Things people do that baffle you 2

But (except in a minority of truly tragic cases), they aren't born addicts.

I can fully understand why people continue to smoke, but why do they initially make the decision to start the journey into certain addiction?

You're right - I was once one of these annoying people until suddenly I realised what a whinging knobhead I looked and stopped doing it immediately.
I barely post anything now and feel so much better about my life because I finally realised that online "friends" are not friends and they don't really give a flying cucumber about what you think.
Never posted photos of my kids in hospital but I was a serial pass-agg idiot at one time. I hate that old version of me.

People who rush around supermarkets expecting people to just jump out of the way. I'm shopping, I'm looking at products, reading labels due to allergies and ingredients I carnt mix with my medication. I also carnt walk fast due to arthritis so I really carnt just move quickly out of the way. I shop to keep my independence as long as I possibly can. Yes people may be in a hurry, that's not my problem. Just wait because I'm not going to create pain for myself and jump out of the way just so miss oh so important can exit the shop faster.

People who watch the Michael Jackson movie. Baffling.
People who watch it with their DCs or DGCs. Utterly abhorrent.

Also, I am very empathetic towards plants and cannot bear to see them die of thirst. You see so many cafes and shops where - probably very expensive - bay and box trees in tubs die a miserable death because no-one can be bothered to come out and chuck a bit of water on them. It's ridiculous! Don't they realise plants in tubs have no access to ground water????

Jeez. And then they leave the brown corpses there for months, looking horrible.

Pubs, on the other hand, seem very good at watering their pots and hanging baskets. Good for them - it's not rocket science.

This could just be my local co-op...but

I always take a shopping bag - I haven't needed a plastic bag for years - and I get it out, and start packing my few bits of stuff, upon which the cashier asks me if I need a bag. I smile tightly and say 'No, thanks!' but I really want to snarl!!! 😕

So if someone is cycling what you deem quickly (probably just using the council- designated cycle infrastructure to get to work) do you want them on the road or shared pavement / cycle path? If the council has designated a path shared use you should expect cyclists on it. And they should be cycling at whatever speed they need to be moving at to make cycling a viable means of transport.

You cannot commute by bike at snails pace. It’s not viable. You don’t get to work in time. Cycle paths are provided as the council wants people to commute. You cannot expect people to only use cycle paths / shared path at a dawdling / recreational pace.

Then other customers need to learn how to wait then

@DeposedPresident "Might be that one can't stand how the other drives?"

This surely wouldn't account for the large number of couples performing this little routine! When I used to have a daily commute into London I estimate that around 50% of couples did this.

Might be that one can't stand how the other drives?

DH is an awful driver and always in a hurry because he's always late. I either shut my eyes when he drives or insist on driving myself. So we do the railway station shuffle at times because his driving gets thoroughly on my nerves.

(Mind you, DH doesn't drink and somehow I care less about his driving when I plan to have a couple of glasses!)

The "railway station shuffle" - whereby the husband (who is the one who is catching the train) drives the car to the station with his wife in the passenger seat, and then the two of them get out, hold everyone else up while they say their goodbyes and then the wife gets into the car and drives off. The same performance repeats itself later in the day, when the wife drives the car to the station, they do the same little dance in reverse and the husband then drives back to the house.

Why can't the wife drive both to and from the station? [NB seen with other relationships too, not just husband and wife]

Park so close as to block my driver’s door on my car then fuck off without checking I can get in. I couldn’t. Had to climb over from the passenger seat. wtf?

Or even worse, under a toastie and it gets stuck so on top of not being able to use the paper serviette, you can't eat the toastie because it has bits of paper stuck to it.

When Im elderly I will go shopping on a Saturday thanks very much. The world does not revolve around the young or those in a hurry despite what they might think.

Quiet libraries are a thing of the past now.

Because they're addicts.

That’s really helpful thank you I’ll check it out.
I quite often have a shopping trolley wheelie thing with me and it’s a nightmare navigating round the cars with that, so I really feel for wheelchair users or people with buggies /prams etc.

I’ve got plenty of photos as it’s almost a daily occurrence with that car in particular.

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"they always seem to forget to tell you that the main purpose of the job is very frequently to kill (or threaten to kill) people and to have a very good chance of being killed yourself."

That is understood, but young men think they're immortal.
They were lying about their age and signing up at 15 for WWI...

Cyclists, usually MAMILs, who use the shared footpath/cycle track as if they are trying to get selected for the Olympics .
Cyclists who insist on cycling on the road creating a tail back of other road users, when there is a cycle track right next to said road. I've even seen it happen on the 70mph sections of the ring road around Bristol (ironically the hq for the national cycle network).

People who buy their kids illegal e-bikes/scooters

People who hit a cat with their car and don't bother to find the owners or even just take it to a vet, leaving it to suffer.

Eating caviar, I've tried it several times and I do not understand.

Not waiting for people to get off the train / bus or out of the lift before trying to enter

Those signs are better! We would need PSA ads played on TV and in reels to get people to understand it 🤣

I didn't do motorway driving as a learner (no motorway close but it also wasn't part of the test then I don't think), but did some duel carriageway driving. A week after I passed I drove on the motorway and I love motorway driving, much prefer it over driving through towns!

People in the UK are convinced that changing lanes is horrendously dangerous and want to do it as little as possible or when they have as much control over it as possible, so they will get into the correct lane ASAP rather than wait in case it is more dangerous later. That seems to be my observation from many years of lane threads on various forums and particularly speaking to older relatives. I don't know if it's because motorway driving wasn't allowed at all by learners until recently. When I had driving lessons in Germany I was on the Autobahn on about lesson 3, as soon as I had basic control over the car my instructor wanted me on there. I was terrified but it was actually fine! I quite quickly got used to it and didn't find it any worse than driving on any other kind of road.

It's true you need to be aware of where other cars are around you when changing lanes but you should be aware of that anyway. TBH I now find it very strange how much British drivers (on average) worry about this.

But I also think the German signs for zipper merging are great: