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

@Borka

I got told by another customer in the supermarket that I was lifting up the packs of chicken breasts too roughly.

I do hate people that pick stuff up and throw it back down rather than being gentle with what is essentially other people's food.

@MadisonAvenue

We went to a Chinese buffet restaurant a couple of years ago, it was our first time meeting our son’s girlfriend’s family.

Some of us went up to get food and I put a spoonful of minced duck on my plate. There was a woman at the other side of the food island and I heard her say “excuse me” so I looked over and she was looking at me. She then went on to explain in front of everyone how I’d done it wrong and that you take a lettuce leaf, put the minced duck onto it and then wrap it.

I told her I was fine, I didn’t want a lettuce leaf, I just fancied a bit of minced duck and she replied saying that she was just telling me the correct way of eating it.
It wasn’t as though I was depriving her of any duck either, there was a container full. It was actually quite embarrassing.

For max effect I'd have liked this story to end with

"...so reader, I took a big handful of the duck mince and smashed it straight in to my mouth."

@BackforGood haha. I like to do this with a kitkat. If I have a pizza in a restaurant I also like to cut out a triangle from the middle 😮 😆

@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'.

I do this, been told off by my mum and teachers many times but it makes an O so who cares? Reading a book too fast when I was about 8. Wearing my watch on the wrong arm - I’m right handed and it’s on my right arm. My left handed brother wears his on his left arm. In our 40s and my mum still mentions it regularly

I was told by my ex that I clapped wrong. I was also cutting vegetables wrong, doing the groceries wrong, and my cooking was wrong. Needless to say, eventually I told him to permanently f... off. Good riddance!

My DH told me I cleaned the toilet wrong and used too much bleach. I said you can fuck right off. If you ever tell me that my cleaning is wrong I will never clean anything again. The only time he has done it since was to tell me I loaded the dishwasher incorrectly. I have never loaded it again.

I was told in feedback from a job interview that I moved my head too much when speaking.

@CassandraCross they are under a fiver in the range they get hot much faster and make pancakes a doddle it's a no brainer

@user1498572889 you are my hero

When I was about 16 I was told, by a particularly noxious teenaged boy, that I was wearing my watch on the wrong wrist.

God, he was an arrogant tosser.

04:04ShinyGreenElephant you win!

I cut rolls and scones wrong according to DH.

When he asks for half a scone /roll i give him top or bottom .

Apparently I'm meant to put them together and cut vertically down middle so he gets both a bit of top and bottom.

Just bloody eat it !!

[quote nevernotstruggling]@CassandraCross they are under a fiver in the range they get hot much faster and make pancakes a doddle it's a no brainer [/quote]
Thanks, I'm definitely going to get one!

Apparently I sneeze incorrectly.

@thefelineofthespecies

I'm on lifelong medication and take numerous tablets daily. According to an ex I swallow tablets incorrectly. Apparently swallowing each one with water isn't cool and I should chuck in handfuls of them dry like like characters in American TV shows and movies.

According to the same ex I also ride a bike incorrectly because I get on then start peddling rather than starting peddling with one foot then swinging my leg over "like bicycle couriers do." Twat.

@thefelineofthespecies Which characters in which American TV shows and movies? I’ve got to see that.

@Rhiannon13

Apparently I sneeze incorrectly.

I get told that too.

Then in hayfever season when my nose bleeds it's because I sneezed too hard...

It will always be at a WI meeting (before Covid), can’t remember what, needless to say I didn’t go very often. Am only a member so I can be in one of their other groups (which has just the nice people in it). Lol

Stapling papers in the wrong place.

I went back to Uni after that as I thought if it's this much stress working in an office, I should actually get a proper qualification.

My DC tell me I text wrongly.
Apparently I should use my thumbs.

Copying & pasting wrong. I use the mouse and right click functions, my husband uses keyboard shortcuts. He thinks it’s quicker and easier and therefore “correct”.

Also my late MIL declaring that my insistence that shoes should be removed before entering my home (cultural) is actually unhygienic and I must have very dirty carpet! Still not sure where her logic came from!

Apparently putting the milk in my tea first is a hanging offence. I like milk first so I can see how strong it is, I like my tea, like my men, weak and wet.

Whilst cooking I tilted a pan lid the wrong way

@Lamaitresse

I was told by narcissist step-FIL that I was ordering fish and chips wrong. Apparently you’re not allowed to order eg 2 fish and 1 chips. You must order in complete fish + chip meals. FFS.

I'm currently seeing an NHS dietician, as I'm apparently too fat. I told her my very thin DH and I share food, particularly fish & chips like this and she said it's the right thing to do!

Butter, I scrape off the block, please dont dig it's just wrong