coats lying around.
i could go on forever

OMG! YES YES YES! Mine does this too. I sit there and just get interested in the 43'd thing he's changed to and he changes it again !! I'm like PICK SOMETHING!!!!!

How about everything lol

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I'm guessing that you want this answered in 100 words or less, so I'll just give my #1 peeve.

I call it "So close, yet so far away".

Dropping dirty clothes next to the hamper.
Laying trash on the counter over the door that opens to the wastebasket.
Placing dirty dishes on the counter over the dishwasher.
Getting the mail, walking past the trash bin, and leaving junk mail in a pile on the hall table because it needs to be tossed.

It's like one more step would kill them.

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he can hear our daughter talking to him, the tv talking in another room, a cat meowing for 4 miles away but cant hear me talking to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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how they can sit 2 feet away from the tv and complain they can't change the channel because they can't find the remote. good grief, just reach your hand out, like we used to do in the olden days!

Mine goes the other way....children deafness. He gets so engrossed in whatever TV show he's watching (or mag he's reading...whatever) that they can stand right next to him saying "daddy....daddy....daddy" and he just sits there like he's the only one home. I finally have to scream "answer them!" and that usually does the trick.

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Changing the channel when I am watching something then saying "I didn't think you were that into it" Or when I am watching one life to live on soapnet at night because I work during the day and I hear "How much longer is this on"

other than the tv I dont have any major complaints other than when he says "my brother wants to know if we can take the kids" or "my grandmother wants to know why you won't eat at het house" he knows how I feel on those topics

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How quickly they fall asleep as opposed to any other woman I know!
I only wish I could be snoring within 60 seconds of my head hitting the pillow!
MZ

I know we all love them to death.....but it sure is nice to be able to rag on their faults! I'm enjoying reading these.

cj/

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

OMG there are so many mentioned that match my DH as well.

Leaves dirty clothes in a pile on the floor in the bedroom (I've stopped doing his laundry awhile ago)

Leaving dirty dishes in the sink when the dishwasher is ready and waiting right next to it.

Taking the trash out of the can when it's full, then leaves it against the desk in the kitchen, and the other day it was still there when the trash can was full again with another bag.

Saying inappropriate things at the wrong time...this brings to mind one day my girlfriend called and said she almost died when at dinner that night, her husband said something about "golden showers" and her kids (boy of 12, and twin girls age 7) were pumping her and her husband about what that was..and he just sat there chucking and she was kicking him under the table. She was SO MAD, that they would probably blurt that out at school or somewhere totally inappropriate (you know how kids pick the WORST time to say stuff like that)

I call my husband "King of Half Done" because he never follows through with a task. He also has the ability to turn a simple repair job, in to a total house remodel. EX: The tub drain clogs, I just want to unclog it. So ask to get some drano or something, by the time the conversation is over he has mentioned that the pipes are so old in the house, and the plumber really needs to come in and repipe all the water pipes in the house..blah blah blah...I just wanted a $1.69 bottle of Drano, and not a $10,000 plumbing job..

I could go on forever. But need to mention that yes, when he has a sniffle, he takes to the bed, and doesn't go to work..BABY.

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See it is nice when women all rally together it is rather refreshing to know that all men are the same lol.

I can say amen to most of the things here....

I went on strike w/ taking out the trash recently. I kid you not, the trash piled up for almost 2 weeks. Yes, I was called lazy numerous times- but I wasn't going to budge. He has taken the trash out regularly since. It is ridiculous that I work full time, and he takes 12 hours in college classes (well 9 now) and I have to do all the chores.

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Hate to admit that one sounds just like "ME".

My hubby is always asking me "how do you do it"? I think he is jealous!....lol

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DH rinses the dishes and stacks them meticulously on the counter next to the sink. Why doesn't he put them in the dishwasher??????????? Drives me nuts. It's actually more effort to not put them in there!

cj/

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

All of the above!!

