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What's the most trivial thing you've been told you're doing "wrong"

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BruceAndNosh · 21/06/2021 17:43

Apparently not using the entire individual hotel mini tub of marmalade to cover 2 slices of toast is "weird".
I like toast with a SMALL amount of marmalade - this makes me odd it seems

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nevernotstruggling · 22/06/2021 19:17

I've been told by a friend I am wrong for having a pancake pan (very thin flat frying pan) as well as a regular frying pan and this is absurd.

Pancake pans are amazing and I have two - one at home and one in the caravan. So there.

Mamanyt · 22/06/2021 19:17

@Dulcinae

Putting veg peelings into my compost bin wrongly. Apparently I tipped them in messily.
Yeah, um...

Whoever told you that does realize that "compost bin" is the polite way of saying, "Where we put things until they rot," right?

maddiemookins16mum · 22/06/2021 19:18

@Mrsjayy

I cut sandwiches wrong i cut horizontally Dd has to lie down after watching me, Hmm surely its square bread it makes no difference?
Depends on the filling. Bacon or sausage, horizontal, egg and cress into 4 triangles (or 2 for speed).
NeverDropYourMoonCup · 22/06/2021 19:19

I had feet.

The ex said the fact that my toes point slightly upwards when my foot is relaxed means I'm some sort of monster as women's toes should always point perfectly flat in line with the sole. Even worse, when I walk barefoot, I walk and don't tiptoe like women in shit movies after they've had sex or are shown getting up in the morning. His suggestion of taking a hammer and making them properly flat if he ever saw my wrong toes again was not appreciated.

There were many other things I did wrong as well, mostly around daring to like fish, seafood, vegetables, salad and rice, being prepared to eat things without a sugary, gloopy sauce on them, not pretending to eat less than a sparrow, & stentatiously declare I was simply full to the brim and then go hungry for the next week to make up for the calories I'd looked at or taking up more space than the edge of my sitting bones on a seat. And watching something that wasn't a soap (so you can have conversations at work without them thinking you're a freak/that you think you're better than them) or a TV talent show/Top Gear or, worse still, owning books and reading them - that was really offensive to him.

He pretty much wanted a tiny, delicate, timid little mouse who was ashamed of being intelligent and hid it all the time, even from herself.

I've asked DP before if there's anything that he thinks I do wrong or that annoys him. He said he'll tell me when he finds something. Still not got back to me after nearly ten years, though.

JudgeJ · 22/06/2021 19:23

When I was about 15 my mother questioned why I was peeling a potato with the knife in my left hand. It was then that we realised that I always use my left hand for peeling, slicing etc., none of us had noticed it beforel, I am right-handed for writing, tennis and so on.

Staffy1 · 22/06/2021 19:26

Putting garden cuttings in the green bin. That's what it's for, but husband prefers to fill it with the non-recycling full bin bags until bin day.

JudgeJ · 22/06/2021 19:27

@MagpiePi

Walking about in bare feet is wrong.

Despite being a 50 year old grown up who can presumably make her own mind up about what she wears, I apparently still need to be told by strangers, invariably men, that I will hurt my feet.

I rarely wear shoes, I even took my driving test in bare feet, much to the examiner's amusement, I think it was because then, 1971, I always wore Scholl clogs and it was almost impossible to drive in them.
Purplealienpuke · 22/06/2021 19:28

The whole tinfoil thing is a myth, its just the way its manufactured, sheets together, that gives it a different sheen.....

LemonFantaGin · 22/06/2021 19:28

Saying good morning to a full office, had a formal complaint made against me, my manager at the time told me on a quick 'walk/chat' around the office, we had a great laugh about it.

