May 2020 Moms

GTKY 2/25



Hoping we haven't done this one yet... What are your biggest pet peeves ladies?
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Re: GTKY 2/25

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  • everything @thepretzelchick said.

    also, lying. I cannot stand lying.
  • @shamrocandroll when you mention the nail clipping coworkers are you talking about a full on manicure at their desk or just one or two clips?  Because I'm guilty of having nail clippers at my desk but use them only when I get a torn nail to trim it it back before it rips so we're talking like 2 clips once a month or less.  Does this make me a bad coworker or would this be acceptable?
  • I love my husband, but I hate his mess.

    I will likely have a heart attack in a fit of road rage because I cannot handle unsafe drivers.  The biggest issues I have currently are people running stop signs, tailgating on icy roads, and illegal passing on blind corners.  Don't endanger me and my family with your vehicle please.  I don't care if you want to ruin your own life at 3:00am with no one else on the road.

    Pedestrians who jump out into traffic from their safe haven on the sidewalk without looking or waiting for a gap in traffic/safe time to cross.  If I was a pedestrian, I certainly wouldn't like to be run over by a motor vehicle, just sayin.
  • @bananapanda I'm talking full manicures and several minutes of clipping noises.  And who knows what they're doing with the clippings.  One or two clips wouldn't make me ragey, although I would prefer people go into the bathroom to do it.  We're in open concept offices and the idea of one flinging over to someone else's desk makes me want to vom.  
    **TW**
    Me: 35 | H: 40
    Married Sept. 2013
    DS1: Nov 11, 2016 <3
    MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
    CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
    BFP!  8/24/19
    DS2: May 10, 2020 <3


  • @sunshinesea22 I use the "men's" bathroom all the time because it makes me so mad. I did this before pregnancy too.
     
    +1 to all the food noises and husband's who don't understand how to put things in their right place 
    Me: 30 | H: 34
    Married July 2018
    First-Time Mom
    EDD: 5/1/20  *please stick, baby*
  • Lol, but yes, to most of these. Trying to explain to my husband that if he gets irritated because sink is full of dishes, then putting them into the damn dishwasher makes us both happy. Instead, he wants to leave them on the counter, 2 feet from dishwasher, and won't stack them because "then the bottom gets dirty."

    He also doesn't wipe crumbs off counter after meals, won't just wash knives right away after a meal-which I care about because we only have one decent knife for cutting fruit, that I normally rinse directly after any fruit use, and wash at end of day so it's clean for breakfast, and I only use it for fruit. He uses it for anything/everything, including super fatty sausage or whatever, and leaves it when it's his turn to clean up after dinner. (While I'm disabled, dinner and cleanup is his job, and breakfast is mine. When I'm hale, we switch off). Then in the morning, I have to vigorously scrub it for a long time while myself and kids are starving for food. And I'm so clumsy, me scrubbing hard on a knife is basically how I've gotten every knife wound ever. Ours are wood handled, so just soaking or using dishwasher isn't preferred. Hence, I wash knives immediately after dinner, after loading dishwasher. Always. Even if it's stupid late and I'm tired and putting off the pots and pans until morning. But every time he cooks or even just cuts something while reheating leftovers he leaves knives dirty for me, but doesn't even let me know, so I have to swear at it in the morning. Irk!!!

    And the pee on rim of toilet, that inevitably runs down bowl, and so I have to clean toilet and a bit of floor every 2 days or the smell in the bathroom gets of nauseous. True story-my 3.5 year old is neater than my husband and cleans up after himself. Including not getting pee on floor, even when standing to seed. And wipes counters after cooking, eating, or brushing teeth. Son also puts seat down and flushes at a 99% rate. Husband, maybe a 45% on seat down and 30% on flushing pee. And he'll clean toilet if I ask, but ONLY the inside of the bowl. Not the tank, lid, seats, outside of bowl, or floor. Ya know, the mess HE makes. Kinda hoping baby 3 is a girl, so it'll be me and two daughters giving him grief and our son showing it's possible to not suck. Maybe then DH will get it. Or I could just not clean up random period drips that inevitably happen, and let them stay on toilet and floor, etc. (Kidding, because while drips happen on bad days, I couldn't bring myself to not clean them).
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    Me: 33
    DH: 32
    Married 7/18/15
    1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
    Team green turned BLUE!
    2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18 
    Team green turned PINK!
    Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green

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  • @soprano19 ugh, we have a litter box in our master bathroom, it’s across the way from the shower but to get out of the shower and step on cat litter is terrible!  I keep a little dust pan and brush on top of the litter box so I can try to prevent this very scenario.
  • Add to the annoying things list husband not cleaning the litter box as frequently as it’s needed, I’d totally do it if I was allowed, I don’t mind, but it’s seriously not fair to the kitties.
  • +1 on the dirty floors @soprano19.  It's so bad right now because our yard is terribly muddy and we have a doggy door so our dog is coming and going and tracking mud across the hardwood floor constantly.  Running the roomba daily helps a lot but still isn't perfect.
  • @pirateduck I think you can do the litterbox if you use gloves and a facemask. Or maybe if YH sees you putting on gloves and a facemask, he might be motivated to clean it more often?
  • @ruby696 hmm...  maybe, but I clean the whole rest of the house regularly, I feel like he should be able to handle this one chore!  Eventually the cats protest and that's when he gives in.  
  • @ruby696 late people is probably my biggest. I'm always early (a few times since have dd we've been late because she decides to poop right when we're leaving) my mother and her family are one of those people who you give a time and they show up 3 hours later. Mh isn't that bad but he's one of those people where everyone is ready and heading out the door and he decides he needs to poop, or clean the drain, or collect all the trash to bring out. He was late to our wedding because he needed to bring the trash to the dump before going??? I was also late but because my hair dresser decided to book another person before me and that person needed extra time I almost killed her, I was only 5 minutes or so late. 

