Monthly Archives: January 2010

[Apparently, men have trouble with garbage.  I wrote about my husband's inability to use the trash can a while back and now we hear from Maria in Alabama whose husband seems to have a similar problem.   Thanks for sending this in Maria!  And maybe your husband will someday learn to actually use the garbage can the way it's intended.

Have a story about your husband or boyfriend you'd like to see here?  Send them to me, along with any pictures, to myhusbandisannoying@live.com.]

Here’s an annoying thing my husband of 14 years will not stop doing. Yes, even after 14 years, I still can’t train him right.

In our kitchen we have a smallish white trash can. When my husband Bill has an item that is too big to fit in the trash can, such as a pizza box or his “Silk” soy milk cartons (shown in the photo), he will set it BESIDE the trash can instead of just taking the thing to the outside garbage bin, which is literally only 16 footsteps from the kitchen trash can! 16 steps. I walked the distance to check. We have a small house and the outside garbage bin is right outside our back door, which adjoins the kitchen.  But he can’t walk those extra 16 steps, so he litters the floor with his extra-husky-sized trash. This is a weekly event.

So you might ask why I don’t just put a larger can in the kitchen. I never wanted a larger trash can inside the house because I know with certainty that if I put a larger one in there, Bill would fill it up to the brim with all kinds of stinky waste products and NEVER take it outside until our house smelled so bad I’d have to move out. (He is immune to bad odors.) I’d rather take out smaller amounts of trash more frequently to prevent odors. Plus, like I said, there is a huge garbage bin just 16 footsteps away from the small one.

So this is how we live. He’s a very nice person except for his bad habit.

I managed to get a photo of his crime. It wasn’t hard … all I had to do is wait until he bought soy milk again.

-Maria

[Our guest poster today is Colette, whose husband has a strange idea of what makes a funny picture.  Thanks for the laughs, Colette!

Got a story about your man that you think would make other people laugh? Send them, along with any pictures, to me at: myhusbandisannoying@live.com.]

We’ve heard a lot about ‘hold-his-arm-out-while-he-tries-to-make-us-look-like-a-cute-couple’ travel photos. My (almost as annoying) husband insists on the ‘I’m-really-funny-because-I’m-pointing-to-something’ photo. The key to the shot is a Vanna-like pose, which he does so well in his green (yes I said green) sweatshirt that he wore every day of our recent trip to Barcelona. (And he doesn’t even know about the infamous green sweater).

It all started a few years back when he traveled to China on a business trip, and e-mailed me a photo of himself:

Can you tell he’s standing in front of the Great Wall of China? Yeah, it was funny – and I made the mistake of laughing – and now all we have are travel pictures like this one:

He thinks it’s even funnier when he makes a face while pointing:

And as the day goes on he tries out a new move:

Shall we give him extra points for creativity? The worst part is that he makes me do ‘the pose’ as well:

He refused to climb up the stairs until I pointed to the art museum. (Sigh…) But his favorite was this one where he is pointing to the… wait for it… yup, it’s a subway wall:

-Colette