Things people do that baffle you 2

I don’t understand it either. When my students were all excited about joining the military it was very hard for me not to say, “It’s not like you think it is. It’s not like a video game. There are long periods of tedium and sudden adrenaline rushes. You know you’re volunteering to get killed or maimed, right? And/ or to kill or maim other people. Even if you never see active combat, you’ve joined a death machine.” I cannot imagine the stress of being a military spouse. How could you ever sleep, knowing that your partner is in danger thousands of miles away?
Obviously, those who join see it very, very
different to me. They find great value in it and I respect that. But I don’t get it. I would not want a child of mine to be sent to the war in Iran right now.

People that respond to a post that has a slight grammatical or spelling error, pretending they have no idea what the OP means. You’re either thick or being goady.

I recognise quite a few of these types on the threads that appear about potential downsides of WLI.

I also find it baffling how they seem to have aligned so deeply with their brand that they may as well be wearing knitted scarves and beanies in their team colours. They get so angry when anyone dares to question anything, and every thread ends with a group of them congratulating themselves and mocking the 'uninformed' people wanting to discuss a few things, who they claim are just jealous of them and angry, via some convoluted 'reasoning'.

@Puffalicious

I'm aware that you're easy going and enjoying this light-hearted thread. I must admit that one of the things that baffles me is how people seem to be quite at ease in posting notices that are grammatically incorrect. It is unusual for me to pick up on such a thing, but this half of a sentence had two errors in it:-

, when you've drove at excess speed past many cars who are waiting.

Indeed, it is totally baffling, but I hope that you'll forgive me for asking - were the errors intentional? I did note that you used some colloquialisms in other posts, so it could have been intentional, obvs.

Happy weekend!

God's sake! It's NOT too soon, it's being cognisant of the road conditions & moving over accordingly. These are local roadworks that everyone knows about, not a motorway/ dual carriageway where you're unfamiliar & it may come upon you quickly.

Think what you all like, but I, for one, will not be letting you in. And it's not just me, loads of people refuse to let them in. Anyway, enough from a light-hearted thread!

Agree completely… using only one lane too soon makes the traffic jam worse!
Merging in turn is far more efficient

Frequently these websites are run by former doctors who have had their licenses to practice medicine revoked for one reason or another. As you can imagine, their career options are limited at that point.

Like a pharmacy?

Unless it's free-flowing, traffic should be fairly evenly distributed between the lanes to use up all the available road space, then merge-in-turn at the point one lane closes. If people are able to 'bomb' down and indicate to be let in, it suggests the full lane is not free-flowing but the closing lane is empty - the conditions for merge-in-turn are therefore met. Imagine there was no lane closure. Would one lane be full and the other empty?
[edited to add: the ones 'bombing down' are using both lanes correctly; though if everyone else was using them correctly there wouldn't be space to 'bomb']

Ask to see their "research" 😁

I know others have mentioned similar but, my sister, an anti vaxxer, refused all covid jabs but is quite happy to have mounjaro.

it’s very odd. One friend in particular (who has 2 degrees) told me that all vaccines are bad and she sent me link to a website by an American doctor (who also says all vaccines are bad). This man does have a medical degree but is actually a businessman. His whole website is a shop to sell his expensive pills and potions and is dressed up as medical advice. Why an intelligent person can’t see that is advice is (a) not impartial and (b) not followed by any other doctors absolutely baffles me.

Erm...I'm NOT doing it wrong. Not every situation is the same. Huge signs to say it's down to one lane for AGES, no traffic merging, we're all going in one direction here, & folk speed UP & bomb it right down to where the traffic cones start & then indicate for someone who has been waiting to let them in. Why are the rest of us less important than Mr/Mrs entitled in their- always large- car? What makes them more entitled to get where we're all going quicker? And I don't mean that I'm queuing way too early, there's a lot of traffic, so it slows up.

Despite being a very chilled & magnanimous driver, I am NOT letting them in, & am baffled by those in front of me who do. That is all. Pretty crap to say I'm doing driving 'wrong' 🙄.

My stepsons are staunch antivax but one has his own business selling weight loss jabs....

Oh god, I cannot stand people who stop dead in doorways, at the top of escalators, or just in the street in front of you.
They are right up there with the people who have conversations in the middle of supermarket aisles, with their trollies left sideways.
Or who wander off, leaving their trolley in the middle of the aisle, instead of to the side and out of the way.

I have the opposite problem. I am siiiick of being judged regarding bags every single time I go to the supermarket.

I buy bags, I take them home with my shopping, and I use them for other things. I volunteer at a food bank for a start - they always need a good supply of bags, so 90% of them go with me when I go there. I also use them for all kind of things at home.

So when I go shopping, I need to buy more bags. The shop is selling them. I want to buy them. I don't see the issue.

But the "bag ladies" as I call them, that walk around guarding the bags like rottweilers, with them clipped to their belts, will jump down my throat if I ask if they can please kindly spare me some of their wares to purchase
"YOU MUST HAVE SO MANY AT HOME BY NOW!! WHY DON' T YOU BRING THEM IN!!"

Then push in front of me and try to scan them for me like I'm going to steal them, or like I'm not capable of finding a barcode. It's awful and I dread having to go up to them and just ask for an item they are selling so I can buy it.

It's honestly such a weird bag culture that's built up in British supermarkets. Just let us purchase the goddamn bags!!

I mean I get people steal them but FFS, people steal lots of things. You don't get Scary Sharon patrolling the diary aisle with the milk clipped to her, giving you the third degree when you ask if you may please purchase her sacred milk.

They need to calm down and just let us live our lives.

I have a committed anti-vaxxer friend who says that Big Pharma are lying to us. Yet she was an enthusiastic early-adopter of the weight loss jabs. It's not just covid jabs she is anti- but flu jabs, shingles etc- and she is in her late 60s with a vulnerable and disabled DH,.

TBH that baffles me a bit too. Not that I'd say anything to her about it.

Check your local council and police websites. There is very likely a way of reporting this. It will be area dependent as to what action, if any, is taken, but it is awful behaviour forcing wheelchair users and small children into the road, so hopefully they'll at least get a talking to.

deliberately throwing litter on the ground

Speakerphone calls in cafes or buses or other public places without headphones

Well educated anti-vaxxers who claim they have ‘done their research’ and believe that they have discovered something that eminent doctors and scientists haven’t yet worked out.

People who stop dead at the entrance to a shop and then I did it, so I now annoy myself!

But it literally is the last centimetre - well, car's length - where you are supposed to merge if there's queueing. You are doing this wrong. If it's done right, it works really smoothly.

I can never understand couples where one of them is really kind and lovely and the other is a nasty piece of work.

Physical/sexual attraction is a private matter and an individual preference which varies greatly; but surely your general demeanour and personality out in public is at least reasonably reflective of how you are in general, and thus would be at home with your spouse?

To be blunt, why wouldn't the nice person want to find somebody better, instead of settling for a miserable, unpleasant, joy-sucking curmudgeon?

You omitted a bit, it's the people who have stopped where the minor road joins the main road you're on, wait until you're much closer and only then decide to pull out and crawl along in front of you!

But supermarkets are multi-purpose - and often have much easier free parking than libraries. People always need to get food in, but not everybody is that bothered about what libraries have to offer - certainly not once or more a week.

Also, libraries like you to be quiet, so it's a bit difficult to have a good old long chat!