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

@Slub

I found out thanks to MN I'd spent the majority of my life opening oxo cubes wrong so I now do it the 'right' way.

Life changing!

I've seen this and it's cobblers! When I was growing up the cubes weren't sealed, the foil was just folded around like a parcel, so you couldn't crumble them in their packets. This is just something put out by youngsters to make the oldies look stupid - and I am more than capable of making myself look stupid without any help , thank you very much 😕

According to my XP, I walk too quickly - it wasn't me who was about 6 st overweight.

@CruCru

I eat wrongly. When I eat, I often eat all of one thing (like broccoli) then all of another. Apparently I am supposed to cut up all my food and put a bit of everything on my fork.

I mean, I’d see the point if I only ate one thing then left everything else. However I am good at eating my dinner, I just like the components to have turns.

That is how i eat too.

I will chill Mars bars and roll the caramel away from the fluffy bit and eat it last, ‘can’t you not just eat a thing without taking it to bits first??’

I nibble the side chocolate off a Bounty first, then the top, then the bottom and finally the coconut. It's not the same any other way.

I felt like a total bitch for telling my assistant she was putting the address labels on envelopes in the wrong place.

But tbf, she puts them on the top left. Not return labels, but the actual address.

I maintain that I'm right.

If a bit petty.

@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

Plus you know what veg you want to go with the meals then? I do it that way as well.

@Amdone123

We got a new mop bucket the other day, much to the excitement of my dh. He showed me how to do it. ( I'm a cleaner).

oh I'd be needing a shit ton of demonstrations......

@neekeem

I felt like a total bitch for telling my assistant she was putting the address labels on envelopes in the wrong place.

But tbf, she puts them on the top left. Not return labels, but the actual address.

I maintain that I'm right.

If a bit petty.

but that can screw things up with the mail if they think its the from address and not the to address

Being told I drive incorrectly or 'don't drive properly' by my DM, who has never taken a lesson or driven in her life. Apparently overtaking is 'against the law' too and the right hand lane of a motorway is not to be used 😬 scary!

Running the bath for my DH. Never done it since in thirty years. According to an old boss, not dressing smartly enough for my company BMW on my day off 🤣🤣

Peeling Garlic. I top and tail and then pick the top layer off. DP does some fancy trick where he sqidges the clove with a knife and it makes bugger all difference to time taken or effectiveness of peeling.

@NetballHoop

When I was about 10 we stayed in a hotel on the South coast. At breakfast I chose an apple from the fruit selection and bit into it only to be told off by an elderly lady at the next table for not eating it with my cutlery. Who the hell eats an apple with their knife and fork?

Ugh, that gave me a flashback to boarding school, where we were made to do exactly that. Sometimes at weekends we would get a Mars bar for dessert (about the time there were poisoned ones in circulation, so Mars bars were cheap!) and we even had to cut the bloody Mars bars up and eat them with a fork! >shudders

DP told me I made scrambled egg wrong because I didn't sieve the egg (before putting in the pan).

He then proceeded to do it and waved an eggy sieve under my nose with some tiny little bits and pieces in it. Apparently, Heston Blumenthal sieves eggs. Unlike Heston, I am not running a Michelin-starred restaurant where people pay through the nose for utter perfection.

Books on trolley not in order. I was going to sort them out when I went to shelve them. I kept doing it to be annoying. I loathe being micro managed.

But doesn’t that then mean your frozen stuff defrosts? I use the front bit of the trolley for the fruit.

@dizzydizzydizzy

DP told me I made scrambled egg wrong because I didn't sieve the egg (before putting in the pan).

He then proceeded to do it and waved an eggy sieve under my nose with some tiny little bits and pieces in it. Apparently, Heston Blumenthal sieves eggs. Unlike Heston, I am not running a Michelin-starred restaurant where people pay through the nose for utter perfection.

Who cleaned the sieve afterwards? 🌹

Years ago I was told I was on the wrong pavement on Waterloo Bridge.

I was walking on the left hand side of the right hand pavement.

No, me neither.

(this was pre-covid, in 2013!)

Eating

Another vote for dishwasher protocol.

Pushing the baby out with unhelpful suggestions from ex...

@ShinyGreenElephant that's made my day -

'Reader, I bit him'

I get out the shower wrong. Apparently I should dry my foot before it lands on the bath mat, then dry the other.

Oh on the stapling thing I was told to staple in the top left hand corner at a diagonal angle so the paper sits better than it does if you do it straight. I've done it that way evermore. Also a double space after a full stop. I need my lawyer's quill pen too :)

@TacoSunday

I get out the shower wrong. Apparently I should dry my foot before it lands on the bath mat, then dry the other.

i would end up on my bum if I tried that one

Flossing after brushing my teeth. Not going to change.

I've been told I blow my nose wrong,too hard apparently. I've also been told I butter bread the wrong way (didn't ask how) and cut sandwiches all wrong (diagonally instead of across ways).