Husband, wife, partner, lover, roommate, friend – it doesn’t matter what the relationship status. If you share a kitchen with someone, certainly they are going to do something that wind up irritating. Here are our Top 5 things that we hear time and time again.
Irritating Things Your significant other Does in the Kitchen
1. Puts dirty dishes anywhere but the sink or dishwasher. Congratulations, you may have succeeded in putting a dish virtually on the dishwasher however, not inside it. Your fingertips actually came mere inches from your dishwasher door handle, yet you decided that the extra two seconds in your life just weren’t worth being wasted on this kind of trivial task of opening a door and putting a dish on the rack. Now you have two extra seconds to spend on whatever useless thing you were wanting to do next.
2. Leaves everything open. Walking in the kitchen after you’ve left every drawer, door and container open is similar to navigating the world’s most depressing obstacle course.
3. Puts near-empty containers back in the fridge or pantry. You know what? Today I woke up and was actually getting excited about a bowl of cereal for breakfast. What are you expected to do with a few drops of milk you left in the container? And what about the crumbs populating the bottom of the chip bag in the pantry? The nearly scraped-clean jar of peanut butter? Exactly what is this, a casino game of “last one to touch the container is actually a rotten egg”?
4. Doesn’t return items to where they belong. I’m glad the package of deli meat managed to get back into the fridge. But it really doesn’t belong draped over the top of the orange juice bottle. It goes in the drawer, with the cheese, which somehow is currently shoved into the butter compartment on the door.
5. Piles wet kitchen towels on the counter. Were you aware that Newton’s fourth law of physics claims that a piled wet towel on the counter will remain wet until I come in there and smack you with it until it’s dry?
OK, irritation aside, at the conclusion of your day we understand these small trifles are rather unimportant in the grand scheme of things. We are with our partner because we love them, quirks and everything, and know that the things they may lack in organization or etiquette skills, they more than make up for in cooking, working hard or a variety of tasks throughout the house that God knows we would never dream about doing. Understanding how to live with, and dare I only say appreciate, these idiosyncrasies is perhaps all part of sharing your life with a loved one. After all, everybody is able to be a little irritating every now and then. Yes, even you.
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