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

My 15yo has decided that none of us eats correctly 😳 Her sister is the worst offender (must say, I agree), followed by her father. I’m much further down the list, apparently, but I think that’s because I do the cooking, so she needs to keep me on board 😆 I actually think she has misophonia, as she really finds watching/listening other people eating disgusting 😳

[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]
I normally nibble the chocolate off one of the fingers and eat the wafer part last and the other finger I bite the ends off and use it as a straw to drink some of my cup of tea through, which makes the chocolate melt and biscuit go all soggy and nice. At the moment though I'm having to quietly bite tiny bits off and suck it until it's soft enough for me to chew without being caught eating it. I will add I'm late thirties but meant to be on a diet

@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.

The cantankerous old git os most definitely wrong. It is an Old Wives' tale, sorry.

It is the absence of water at the roots on a hot day that will damage a plant. Hot damp soil will not hurt a plant, but hot dry soil will. You can water at any time of day and it will not harm the plant in any way whatsoever. If you see that plants are showing signs of drying out, they need rehydrating as soon as possible, don't wait until after the sun has gone off, or you could end up killing them altogether.

Watering in the morning is preferable but if you leave a plant without water because it's the 'wrong time of day' to water it, then the plant will lose fine roots, cells will collapse and foliage will be damaged. All of which could have been avoided.

And yes, you can get the leaves wet too - Mother Nature is quite sensible and over billions of years has designed plants that can cope with getting wet and then the sun coming out.

@PenguindreamsofDraco

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.

Using keyboard shortcut for some commands rather than the mouse.

Walking on the level. I was walking too strongly.
Walking up an escalator. I was walking with unladylike rapidity.
Closing a car door.
Sweating. I was supposed to exercise in hot weather and not sweat.
Being a woman. I had religious reading recommended to me as I allegedly had problems being a woman.

I eat olives like an apple. Was really bollocked by a boyfriend once for this. It ended our relationship. Still eat them like apples, and my husband has never noticed.... ex still single. Lol

Walking 5 steps outside to a different table without wearing a mask… ffs

@Flamglimglubberty

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.

Sideways?! The horror! The horror!

Apparently I use too much washing up liquid when washing the dishes. according to my EXDP. I should be using a pea size drop, and no bigger.

This advice was given to me earnestly on at least a weekly basis, despite him washing up about once a month (we didn't have a dishwasher).

@Sojo88

*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*

I can see your logic although I think most supermarkets are set out so you visit the frozen food/chilled section last, so they don't start defrosting while you continue shopping!

And also so when you come to pack away the last stuff in the trolley is the first in the bag to further prevent squishing.

According to my husband who is long gone now and in no particular order.. I am guilty of the following...

Vaccuming in front of the TV is not allowed
Vaccuming on the full power also not allowed
Pulling the handbrake on the car wrongly
Misuse of windscreen wipers.
Literally anything I did of my own accord was wrong -he wouldn't have done it like that..
I closed the car doors wrong.

I filled the petrol in the car wrong
Oh gosh t's all coming back..

I need a lie down

According to an ex - chopped tomatoes too thickly and carrots too thinly - or it may have been the other way round . I clearly took it all on board very seriously.

Mowing the lawn was a major friction point until I mentioned that I would happily sit on a garden chair with a large G&T and watch him do it.

Suddenly I can now mow the lawn correctly.

I have been cooking for decades. Never poisoned anyone. According to my ds (30) i am a terrible cook. I have told him to cook for himself which he has. I have a great response to my Christmas and Sunday dinner invites. Life is ao much better now he cooks for himself. He still avails of the get together dinners..i wonder why?

I remember being told off as a kid for eating a cherry tomato whole. Also being criticised for holding my knife and fork the 'wrong way around'

I worked in a very old fashioned department store when I was a teenager. When I started, they’d recently recarpeted the narrow stairs that led to the staff room, and the office where customers paid their bill. I was accused of walking up the stairs the wrong way. It turns out only customers were allowed to walk up normally. Staff had to keep their feet right at the edge so the carpet wore out evenly.

@PenguindreamsofDraco

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.

It's the dishwasher loading here. Apparently I do not have the gene for loading the dishwasher correctly. And I am unable to learn it.

So I just let DH do his thing. So much easier than having him correct me and reload it.

According to my ex I wasn't pushing our DD out correctly. I bit him and the midwives made no attempt to help him

I had a male friend take a wine bottle off me as I was uncorking it. It still smarts that they didn’t think me capable of opening wine.

I had a woman at work make a fairly formal complaint to our boss that I made phone calls to get flight availability instead of doing it by multiple back and forth emails. It was an interesting meeting trying to get to the bottom of whatever the hell the problem was.

Leaving washed dishes to dry in the rack.
Saying no thank you to ice in my glass of water.
Choosing to walk somewhere instead of driving.
Cycling to my office and getting showered and changed there.

All are absolutely scandalous, according to my former stepmother-in-law.

Tying my shoelaces. As a child I could never manage the 'around the tree' method so used the 'bunny ears' method instead. This was considered unacceptable by a number of teachers who spent an inordinate amount of time trying to help me master the 'correct' method to tie shoelaces.

Told off for having a tidy desk.

Breathing and sneezing. Unrelated.