SultanOfSwing

Ah, you've reminded me of another pet peeve - my wife's handbag. Specifically when I'm asked to find something in, what can only be described as a bottomless pit filled with useless crap, old receipts and invariably not the thing I was commissioned to find. That's usually sitting on the kitchen table ...

cindyabs

That is indeed a male fright zone.

SultanOfSwing

Not so much fright as annoyance.

cindyabs

Ah, but you never saw my ex's face when he had to reach into my purse,

SultanOfSwing

No, you're right there.

Jerseygirl

My MIL doesn't have a cell phone and has virtually stopped answering the house phone because 'it will be someone trying to sell insurance'.

SultanOfSwing

Invariably it is. With us anyway.

Pet peeve #6,125,221,566,888,885 - spam phone calls and telemarketing.

paranoidandroid

I understand that all those people seem to have to identify with something, rather than just being proud to just be an American, and letting it go.
If you understand, you'd realise there's nothing to be gained by dividing a country into a nation of subcultures. All it does is breed unrest.
You have a nice day too.

paranoidandroid

Pet peeve #3, people that won't answer their mobiles at 11.45 at night.. don't they realise that they should have them on 24/7?

nethead

People who leave stuff in their pockets, and their underwear inside their jeans/trousers with one leg of said trousers inside out, when I go to wash them.

paranoidandroid

Never, I mean never, accept the invitation to "look for it in my handbag", from any woman. Womens handbags should be off limits to any sensible male.

Jerseygirl

Absolutely. My husband would never dare look in my handbag...ever.

paranoidandroid

If you're talking about your OH, then it's time he learned to do his own laundry. If you're talking about a kid, then forget it, that's going to keep happening.

paranoidandroid

I learned that from my Dad... "never look inside a womans handbag, nothing good will ever come from that". He's right, he never goes into my Mum's handbag for anything.

SultanOfSwing

For the sake of a quiet life, and when SWMBO happens to have a squirming toddler with a dirty arse that needs wiping, I'll go along with it. Most of the time it's only to find her phone anyway.

The contents are irrelevant, I'm not scared of a bunch of old receipts and emergency fanny pads. It's the disorganisation that I don't like

Is that a 'decree from on high', or is he just a big chicken?