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

@HelloMissus
Allow me to, at some point, cross the Atlantic and drive your DH totally nuts. I text one-handed and with a stylus!

@HappySwordMaker
Pity she's a late MIL. It would have been so satisfying to say, "MY, your feet must be filthy when you put your shoes on!"

Use the steering wheel side of the car (when driving it). My 2yo is most indignant every time I sit there, because apparently that's Daddy's side.

spelling my name wrong

I was told by another student in uni I was taking notes too much. I was 51 at the time and could barely remember to put my knickers on in a morning due to the menopause let alone the details of a lecture

Ha, I have to write to do lists in ridiculous detail nowadays. Otherwise I will not remember.

Boiling pasta 'wrong'. I boil it quickly with the door open for steam. I'm told I should do it slowly with a lid on. Nahhhh

I had a 20 minute discussion with my dickhead colleague about why I wanted to file pupil files, alphabetically by surname.

He thought I should do it by first name, 20 minutes wasted on that. He acts like he's my boss but he isn't, so I don't take his shit!

IrisAtwood
God bless you both

@Kokosrieksts

Flossing after brushing my teeth. Not going to change.

no. unless you do it twice ! you floss first to expose more surfaces which will then take up the flouride from brushing. and don't rinse after brushing. rinse after flossing. simples !

Apparently I swallow water too loudly. Can't do much about it

Not rinsing after brushing seems vile to me. Swallowing plaque, bacteria, halitosis, toothpaste? Why would you do that? Is it to get the benefit from the paste? Surely rinse as normal and apply a little fresh paste if that's the case.

because it's recommended by dentists.
you rinse the mouth initially, then floss and rinse thoroughly, then brush with toothpaste, spit out any residue, but do not rinse with water.
yes, it is to keep flouride in contact with teeth for longer, esp on going to bed.

I too was told by xp my breathing/ panting was all wrong during labour. He also said I couldn't do the gas and air right. This was afterwards and thrown up regularly.
The GP was wrong for diagnosing me with pnd. Of course, I was wrong for throwing his arse out for good when our dd was a toddler.

Using 'big' words.

I kid you not. I was 23, I was at a training course for a public service job that I ended up staying in for 10 years. And during a table discussion about the first week of the course and how we were all feeling about it etc. One of the other women (who was the same age as me I expect, maybe a year or two older, and ended up in the job for about as long as me too) said to me: "Oi posh bird, can you stop using such big words, I can't understand anything you say."
Said with a 'mean girl' sneer. I was flabbergasted and had no idea how to respond! I would respond pretty bloody loudly nowadays... but that is certainly the weirdest and most 'trivial' thing I've been told was wrong with me.
I don't/never did use particularly high brow language by the way, but I DO have a very middle class/middle England accent, that I'm afraid I just can't shake, despite being a Norfolk resident for a good number of years now 🤣 I had just been working in a rather well to do university, and I expect the environment had rubbed off on my language and accent somewhat. But never in my life have I had someone tell me they couldn't understand the words I was using before (and particularly that that was my fault!), not before and not since!

My response was a little immature, but I was embarrassed, and felt rather bullied as she was laughing and others were too. So I responded that "It's not my fault if you can't understand me, try reading a dictionary."

🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Like I said, a little immature. But it stopped her in her tracks, and she didn't pick on me again!

She runs her own business now, working with far far 'posher' people than me. And I often wonder if she tells them to speak differently, or that she can't understand them! I rather think not...

I have a way I prefer my clothes to be pegged out and admit to changing them if someone else (very rarely) has done it.
I think people get into a routine way of doing things and become fixed in their ways.
I live alone and really don't think I could stomach someone else disrupting my (life) routines 🤣🤣

Cutting carrots wrong. A housemate told me I was common/poor because I cut them in a round shape for the dinner I was cooking the group and apparently civilised people cut them into batons.

I still think of it now whenever I serve carrots and like to mix it up between the two styles depending on the meal (how common I am feeling on that day )

Carrots are carrots who cares

everythingbackbutyou it’s great when every day is a school day at home, isn’t it? 😉

Right at this moment ? Getting on a fucking bus

I get a return ticket to get to my C town everyday. The buses are every half hour but only one an hour goes through my town the onto the terminus at B town, then back to W town

The other bus goes direct to B town then onto my C town on the way back

So depending what time I finish work I sometimes get the bus that goes to B before C.

The bloody bus driver can't cope with this and had got a strop told me ' it doesn't work like that'

Er it does if your willing to pay the extra bus fare, he seemed quite out out

Everything I do lately

@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 your vet rang you. The only mistake though, that your vet made, was not to put your ex to sleep.

@OliveHenry

Turning the light on. DP told me I was too stabby with the rocker switch and it needs to be gently stroked into position.

How I didn't stab him, I don't know!

I rather like the sound of your DP, IYKWIM.😉

@Frazzledstar1

Obviously I don't do anything wrong

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.

Would having two tubs of Flora on the go work? One for each of you then you can scrape and he can gouge away!

I'm not allowed to put his clothes in the wash because I do it wrong. However, I can't be all useless because I am 'honoured' with the job of hanging them up...

@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

But what about the frozen stuff melting (the frozen aisle is normally last in a supermarket) and the fruit and veg getting squashed I'm when packing?! 🤔

Put the sticky side of the sanitary towel onto your knickers! My mother told me that and nothing else about periods