My wife says standing over the sink at 3am cleaning tea infusers with a brass tooth brush, dremel tool, and dental picks is not normal. Is she right?

Context: I currently have a back injury and as such my sleep schedule has been destroyed. There are days that I simply cannot get comfortable no matter where I sit/lie.

The other night I was restless and couldn’t get comfortable but was feeling tired. I wanted to brew myself a cup of tea but as luck would have it we had run out of fill-able tea bags. I pulled out the metal tea infusers and found that due to an improper cleaning at last use and who knows how long they had been sitting idle they were absolutely disgusting. Some had mold spots and one appeared to be rusting (how aluminum rusts I don’t know).

I REALLY wanted my tea so I busted out my cleaning tools and got to work. She woke up to use the restroom and heard me in the kitchen and made it a point to call me out for being weird and that no one in their right mind would be doing what I was doing.

Is that a fair assessment? I only spent about 50 minutes cleaning them.

TheInsane42,
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Nobody in their right mind would be awake at those times… when the body would cooperate.

My wife goes to the attic to do the laundry when she can’t sleep. However, I sleep trough anything (even when they blown up an ATM on the parking lot behind the house) so I’m fine with that.

That your wife found you cleaning after she woke to go to the toilet, I see no problem. Having back issues keeping you awake isn’t normal and on the pther hand, when you look around at what is ‘normal’, would you want to be like that?

Maybe next time skip the powertools, but enjoy your tea when you can’t enjoy your sleep.

man_in_space,
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    TheInsane42,
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    Really not much to say. The window of the bedroom was open and the wall with the ATM in it was in a straight ling about 50m behind the house. The 1st thing I noticed about the attempt to steal cash from the ATM by blowing it up was when the police was at the door the next morning asking if I heard something. I slept trough it all. (and still I wake up when one of the cats is about to throw up)

    intensely_human,

    Who cares if it’s normal. If a man wants to clean his tea infuser he shouldn’t get nagged about it.

    onparole,

    Talk with your woman, cretin.

    funkless_eck,

    Gustavo Fring would find your cleaning… …acceptable.

    ShittyRedditWasBetter,

    I mean there is being restless and there is being loud and starting a project at 3am.

    I’m not saying you’ve done a bad thing here but yeah you are blurring trust line of weird behavior.

    Gonkulator,
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    Your shift is almost over isnt it?

    Gonkulator,
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    Your shift is almost over isnt it?

    vinceman,

    Similar energy youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0?si=ketuKAoi9YZmNKMr

    blackbrook,

    I’ll avoid the word normal, but definitely not something most people would ever do. (It’s the sort of thing I might do though.)

    Obviously I don’t know the details of your back pain, but I would caution you that doing stuff like that (focusing intently on something in front of you, possibly bending over slightly, for an extended period of time) is probably not good for your back.

    SendMePhotos,

    It’s not normal, but it’s not not normal.

    journey01,

    Totally not normal for me, I don’t know what’s normal for you…

    markr,

    Use a regular toothbrush.

    Mcballs1234,
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    Shit my cleaning at 3 am is more productive and better for some reason, I have scoliosis and it makes it hard to sleeptimes, so I play games or walk around in circles or some other random stuff.

    SirEDCaLot,

    Not normal? Sure.
    But it’s also not normal to have a back injury that prevents you from sleeping.
    So if you can use your sleep time to do something productive that helps you, that may not be normal (IE common) but it is a good idea.

    Quexotic,

    When you need tea, you need tea.

    ImpossibilityBox,

    The truest of all statements.

    vizzi,

    Hey man, I totally understand you. Not weird at all.

    My back is fucked so I have the same bouts of restlessness at times.

    It sucks and I don’t wish it on anyone. Hope you heal quickly.

    LazaroFilm,
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    If you have back pain this may not be the right activity for you. Scrubbing g while bend over a sink. I don’t care about the time but the activity doesn’t help your injury.

    ImpossibilityBox,

    Absolutely understood but when you are uncomfortable sitting in any position, or lying down, again, in any position, sometimes standing is the only option.

    It probably would have been weirder if she came out and just saw me quietly standing in the middle of the room.

    LazaroFilm,
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    May I suggest light yoga. Something like sun salutation I have back issues too and this have helped a lot.

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