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

@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 don't agree with rapping your cousin on the head but there is a correct way to write the letter o. You start at the top and draw it anti clockwise. This is for joined handwriting.

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

Deleting a small amount of text using backspace key.

I never zip up or close my handbags. Have never had any problems because of it in my 58 years on this planet. And yet I get older women pointing it out to me and warning of dire consequences.
I smile sweetly and say thank you despite wanting to tell them to F off and mind their own business.

They're probably worried you're an easy target for 'dippers'.

That I was using too much toilet cleaner - I couldn’t have because we didn’t have any (at work).
But I did take in my own - and used the entire bottle over two days and 14 toilets. 🥺

I was apparently sharpening the shears wrong before cutting the grass edges yesterday. DH had to take them out of my hands and show me the correct way then made me test it out on the grass-it made no difference. They are my shears, as are all the gardening tools, it's my sharpener, I do all the gardening and have done for the past 15 years.

Exh told me I tie my shoe laces wrong. Not like it had been serving me just fine for 30 years before we met

Also I put a duvet cover on wrong because I didn't do it like his previous girlfriend.

And my personal favourite, I was brushing my hair wrong.

Idiot.

Apparently I put bread in the toaster wrong... I put it in upward, DH does it sideways. I'm supposedly the psycho in this scenario

For reference, our toaster accommodates a slice upwards, so there's no issue with half the bread being untoasted.

Apparently I pour champagne/prosecco/whatever fizz I’m drinking holding the wrong part of the bottle!

There was a very long thread a while ago about people who hold their cutlery the opposite way around to the 'norm'. A surprising number of the replies were so bitter and full of bile against strangers for how they held their cutlery, I assumed they were joking - but no, it soon became very clear that some people really do get personally offended by these disgusting animals (like me) who find it easier with the items in different hands.

Next time you hear tell of riots, pillaging, looting, arson, killings and mass anarchy in the streets, mark my words: it will all be the 'cutlery deviants' responsible for it

Was out on Saturday with someone I don't really like. She insisted on taking a group selfie with me included which I hate. She took about 5. She showed them all to me and in one I looked even more awful than usual. She said "why are you pulling that face?". I said I wasn't pulling a face she just got me in an unfortunate millisecond.

I don't put the bins out properly. Not quite aligned with the edge of the property of something.

And I am very slapdash about putting stamps on envelopes. I think it's another alignment issue.

Pegging out the washing.

My dad told me I was heating up baked beans wrong.

I was in my thirties, and had been successfully heating up beans (and many other foods) for several years.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

There was a very long thread a while ago about people who hold their cutlery the opposite way around to the 'norm'. A surprising number of the replies were so bitter and full of bile against strangers for how they held their cutlery, I assumed they were joking - but no, it soon became very clear that some people really do get personally offended by these disgusting animals (like me) who find it easier with the items in different hands.

Next time you hear tell of riots, pillaging, looting, arson, killings and mass anarchy in the streets, mark my words: it will all be the 'cutlery deviants' responsible for it

I'd forgotten about the cutlery (count me in on the rioting )

Yep - fork in right hand and knife in left...unless I'm slicing something then knife in right or between the moaners shoulder blades

@MagpiePi

Walking about in bare feet is wrong.

Despite being a 50 year old grown up who can presumably make her own mind up about what she wears, I apparently still need to be told by strangers, invariably men, that I will hurt my feet.

But...but don’t you hurt your feet?? Or do you mean inside only?

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 too apparently wear my watch on the wrong wrist!

I shut the car doors wrong

Apparently I slam them too hard. I’m supposed to gently press it against the catch and hope it clicks in first time

@BackforGood that’s how I eat a kit Kat! How else are you meant to eat them?!
It’s not meant for bloody nibbling at like a mouse

@TheChosenTwo you're supposed to snap Kit Kat's into individual fingers then eat them one finger at a time I don't always do this and while no one has ever told me off, I get stares when I do it in front of people 😂

As for the many things I do wrong...

I dress myself wrong - apparently I need more colour and to be more trendy (from my dm)

I do holidays wrong - I like to do 'road trips' rather than stay in one place and we rarely head anywhere hot. Apparently this is wrong and weird and I should be aiming for 2 weeks on a beach somewhere sunny despite hating being hot, burning easily and not physically being able to cope with nothing to do for a few weeks (from my sister)

From DH I have a list:
Load the dishwasher
Fold clothes
Chop onions
Park my car (admittedly this skill has gone haywire after barely driving in lockdown)
Eat sandwiches & burgers (I eat the outsides first)

@pussycatlickinglollyices

Ah - just realised my logic is cos I use Scan as You Shop, so I pack my bags as I go round the shop, packing it how I like!

I can see how your way would work better if you use the tills.

From terrible ex: cutting a pepper into strips. Apparently his is the correct way and my way, which results in identical strips of pepper, is wrong.

From a colleague, once, but never again after my death stare: copying and pasting with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V instead of clicking on the menu and choosing the option. Which is “safer”

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.

@RedRec

I never zip up or close my handbags. Have never had any problems because of it in my 58 years on this planet. And yet I get older women pointing it out to me and warning of dire consequences. I smile sweetly and say thank you despite wanting to tell them to F off and mind their own business.

Someone at work used to point out my half open bag under my desk on a regular basis. If someone had stolen or rifled through it they would have been very disappointed by the contents. Tissues; magazine and lunch. I kept the small amount of money I carried with me and my keys about my person.