Reading another blog, Ribshack Red, I was directed to this Daily Mail article ; it discusses a report which claims couples argue 312 times a year, on average. I would say that is definitely not the case with the Hub and I: we argue maybe two or three times a year at most. We squabble all day long, so we don’t often have the stomach for a real barney.
Look at the list of things that irritate most wives:
- Stubble in the sink
- Dirty marks in the toilet
- Flicking TV channels
- Not replacing the toilet roll
- Leaving the seat up
- Leaving lights on
- Leaving dirty cups around the house
- Leaving wet towels on the floor/bed
- Hoarding stuff
- Not flushing the toilet
The only thing I can get him on is Number 9. This may come as a shock to regular readers but he’s a dreadful hoarder, you know. Here’s my own list in response:
- He washes the sink after shaving
- He knows how to use a toilet brush
- He flicks only at night when I am in bed
- He always replaces the toilet roll
- He has never left the seat up since that terrible November night of 2003 when I went to the loo in the dark and fell in
- He almost always turns off the lights: enough to get a pass if he forgets
- He hates to see dirty dishes left lying around and has us all quaking if we forget to take them out when we leave the room. That’s his mother’s fault: the only advice she gave me on marrying her son was to ‘always clear away dirty dishes at night; you’ll feel better for it’
- Wet towels left lying around? Perish the thought! Think of the mould
- …
- People who don’t flush unless they do a clear wee and/or need to save water are the scourge of the earth, is the gist of his thoughts on this last one
So I have no excuse to moan at him or reason to complain: does that not make him the most irritating husband in the world?
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