Bertiebiscuit · 22/06/2021 19:33

Crochet - a bully in a craft group I once went to insisted I had to relearn how to crochet - even though I had been crocheting for 50 years - & I actually wasted an hour or 2 trying to do it her way 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

supersop60 · 22/06/2021 19:36

@iklboo

At primary school my cousin was told off (and rapped on the head with knuckles by the teacher for 'writing his O the wrong way round'.
It should be anticlockwise, since most curved letters are written that way for fluency.
bumptobean · 22/06/2021 19:39

Microwaving beans instead of putting them in a pot Hmm

Clearthinking · 22/06/2021 19:40

One my first day at a new job I was asked to shadow a chap for the first couple of days. Follow him, have a cup of tea, ask questions, have breaks together, let him show me around give me the tour. After 2 hours he had enough if me following him I was a hindrance as I didn't know anything or where anything was !

Clearthinking · 22/06/2021 19:41

And microwaving scrambled egg instead of the pan way.

OccaChocca · 22/06/2021 19:44

My boss showed me how to use the attachment on the hoover to go along the carpet next to the skirting.

I worked in an office.

I wasn't the cleaner.

I handed my notice in shortly after.

BlueLobelia · 22/06/2021 19:47

[quote nevernotstruggling]@BlueLobelia scissors are the correct utensil for cutting pizzas. Even my kids know that. However we have been snorted at many times for this as if it's it's a gross faux pas.[/quote]
Really??!!

I thought I was inspired. :)

BreakfastClub80 · 22/06/2021 19:49

I had a teacher (back in the 80’s) who insisted that the margin had to be drawn as EXACTLY 2cm. He would cross out the entire page of work if it wasn’t. He liked to boast that he was once challenged by another teacher as to how he checked this and was able to draw a 2cm margin without measuring so only had to look at the page to know it was right or wrong… what a twat!

TheRobotsAreComing · 22/06/2021 19:49

@MrsJackRackham

My dad used to say I shopped wrong. Rather than start at the front at the fruit and veg I go to the last aisle and work my way back. That way the fruit and veg don't get squished at the bottom of the trolley. Makes perfect sense to me. Wrong apparently Blush
I'm ashamed I've got to my age and not thought of this before Blush
Devora13 · 22/06/2021 19:49

Hmmm. Does this person also think not drinking a whole bottle of wine in one go is 'weird'?
Mine was not mixing the right combo of sweet flavours together in one go.

CassandraCross · 22/06/2021 19:50

@nevernotstruggling

I've been told by a friend I am wrong for having a pancake pan (very thin flat frying pan) as well as a regular frying pan and this is absurd.

Pancake pans are amazing and I have two - one at home and one in the caravan. So there.

Ooh I want a pancake pan now sounds excellent your friend is weird.
Lollipopbubblegum · 22/06/2021 19:53

Walking.....

Walking briskly to work with earphones in 7.30 in the morning - so not busy, someone tapped on my shoulder from behind and gestured to take my earphones out. She then told me that i had been swinging my arms too much, that she had been trying to pass me for some time and was unable to.

Ameanstreakamilewide · 22/06/2021 19:53

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

There was a very long thread a while ago about people who hold their cutlery the opposite way around to the 'norm'. A surprising number of the replies were so bitter and full of bile against strangers for how they held their cutlery, I assumed they were joking - but no, it soon became very clear that some people really do get personally offended by these disgusting animals (like me) who find it easier with the items in different hands.

Next time you hear tell of riots, pillaging, looting, arson, killings and mass anarchy in the streets, mark my words: it will all be the 'cutlery deviants' responsible for it Grin

I'm cack handed with cutlery, as well.

You would think it was crime of the century. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Greenandcabbagelooking · 22/06/2021 19:53

I'm not strongly right-handed, I do most things apart from write and cut out with my left hand. My mother knows this. She still tells me I open bottles wrongly for a right handed person. And can't play tennis with my because I insist on using my left hand. My right handed nephew manages fine, and he's 4...

Frazzledstar1 · 22/06/2021 19:53

Obviously I don't do anything wrong Grin

But DP uses the wrong method for extracting butter from the pot (or flora I should say). Rather than gliding the knife along the top thus leaving a nice a smooth surface for the next user, he just jams the knife in and takes out a big chunk leaving huge craters behind. It is highly aggravating. Angry

MB34 · 22/06/2021 19:55

According to my mother, I do everything wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️