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

[quote TheChosenTwo]@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 [/quote]
Yes it is. One stick at a time and nibble the chocolate from around the edge first.

My Fil told me off for using the wrong nappies. My sil used buggies with her daughter and I was wrong for using pampers for my son. He would of probably fainted by the time I had my third and used Tesco’s own brand.

Huggies not buggies!

Lollipop lady at school always tells me off for walking on the left hand side even when there’s no one else crossing!

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.

I told I was stapling papers together in the wrong way. I soon looked for a new job!

Also whenever I go in Sainsbury’s they always say something. Queuing in the wrong place. I feel like a naughty school girl.

Once got told I was blinking too much.

I was facing a sunny window, not trying to Morse code SOS.

@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 😁

Ooh you too! I genuinely could believe it when it was said to me!

My husband "corrected" the way I placed a spoon in the dish rack at the weekend.

On the plus side, the new patio is lovely.

My mum told me we were feeding DS the wrong formula and kept suggesting a different one even though she knew we’d already tried that one and it made DS constipated. She also had issues with the way I loaded my dishwasher or pegged my washing out, in fact she pretty much found fault with everything I did.

When driving SFIL I was informed that

I should be driving 5mph above the speed limit.

I shouldn't put the handbrake on while waiting at the traffic lights.

I shouldn't have driven up to the third level of the multi storey car park as going uphill is bad for the car.

I shouldn't indicate if there's no other cars around.

SFIL does not and has never held a driving licence. He's never even had a lesson.
I will not drive him anymore.

Buttons. Apparently I do them up "funny" according to my mum. I asked her who taught me how to do buttons up and she didn't have an answer back for that one

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.

I do chuck mine in all at one but I'd never be able to swallow the buggers without a drink. I never understand that on American tv shows & films - unless it's for continuity. But even then they could use a non see through receptacle.

I shouldn't have driven up to the third level of the multi storey car park as going uphill is bad for the car.

That one is hilarious. How does he think people in hilly places cope?

In my early 20's I started a new job, and the woman training me was very particular and picked apart everything I did. One day she gave me a hard time for not joining the top of a number 4 into a triangle. Mine are open.
Later, after she had gone home, the manager let me know I was doing just fine and he would have a chat with her. Thank goodness, because I had just about enough and would have left. It did turn out to be a good experience after all, since I ended up on a different shift than the old fuss.

I haven't changed my ways.

Apparently the way I open a banana is wrong!

Everyday, something new.

Fortunately my ego is undamaged.
Onward and upward!

Apparently breathing ….

Oooh forgot, tonight it was making gravy....not thick enough....

Not me but my daughter, the teacher told me she was writing ‘o’ incorrectly she was starting in the wrong spot!

I know she was making some point about doing joined you writing later, but she was 4. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous to be criticising her about this when she was just figuring out her letters.

Anyway she is 10 now and can definitely write her o’s fine and dandy.

I am the orangutan.

Smile. My smile is too lopsided apparantly and looks smug.

I was once watering some recently planted and drooping bedding plants in my front garden and was told off by a cantankerous old git an indignant passer-by that I was watering them at the wrong time of day, and I should be watering them in the evening.

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.

20 years ago when I was an office junior stuffing envelopes, my manager came rushing out of her office and told me I was not allowed to tap the envelope to ensure the address was showing in the envelope window. It was one of many trivial things she complained about.