    Mine is people who don't think they are right when you can show them proof they are wrong. And when you tell/show them they are wrong they tell you well that's your opinion when clearly it's based on facts not opinions. 
  • @jhysmath - I swear every time we are getting ready to go somewhere, about the walk out the door, MH decides he needs to poop. It's infuriating. 
  • I tend to be on the slightly fashionably late side, not because I'm trying to be inconsiderate of people's time, but because I'm a time optimist ie I always think I can accomplish things faster than it actually takes me. I'm not talking 30+ minutes late, but today I was 10 minutes late to a work meeting...they don't need me there to start or anything. I'm on time to things that actually matter if I'm not on time (doctor's appts etc)

    I don't appreciate people who show up 10-30 minutes early to parties at my house. Um excuse me, I'm still getting ready. My in laws all showed up 20 minutes early to our house for my 30th birthday party and I was not ready yet and then my husband got mad at me for not being present with our early guests!!!
  • @sunshinesea22 I’m with you on the being late.  I will be late to work because I think I have enough time left before it’s time to go to water the plants, wash the dishes, fold some laundry, stop at the post office, etc.  and then before I know it I’m way out of time.  Also I am only productive in the morning so I fear if I don’t try and get all things done before leaving the house that they won’t get done at all!
  • @soprano19 omg the facial hair in the bathroom sink infuriates me!

    Empty boxes in the cupboard, if you empty it, throw it away. That way I don't get my hopes up for a granola bar when there are none!

    Texting and driving. I get so angry when I see people looking down when driving. The lives of everyone around you is more important than your text.

    At work when women call to schedule their ultrasound "to find out the gender"...uh you realize they're looking for SO much more than that, right?
  • lisushlisush member
    edited February 2020
    I'm on board with most of these and could make a list of about 50. Everything irritates me lol, especially while pregnant. My top 3 at the moment would probably be:

    1. Drivers and all their idiot ways
    2. MH being oblivious to basic standards of cleanliness (+1 on the dishes, trash, hair trimming stuff)
    3. Incompetent employees make me extremely rageful

    Is it so much to ask for people to do their jobs and be considerate humans? I feel like that's really simple.

    Edit: removed apostrophe
  • @chewie5990 I wasn’t originally thinking about mislabeling “ Millennial” but that is a major pet peeve of mine. It seems like older generations just assume that everyone younger than them are millennials— wrong. We’re actually in our late-20s and in our 30s.

    I agree with most of the pet peeves. My biggest pet peeve is when people make assumptions. I’m very deliberate in what I say. I mean what I say and I say what I mean. Nothing to read into. Related, I also don’t like when people expect me to read in-between-the-lines. That’s not my job. One of the reasons why I married DH who is extremely blunt. 
    Me: 28  DH: 29
    FTM
    BFP 08/25/19, EDD 05/04/20
  • I used to be the type who was always super early to everything, but DH and DD really slow me down. DH is always making us late to unimportant things.  Mostly family functions when they say they're eating at a certain time or want to leave at a certain time we hardly ever make it anymore which drives me nuts.  Also agree on the husband having to poop anytime I ask him to do anything or go anywhere. He literally can't change tasks without "pooping" for 20 minutes.  If it's anything important though like an appointment etc I make sure we are always on time (usually 15 minutes early).  

    @ieles2531 I'm with you on letting kids watch shows at full volume (or sometimes even adults).  Sure there are times I'm starving and NEED to go to mexican and DD is beyond tired or having a rough day so we'll prop a phone up with some Blippi but I turn the volume down where even I can't hear it because I don't want to drive people nuts. 
  • You guys are cracking me up with the husband pooping thing. I didn't realize it, but MH does the same thing a lot of the time!
  • +1 for basically everything you all have said already.

    My biggest pet peeve is when people feel the need to talk on their cell phone or answer a call while checking out at a store.
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    TTC#1 July 2015 
    • BFP: 9/16/15 — MC: 11/8/15 Blighted Ovum
    • BFP: 3/10/16 — Baby Girl born 11/20/16
    TTC#2 April 2019 
    • BFP: 9/12/19 — EDD 5/15/20

  • This conversation has led me to a new theory.  I think, especially as pregnant women, we just poop when we need to/can poop.  I suspect, perhaps our husbands may be trying to avoid using unknown toilets/bathrooms outside of our own homes and pooping takes so long because they are trying to poop when it's not really time to poop.
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