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

[BruceAndNosh]

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

The way I use a pizza cutter.

Was also told that I bake jacket potatoes incorrectly. It was my potato, he’d already eaten.

@Siennabear

Lollipop lady at school always tells me off for walking on the left hand side even when there’s no one else crossing!

I'd do it just to wind her up!

@Mamanyt are you my daughter? She does this exact same thing! It always used to amuse me that I'd be offered a Skittle but told, "you have to take a green/yellow etc. one, if you want a red one, you'll have to wait"

loving this thread.

Mine was on here, actually. OP was ranting about pedestrians who press the button at crossings then, when there is a gap in the traffic, crossing before the green man appeared.

I said I do that, what are you supposed to do, stand there like a fart in a trance watching an empty road for a couple of minutes. She replied that she can't stand "people like you" who "walk away, oblivious to what you have done".

I stir soup in the wrong way. 🤗

I cut brie wrong. I don't give two shits.

[quote Ifeelsuchafool]@Mamanyt are you my daughter? She does this exact same thing! It always used to amuse me that I'd be offered a Skittle but told, "you have to take a green/yellow etc. one, if you want a red one, you'll have to wait" [/quote]
I am probably way too old to be your daughter, but she sounds like she is one of my "tribe!"

It should be anticlockwise, since most curved letters are written that way for fluency.

It should be whichever way round he felt most comfortable with. He's 53 now - never had any problems joining his o to another letter.

My aunt told me I was cleaning the bath the wrong way!

Oh yes - cooking gnocchi. Has to be fried, apparently. Of course, you can fry it, but it's not the only way to cook it - it would usually be boiled, like pasta. "er....no....I think you're supposed to fry it" he said while he pushed it dolefully around his plate.

This discussion was 30 years and I am completely over it now and it doesn't bother me AT ALL.

The right place to shell a hard boiled egg by XH.

I always broke the shell into the pan and he used to go crazy at me, saying that the proper and only way to do it was directly into the bin.

I was told I eat my meals wrong. Apparently you're supposed to eat each food item evenly, and not eat one thing at a time like I do. For example, the chips first, then the salad, and chicken last (according to my dad ) I still eat my food how I like

Hilarious!

Oh god, same boyfriend. I used to do those logic puzzles ("John won a gold watch but not for crosswords" etc.) and liked to challenge myself by working it out for myself without using the grid.

"I think you'll find it easier if you use the grid" he informed me. "I know - I do it this way because it's tougher, it's more of a challenge"

"Yeah....but the grid will make it easier."

"Yeah, but I want to make it harder"

"I still think you want to use the grid" he declared, giving me a fond smile in a "Birds, eh?" kind of way.

Also completely over that one too. Hasn't bothered me in the span of decades since, not one iota.

Answering a phone. Had it mansplained by a horrible yuppie type when I started a job in an office. I answered in a professional and friendly way and he modelled a nasal, 'computer says no' voice i should be using. Haha.

I think I'm married to the man a lot of people have divorced.

Opening a tin of beans

Walking wonky 🤷‍♀️

I cut my food with my knife in my right hand but swap to eat so my fork is in my right ha d. I am also right handed and wear my watch on the right wrist. This was all seriously very wrong and wound up XP then I got back with my first love last year and he does exactly that same! A match made in heaven

By a variety of people, I've been told I:

Brush my teeth and have breakfast in the wrong order.

Memorise phone numbers wrong (grouping numbers together in odd groups)

Use a hole punch wrong (you're meant to fold the paper in half first).

Sing along to music wrong (too loud/high/soft/odd).

Make a cup of tea wrong (apparently the water has had the air expelled from it by the time I've finished with it).

Write the number 4 wrong.

Leave the wrong length of time between sentences when speaking (too long).

Apply eye liner wrong (too much, always too much)

Put on a bra wrong (your boobs fall into it?)

Wash my daughter's hair wrong.

I still do everything the way I like to, except my DD's hair as I really didn't have the knack of that at the time.

@Thecomfortador

Apparently I don't sneeze properly. I should let it rip more instead of sneezing quietly.

Also I was told off once for not opening one of those little celebration chocolates properly. The rippy bit hadn't actually worked so I pulled both ends to stretch the wrapping and tear it open. Not appropriate for my friend who thought saw fit to pull me up on such behaviour.

Holy fuck, I sneeze wrong by sneezing too loudly!!!

i was informed this morning that i'm using the washing machine incorrectly.

When removing one load, and replacing it with another, i should, apparently, switch the machine off, then back on again to 'reset it'

I looked said knowitall dead in the eye, and just pressed 'start' without doing the aforementioned "turn it off and back on again" and lo.. it started a whole new wash cycle.

According to my 18 year old dd (who decided to hop in bed with me the other night to sleep as she'd had a dreadful day), I breathe too loud.

According to my other child, who has recently you tubed a load of recipes, I cook everything wrong. Guess who's been left to it. 😃

@iklboo

He could still join the o at the top writing it clockwise, though. Slightly more awkward but not 'wrong'.

Oh!!! oh!!!!!!!!! I've gone a bit faint at the very thought of doing it like that 😮

@BackforGood you're absolutely right but I have to fess up to doing exactly that recently. I was shocked at myself and it didn't taste right. There were good reasons (I was at a blood donor session, only had one hand free, needed to eat to get outta there) but, quite frankly, not good enough.
I'm sorry.