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

Eating jaffa cakes

I pick off all the chocolate first , then eat the sponge then finally devouring the orange jelly

My ex told me that I stroked our cat wrong. At the time the cat was lying full length on the carpet and purring up a storm. I don’t think she agreed with him.

My stroking the cat was wrong, but he was right when he rang the vet to have her put to sleep because we had split up.

Bastard.

I went straight back to collect her after the vet rang me.

And I stroke her exactly how she likes whenever we like.

Pronouncing and spelling my own name. I share it with a historical figure and people have argued that I'm still wrong. Can't argue with stupid at this point, easier to ignore.

@Amdone123

We got a new mop bucket the other day, much to the excitement of my dh. He showed me how to do it. ( I'm a cleaner).

That isn't trivial, that is colossal! He is mansplaining. Argh

@Ddot

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

So do I... I didn't know it was wrong?

Trimming the hedge. DH stopped me when I started bringing the blade towards my face.

I mean, he had a point...

I was also vain and shallow for a)shaving my legs and b)wearing mascara.

Apparently women in Europe (all Goddesses with genius level IQs according to my Dutch ex) don’t shave or wear make up.

He really was an arse and has been single since we spilt up three years ago - apparently I did relationships so badly that he has vowed never again - so I’ve done womankind a favour 🤣🤣

@BackforGood

Not me, but I was shocked to see someone I know open a two finger kit kat and take a bite across both fingers, rather than snapping it into two separate fingers and eating one then the other.

Obviously, I had to clutch my pearls tightly.

Kit Kats taste better this way. Taking a bite across the top of a four finger Kit Kat is even better. The look of horror on people’s faces is very satisfying.

Sitting in my car

Was told off by a lady 6 years older than me A so not an elderly lady - who lives near the school for sitting in my car minding my own business while waiting for my kids for finish school on a sunny day 'can't you take a walk or something before it rains'

In terms of trivial things that seem "wrong" and I know it's a none issue, but my partner hangs clothes inside out. No idea why he does this, I have mentioned it, but it winds me up big time. Also putting the clothes hanger the wrong way in the wardrobe and the toilet paper in the holder underneath instead of over

I cough wrong.

I type much, much too hard for modern keyboards. I learned on manual typewriters with stiff keys and just have a lifetime's habit of really banging away. My left little finger is actually a bit bent from slamming it onto the shift key.

My exdh gave me so many tips on breastfeeding our first baby. Apparently my boob removal wasn't quick enough. I suggested he wrote a book

@Dippydinosaurus

Using a stapler. Worked in a solicitor's office for a few months after I left school. Stapled sheets together but apparently it was wrong as they were stapled diagonally. The staple had to be parallel to the paper. I still think of it 25 years later every time I use one. I staple diagonally 😁

I’d switch the stapler footplate round ( where possible) and clip the papers ‘wing out’ not ‘wing in’ to further display my bohemian disposition !

@IrisAtwood

My ex told me that I stroked our cat wrong. At the time the cat was lying full length on the carpet and purring up a storm. I don’t think she agreed with him.

My stroking the cat was wrong, but he was right when he rang the vet to have her put to sleep because we had split up.

Bastard.

I went straight back to collect her after the vet rang me.

And I stroke her exactly how she likes whenever we like.

So glad you have your cat. I hate it when people hurt the animals when the couple split up

@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.

are there people who don't have a pancake pan?

Working in a record shop with a control freak boss who would follow us around checking our every move. Amongst my many faults was the way I put the pen down at the till.

@Oldraver

Leaving my pegs on the washing line overnight

By my neighbour

@Oldraver are you crazy! The spiders will be all over them rubbing their willies around!!

@Fuckingcrustybread

Watering thirsty drooping plants at lunchtime on a boiling hot day in midsummer - oh yes, lets wait another 6 hours by which time half of them will be dead. confused The cantankerous old git is right. Plants should never be watered when they're in full sun especially on a boiling hot day. The hot water will affect the roots. Water them before or after the sun is full on them.

Thank you, @Fuckingcrustybread - I was going to hold my tongue on that one. And water your lawn either very early or very late when it’s very hot & the sun is blazing down. The water acts like a magnifying glass & your lawn will get burned by the sun in the midday heat is how a farmer/gardener explained it to me.

Took my daughter to our regular salon, a few years ago, put her name on the waiting list, and then sat down to wait for a stylist. The woman behind me in the queue called me back to reception to let me know I had spelled my daughter's name wrong.

When I checked the list, her name had been spelled as I had told the receptionist, and I told this woman that it was, in fact, correct.

This stranger was so upset with the way my daughter's name was spelled (ie, with an 'f' instead of 'ph'), that she actually left the salon!

@BippityBoppity87

In terms of trivial things that seem "wrong" and I know it's a none issue, but my partner hangs clothes inside out. No idea why he does this, I have mentioned it, but it winds me up big time. Also putting the clothes hanger the wrong way in the wardrobe and the toilet paper in the holder underneath instead of over

I wash eveeything inside out and if drying outside I hang it out inside out too. Prevents fading.

@Chicchicchicchiclana That doesn't bother me. It's the hanging them up dry and ready to wear in the wardrobe inside out. So if he does the washing and puts it away and I take a top out, it can get a little annoying. Very trivial, but can get a little grating!

Dh tells me repeatedly that I sneeze wrong.

@Excilente

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.

Weirdly, my brand new expensive washing machine actually requires this. It forces me to turn it off before selecting the next programme. In all my years of washing machines, and there have been many, I've never had this. Unnecessary IMO. Siemens if it's any help.

OH insists I should cut my nails over a sink. I don't see the issue as long as the nail clippings all go in the bin, therefore I ignore him. The way he loads the dishwasher is just wrong, but he ignores me. Such is married life.