What is something that makes you unreasonably angry that isn't religion or politics?

My husband does these things that make me crazy so this is an opportunity for a private vent. I'm sure other Redditors have SOs or roomates who do these things, they drive me nuts! * I'll do a huge load of dishes and he'll leave one dirty plate in the sink. That feeling of accomplishment of finishing the dishes is instantly negated by quiet yet seething rage that he won't just wash that one plate.

  • Will use all the toilet paper, leave the empty cardboard inner on the holder, and then balance a new roll of toilet paper on top without replacing it. AAARGGH.

  • People who leave used ear buds, nail clippings or used condoms lying around. Ew.

  • After cleaning the whole kitchen until it is quite literally gleaming, some people will then eat greasy chicken or whatever with their fingers and proceed to touch every surface and appliance door in the kitchen, leaving grease everywhere. Guess who has to re clean basically the whole kitchen? I come very close to a rage stroke sometimes. Just rinse your hands off people!

  • Leaving the tops off the shampoo bottle, tooth paste, moisturiser etc. It's a small thing but why are some people just incapable of replacing the tops!?

  • After having a great meal cooked for them, will them proceed to put greasy plate with about one spoonful of food on it, back into the fridge. Cannot scrape the plate and at least leave it in the sink to be washed. Fridge shelf now greasy, so have to remove plate, scrape it, wash it. Then remove fridge shelf and everything on the shelf temporarily, because I obviously have nothing better to do with my time. Sigh.

  • Leaves pairs of shoes strewn about the place so that one is always tripping over them and injuring oneself. This habit rapidly improves when the offender has shoes tossed out of the front door onto the street. I can highly recommend this method for habitual offenders.

  • If putting a pan with oil in it will not drain off oil, will then proceed to put pan plus oil into sink of water to 'let is soak'. You then have to stick your arm into a gunky oil spill disgustingness, remove plug, removing offending pan, clean the sink out thoroughly, and then wash up both pan and your arms which are now covered in oily gunk. Ugh.

  • Some people make a production of sweeping the house, only to leave the dust and dirt in a pile in the corner. First gust of wind, it's back wherever it came from. One wonders sometimes what the object of the exercise was, because you have to re - do the sweeping anyway, so it would have been quicker and less rage inducing to just have done it yourself.

  • Flicking of sponge covered in foam around the bath and/or splashing like Shamu at Seaworld. Some people who have this annoying habit make a previously clean bathroom look like a combination of the Nile delta and an explosion at 'Soap Scum R Us'.

  • Eating food you've left in the fridge for a later time, for when you REALLY feel like it, after you've appraised the malefactor of your intention to eat it and to please leave it alone. All that anticipation is wasted. Bonus aggro points for eating it a couple of bites at a time, as if the person concerned doesn't notice.

  • Offering to help with the cooking and then proceeding to maniacally 'stir' the soup, marinara sauce etc so that it ends up all over the (previously clean) stove top, walls, and CEILING. How is that even possible!? And how am I supposed to get it off the ceiling before it dries into a crusty mess!?

  • Eating all the sweets out of a packet and then putting the empty wrappers back in the packet and back in the food cupboard. The bin is one foot away from the food cupboard, are you serious?! This behaviour only leads to (a) disappointment because no sweets, and (b) homicidal thoughts due to having to clean up after someone else's banquet.

I can probably come up with more but my eyebrow is starting to do that weird twitchy thing. I do feel better though - thanks for the vent Redditors!


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