My DH will take the trash bag out of the kitchen trash can (and not put a new one in, of course), but instead of taking it out, he will leave it by the back door. Um, the outside collection trash can is about 5 steps out the back door -- why can't he just make those 5 steps and be done with it.

I'm giggling at all of these..... I have to laugh. My DH is the same. There is a huge pile of laundry on his side of the bed because I just didn't feel like picking it all up this week. My goodness, it's interesting to get some confirmation (it's not just MY husband) that there is either some sort of man wiring issue or that women somehow make them this way (as mothers or wives....)

I hope you all have a great day! I certainly will!!!! Good post, OP. I will be much less likely to be irritated at my DH when he doesn't take out the trash on my time schedule, load the dishwasher or pick up his clothes..... it sounds like he's no worse than anyone elses and much better than a lot I know!!!!

Kim

This sounds like my house and I live w/ five men! Well, one man, and four in-training. I think my biggest pet peeve lately, is that when any of them are in the kitchen, they never wipe off the counters after making a mess. Someone must have told them about the "crumb fairy" who comes in the kitchen to clean behind them.

You live at my house??? I've spent all day cleaning the kitchen today after my guys have ransacked the place. The kids like ramen noodles, WHY must they bust the strands up and leave pieces of noodles everywhere. cleaned under the top of the stove cause there was noodles under there, under the microwave

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Hi, my name is janenga and I'm a crumb fairy.... Yeah, I had a few words with dh just the other day about this....he is 42....can make his own sandwich but god forbid he has to clean up the crumbs. If I can see them, why can't he??

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You know I'am 31 and my husband is 50, you think he could open a package and read the directions before trying to put something together, especially electronic toys, instead he screws it up and ask me to read them for him, and I think my worst is folding laundry, how many times do I have to show him how to fold towels, you might think I should appreciate him doing anything in the house, but I take care of the garbage, yard, bills, and even helped him rebuild two motors and put them back in, but he can't remember how to fold a towel, gotta love him though

this is kinda a kids thing but they are all boys. I plan out my meals for the week like today I went to Aldi's and then shoprite for the rest. I unloaded the Aldis foods before I left for shoprite and when I got back they'd ate 1/2 the bag of shredded cheese and for into the torillas. so there goes that meal. they can not just leave the stuff alone they KNOW it's for a dinner but they dont care

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ok, i'm here again..I have to ditto the crumb fairy comment..that drives me nuts that he doesn't clean the counter or when he does something in the sink, or might put dishes in the dishwashwer when I am on one of my rampages, that HE LEAVES THE YUCKO STUFF IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SINK and won't rinse it out and clean the drain.

Or that when he buys a drink...like now he's hooked on those Monster Energy Drinks..(yuck) he literally acted like a big baby when he opened up the fridge and someone drank it. "Who drank my Monster..." and carried on. I said OMG will you calm down already..the store has more...and he said "But that cost me 3 dollars.." I wanted to scream, at all the times I've brought things for him and the kids and never whined about me being out the money. Geez.

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**Some people are like Slinky's, not really good for anything, but you can't help laugh when you see one tumble down the stairs**

Call his mom and ask her if she will give him a refresher course on trash removal, laundry, crumbs and sweetly hand him the phone and say Your moms on the phone. Just watch for the jaw dropping moment when his mom reminds him to do stuff.
Suggestion number 2 Invite his family over to see the new decorating that her adorable son has recently acomplished.....crumbs,drawers hanging over floor lamps, trash 4 ft deep and then say"I love this man inspite of his decorating.
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Rejoice and be glad that he is healthy and home with you and relaxed enough in your relationship that he can snore,
Not everyone is blessed with a snorer

The fact that they just dont get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My DH does most of the cooking, which is nice. HOWEVER, do I need to know EVERY ingredient that went into each special dish prepared? It's like a volcano erupts on my counter every time he cooks. There is a trail of food, containers, spilled spices and liquid all over the counter when he's done every time...

I know...he means well...