Sometimes having a husband is like having an extra kid. Forget about responsibility and consideration. Boys will be boys, even when they get big! The funny thing is that they think they can slip this stuff by you and you won’t even notice. Millions of women on mom blogs across the country can’t be wrong! Multiple duplications of each item in this list make it impossible to attribute credit - these things are universal. So, here are the top ten annoying things about husbands…
1. If asked to do laundry, they will deliberately choose to do whites, and slip a red garment into the load. Voila: pink socks. You never ask them to do the laundry again. (They also are completely incapable of putting any laundry into the appropriate hamper, for some reason preferring the floor directly next to the hamper.)
2. If asked to let you sleep in, they will make as much noise as possible making the children as unhealthy a breakfast as they possibly can. Upon your appearing bleary-eyed in the kitchen to survey the scene in dismay, they will look aggrieved at your unappreciation of their efforts. You never ask to sleep in again.
3. If you hand them a ‘honey-do’ list they will pick the one that is the least important but most time consuming: while the lawn is unmowed and the car unwashed, they will meticulously spend an entire day at the Home Depot looking for just the right screw to hang a picture in the living room.
4. When at Home Depot they will invariable meet someone whom they must invite back to the house for beer and a grill out.
5. Which entails you going to the store to buy beer, meat, charcoal and paper plates. (Because it would be rude for them to leave their company.)
5. Grilling out is equated to them making dinner, even though you prepare the meat, bring them a beer, cook the veggies, keep them supplied with beer while they stand around the grill, remind them the meat is burning, serve the meal, make another beer run, and clean up afterwards while they relax with a beer. They will expect to be thanked profusely for making dinner and giving you a night off.
6. They maintain that Spike TV is primetime’s answer to Lifetime, Oxygen and HSN, that men have needed their own channel for millennia. For some unknown reason, two hundred and thirty seven hunting, fishing, automotive, golfing, racing, football, baseball, basketball, hockey and wrestling channels do not count as ‘man’ channels.
7. When watching TV they must continually change the channel to ensure they are not missing anything important; then they complain that nothing is ever on. However, they can watch seventeen consecutive hours of COPS without a bathroom break.
8. Girls on trampolines are admired for their brains and athletic ability. So are the women who hold up the numbers at fight matches. So are the waitresses at Hooters. Hey, those trays aren’t easy to carry!
9. The ideal day to get married is your birthday. This is presented as a romantic idea, but really ensures that they only have one day to remember. They invariably forget, anyway.
10. The final annoying thing men do is the most simple. They leave the seat up. There is nothing you can do about this; it is hard wired into DNA and is impossible to defeat.
Why do we love these overgrown children? The mom blogs have only one answer - because just when we think we can’t take it any more, they do something so sweet, so unexpected and so thoughtful that our hardened heart melts and we have to forgive them. To the hubbies out there - we salute you. We wouldn’t put up with this kind of behavior from anybody else. And if you leave the seat up one more time, I’ll –
Perfect, These are so true!!!
But you left out the one where they offer to give you a ‘backrub’….
It’s never just a backrub.
Barb (who has 3 little kids and one BIG kid)
These are all very true. Can we add one though:
* While looking into a completely full refrigerator men have the nerve to say “honey, what is there to eat? I am hungry!”
This was SO funny! Esecially the one about the BBQ’ing. My husband will “forget” to tell me he started the grill and bring in a tray of meat and say “dinners ready” and expect to feed our family of 5 w/ only meat. lol
amazing, but mine must be a weird breed, because he does so many other annoying things. He’ll do laundry just to complain I hadn’t done it. As for the toilet seat, well, I think in training my 5 year old to put it down, my hubby must have caught on. But mess left on the rim is another story!
Wow! You must know my husband. You just described him to a T. Thanks for letting me know that I’m not alone.
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