“You are the most irritating person I know,” she said over the coffee steaming under her imperious nose. “And that shirt, why?” she continued screwing up her face in obvious disgust.
“What wrong with my shirt? It’s clean and I ironed it specially just for you.”
“Its what is so irritating about you. You think and clean and ironed is all you have to think about. What about the clash of colours, blue shirt and red pants?”
“These are my favourite pants.”
“Well that says it all or should I say what you always say. And you never shave properly, there’s a small piece in your chin you leave dangling and if you have deodorant on its not working for you.”
“So I stink?”
“Yes, among so much I find irritating about you.”
“In other words I’m a pain in the arse?”
“You said it. Now pass me the sugar and don’t spill it over me like you did the last time.”
Written for: https://lindaghill.com/2018/02/02/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-3-18/
Morpethroad 
Michael ….. I cannot help but notice a certain flavour running through your posts. Is there some sort of domestic power struggle occurring in the household?
No my good sir, some prompts trigger my past and away I go, I try to tell myself its good for me to get this stuff out every so often. Thanks for your concern. The past is the past.
Actually my belief is that the past remains always in the present – but I get your meaning
That’s a good observation, you are right it sits there just in the background doesn’t it.
Oh she doesn’t sound like a very happy person.
No I don’t think so either.
Typical married couple?
That sounds like the voice of experience
Pick, bite, snap, snarl. Why do people insist on treating each other like that. So sad.
It is isn’t and all for nothing in the end apart from loneliness.