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

@Gorkastalker

Hanging the washing out. Apparently, according to MIL, I should be using one peg for each pair of socks and I shouldn't be hanging pants on the line for the neighbours to see.

I prefer pegging each sock out individually and I'm assuming my neighbours know we wear pants, so...

I only peg out a pair of socks with one peg if it's boiling hot out and the washing will dry quickly. Otherwise, below the peg with the four layers of fabric can stay damp. I peg mine out next to each other with a peg each (matching pegs obvs )

Absolutely fascinating thread. Thanks for starting it @BruceAndNosh

Amazing how a few of the things come up so many times

I wrap presents incorrectly.

Boiling eggs. Apparently I put too
much water in the pan. 'What are you trying to do, drown these eggs?'

I say oops wrong because I say oo pah.

I don't even know why I say it like that but apparently it is wrong.

I will say that I do know how to fill a dishwasher and the rest of the family are definitely wrong.

Spelling my name. Filled in the new patient form at the optician. She took the clipboard from me, turned it round and glanced down the page, raised an eyebrow, got out her pen and amended my fucking name.

@burritofan

Spelling my name. Filled in the new patient form at the optician. She took the clipboard from me, turned it round and glanced down the page, raised an eyebrow, got out her pen and amended my fucking name.

Well that's just a tad arrogant!

I hope you put that person straight. 🌹

i hope you went elsewhere.
no one like that would be getting my custom.

years ago someone from another continent, a college lecturer was told by a prospective student where her, the lecturer's name originated, her surname.
she politely said no it's not south african, my GGF came from Germany.
no said the would-be student, it's a south african name.
and they were discussing philosophy, including theory of knowledge.
didn't become an actual student at that college. just as well.

My surname is also a popular girls name and I've lost count of the amount of times people have tried to correct me when I give my surname and they reply "no love, your LAST name".
It is my last name and I know what the word surname means.

I used to have a teacher who refused to pronounce a couple of girls’ names correctly - one because it was written differently from how it was pronounced (foreign name) and another because it was a compliment (think Blessing but not that). However, he was a lunatic.

@Milomonster

Everything according to narc mother - the most infuriating was when she told me to put my hair up as it was too curly. We were on holiday by the sea and I was rather admiring how lovely my hair looked.

I would kill for curly hair. You enjoy!

I put the pears in the fruit bowl too heavily

The only point I can raise any criticism on (not the point of the thread I know) is not using indicators when there is no traffic.
Last week I started crossing the road only to be beeped at ferociously by a driver who wanted to turn into the road I was crossing. Had they indicated I would have not stepped out.

Youre right @WeatherwaxOn i wa staught to do it at all times for the consideration of pedestrians aswell as drivers

Mine is i walk too slow-i am unfit atm but ive always walked slowly-my dh walks likke hes on fire so do the rest of his family i cant keep up he sems o think thats my fault even though im a foot smaller than him

I de stalk and peel the skin off of mushrooms. And then I rinse and dry them. My ex MIL made a big point of picking all the discarded unwashed stalks out of the sink and shoving them in her mouth, presumably to prove that the stalks werent poisonous. (Its the texture I dont like) Another thing that bugged her about me was that I took time to set the table nicely for our Christmas meal. She said I was 'posh', because I happen to know which way round the cutlery goes.