'When he'd get a business call...he'd follow me around the house': Woman gets revenge on spouse's annoying habit by flushing a toilet in a hiring manager's ear

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Isabella Penn
Nov 26, 2023 10:00 AM EST

Working from home has its perks. But you know how irritating it can get if you've ever tried to do it with other people in the house (like during the pandemic). My partner loves to come into my office and strike up a conversation whenever I'm in the groove. Which I enjoy, most times, except for when I'm running behind and have a lot to get done. So, the couple in the story both work from home, and her spouse has developed the annoying habit of following her around the house whenever he's on a business call. It started off innocent, with him claiming that her office had the best cell reception. So, she decided that whenever he came in, she'd get up and do a quick chore around the house. She soon realized that it wasn't just her office he was migrating to. It was everywhere she went. She tried to call him out on it, but he was always quick to deny it. According to the comments on this thread, Redditors think he might've genuinely didn't realize, as a lot of them have similar habits. Nonetheless, the OP was fed up and gave in to her intrusive thoughts with this petty revenge. 

Speaking of business calls, read this story next: '[It] had an international roaming plan': Boss forces IT worker to get a company phone so he can always be on call, worker maliciously complies.

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    Posted by u/Wary_Marzipan2294 15 hours ago Spouse learns how to choose good locations for business calls
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    TL;DR: Spouse used to follow me around the house while on important phone calls, while being annoyed by every little noise I made. Spouse denied it, I agreed that I was totally imagining things, and then I flushed a toilet in a hiring manager's ear.
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    When Spouse started working from home, I noticed that they had a phone habit that was no big deal when it was just family calling, but it became incredibly annoying during business hours. When Spouse would get a business call, they would come to wherever I was in the house,
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    and then since business calls require some level of professionalism, they would shush me if I made any noise, then give a weary sigh and ask the caller to please say again. Well, okay, I worked in an area with great phone reception in a house full of dead zones. So I
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    decided that when Spouse got a call, I'd just go do a quick chore somewhere else. Annoying, but we have to work together, and all. So next call, Spouse came to the bedroom where I was, and I went to the other end of the house to unload the dishwasher.
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    I didn't even realize Spouse had followed me until I heard the "sorry, could you repeat that?" and turned to find Spouse standing maybe a foot away from me, making shushing motions. This carried on long enough to be sure it was actually a pattern.
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    Phone rings, Spouse appears, I go make a sandwich, get shushed for putting my mayo- spreading knife in the sink. Another call, Spouse appears, I go OUTSIDE to the screened-in porch to do laundry, get shushed when I drop the full laundry basket on the floor by the dryer.
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    I pointed out the pattern two or three times. Spouse's response was that no, of course Spouse wasn't chasing me around the house and shushing me, that would be ridiculous, it's just coincidence that Spouse happened to wander in
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    momentarily while pacing around on the phone. Instead of being silent or leaving the room, I should just go about my business while Spouse meanders through. Now, I could have had a whole fight about this, but life's too short to argue with someone who brushes you off that
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    completely. So, okay. I agreed to accept Spouse's perspective as 100% fact. The next time Spouse "wandered" into my office while talking on the phone, I finished up my task and then went to the bathroom. By the way, some important
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    detail here. My dog was a failed service dog due to high anxiety, and when we took him in, he decided that he would be my personal bodyguard. Also, we lived in an older home where the bathroom was so tiny that it was hard to even dry off after a shower. No room for the dog. If I
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    shut him out, he would bark and scratch at the door. So since it was just us adults, and the bathroom was situated such that the only reason to be anywhere near it was if it was your destination anyway, I would leave the door open. I'm not
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    sure how much my dignity is worth, but it's less than the price of new woodwork. So there I was, with dog and Spouse both standing at the bathroom doorway, with dog worrying that the evil shower might get me, and Spouse
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    blathering on about their work history, and I have absolutely had it. Instead of struggling to wash my hands in a tiny trickle of water before slinking away, I stared at Spouse as I reached out to flush our horrifically inefficient, gloriously loud toilet from 1964. Spouse was gone
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    before the sound developed enough to become recognizable as a toilet. After the call, I said something to the effect of, "the next time you decide to chase me around this house while you're on the phone, I'm going to rearrange
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    csiddiqui 15 hr. ago I low key love it that he follows you around like a puppy just like your dog.
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    Knitsanity 13 hr. ago This is so strange What an odd thing for them to do and then act oblivious.
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    mocha_lattes_ 11 hr. ago They genuinely might not realize they are doing it. They might just subconsciously wander to where their spouse is wanting to be near then.
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    Somethingood27. 4 hr. ago I wander like a crazy person when on calls. As a middle manager in meetings all day I'll easily put up 10k steps throughout my apartment. It's absurd, I'll basically be doing laps.
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