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My wife, bless her heart, leaves everything partially open. Not even just open, but she'll screw the lid on jars just enough where if I pick it up by the top th
by o10449366 4y ago
My wife, bless her heart, leaves everything partially open. Not even just open, but she'll screw the lid on jars just enough where if I pick it up by the top they'll drop. It drives me crazy.
- ddalex 3y agoAre you married to my wife ?!
- Miserlou57 4y agoThat should be a felony
- KiranRao0 4y agoRight to jail
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- malandrew 4y agoLol. This sounds like my house. My spouse and my nephew (who lives with us) cannot for the life of them ever close any kitchen cabinet doors. They both always leave them ajar, never leaving them fully opening but never fully closing them. It drives me nuts.
- coding123 4y agoDo the cabinets have those magnets or latches that have an annoying sound? Some people avoid the "hit" and leave them slightly ajar.
- mikereedell 4y agoSpending a Saturday putting soft-close hinges on every cabinet door in my house was one of the best quality-of-life investments ever.
- jamiek88 4y agoI had to consciously decide to find it cute. It’d cause too much conflict otherwise!
- btach 4y agoAre you me from a parallel universe? My wife does this, bless her heart.
- alliao 4y agoare you leaving toilet seats up or something to induce this behaviour...
- everyone 4y agoAll toilet users should set the seat to their preferred setting prior to using it.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI've met a lot of women who do stuff like this... I asked one why and she told me it's because they don't want to be a bother. Fully closing the door makes noise, screwing on lids can make it hard for people to open them later. So they don't. They close it just enough and leave the object in that almost there state.
- rjzzleep 4y agoI think this is more an anecdote than anything else. My wife leaves all sorts of stuff open, and it's really because she's not paying attention, i.e. most of the time she's not fully present. I'm glad to have read this, it gives me a little comfort to see that other people deal with same issues. Sometimes I just close the door for her when she's in the restroom. I feel like a lot of these habits come from having lived alone for a while after leaving home. I have a lot of habits that I'm 100% certain I didn't do growing up because my mom would tell me not to. I would probably have kept them if I had started living with other people later. My mom on the other hand now does the things she used to tell me not to and I can't help but think that it is related to not caring anymore after living in solitude for decades.
- eru 3y agoHave you looked into an ADHD diagnosis?
- coding123 4y agoI'm getting older and one of the things I started to notice is that men are just there, doing things that are generally... straightforward. I mean I guess posting on hacker news is probably pretty strange to a lot of people - so ignore that. Anyway, women however, I feel like they build these neurotic behaviors - like learned things that just stick with them forever. Like ouch, the pan was hot, don't do that again, but for EVERYTHING. So by the time they are old, just nothing they do makes any sense, to anyone, even other women.
- sh34r 3y agoI find that everyone has these quirks, regardless of gender. Sometimes it makes the world a more interesting place. Sometimes it's utterly baffling. Like my friend who refuses to use tissues because his parents taught him to blow his nose with a paper towel instead. Maybe we're the weird ones for believing Big Kleenex's ads though! One gender difference is that when these quirks are presented to men, they're a bit more likely to change to a more sensible method. Women tend to get annoyed about the male tendency to suggest solutions to everything. Annoyance can motivate stubbornness.
- egeozcan 4y agoPeople always think that they are compatible if they share more or less a common understanding in big subjects, but stuff like these really test you. One of my exes hated onion, and when I look back, this made my life way more insufferable than having to hear the (to me) weird political opinions. "Oh I'd like to have this salad but please no onion, and please don't use a knife that's used to cut onion when preparing!". "I think I smell onion, apparently they ignored the knife comment, can you tell them to pack this and maybe you can eat it back home and I'll just go to the [insert food stall name], so meet in 15 mins there?". Ugh.
- rendall 4y agoWhen my girlfriend at the time told me she doesn't like soup (any soup, of any kind) I knew it wouldn't work out.
- lynx23 4y agoEntitled to special treatment. A modern phenomenon. A good sign that you should move on to a different partner.
- egeozcan 4y agoAsking nicely and not protesting when they didn't manage is okay in my book, to be honest. That was not the problem. Having to experience stuff like these (everyone has their quirks) regularly and learning to deal with it is the hard part in a relationship, is what I'm saying.
- Reason077 4y agoMy flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She'll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh!
- hoseja 4y agoIMO a good thing, lets them ventilate better. Not cancelling the timer is the wrong thing there.
- Reason077 4y agoNot sure about that. It's normal to open a microwave periodically to inspect, stir the food etc to ensure it is heating evenly. Automatically cancelling the timer each time you open it would be very annoying.
- hoseja 4y agoI meant, leaving the microwave open would be fine if they also cancelled the timer after being done with it.
- LinAGKar 4y agoInteresting, I think all microwaves I've had require you to press start to restart them after opening and closing the door.
- bolanyo 4y agoMine doesn't.
- roelschroeven 4y agoMine doesn't even have a start button. It starts whenever the door is closed and there is at least one second left on the timer.
- jwineinger 4y agoI've finally found our marriage doppelgangers!
- XajniN 4y agoI’ve never met a woman who could close stuff properly.