What do other people do the 'wrong' way

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Following on from another thread my DH informed me the other night that I load the cutlery wrong in our dishwasher. It has a cutlery tray at the top and he says it's easier to put the knives on the far away side because they are easier to turn than the forks .......

I also have to refold half my washing if DM or MIL (kindly) fold it for me because they won't fit in nice piles with those already in the drawers

Those are things other people do, I don't do them.
Another one is pegging out washing so that the t-shits are pegged at the shoulders - dried as a crisp in the sun they look weird on. And no I am not going to iron them for you.

The people I know who don't have a bathroom bin usually have a little pile of things like the box the toothpaste came in, loo roll cardboard an stuff in the corner.

My mum used to moan her vacuum cleaner wasn't any good.
We then discovered she was using the hard floor setting on carpets and the carpet setting on hard floors. It took a while for her to believe she had it the wrong way round.
DH once made the mistake of critiquing how I loaded the dishwasher. Maybe he'd have had a point if I was doing it very badly and things were in danger of being broken. I wasn't, just not quite doing the full on anal retentive job he would do (and taking a fraction of the time). Backfired on him, as I told him that he was clearly the master at dishwashing so should do it all himself.
He clearly concluded that my "good enough" method was fine and hasn't mentioned anything since.

I tie shoe laces wrong. I mean they come out ok and the generally (but not always) stay tied. I really struggled to learn as a child and the person who in my teens eventually managed to teach me was left handed whereas I am right handed. So I do them as a left hander but use my right hand if that makes sense.

I eat ‘wrong’ and people have commented on it through my life - I think they’re rude fuckers. Anyway I have fork in right hand, knife in left hand. Always have. My brain cannot process doing it the opposite way, even when I was a child at school and the dinner ladies would scream at me about it (which wasn’t even that long ago as I’m 30 now).

IDGAF that etiquette says using cutlery the way I do is rude. Pointing out someone’s ‘breach of etiquette’ is much more rude.

I cut my food with the knife in my right hand then move my fork into my right hand to eat
That’s the American way of eating with cutlery.

Brushing teeth or washing up with the tap running drives me nuts because it wastes water. We’re on a water meter too!

DH does scrambled eggs wrong. He whisks them into tiny crumbs and overcooks them so water leaks out. His eggs are all hard and watery and disgusting, I won’t eat them. I like nice big soft buttery lumps, cooked to perfection.

It's funny how you just do things the way they were done when you were growing up. We were bleeding the radiators recently. In my house as a child, a J cloth was used to catch any water, so it felt inherently wrong to see my husband using a tea towel for that purpose, as his parents did.

We also don't agree on the 'right way for a child to be sick. His preference: in the loo, as it can be flushed and cleaned. My preference: stay in their room, use specified bucket lined with a liner and a pad of kitchen paper, so germs are restricted to one room (we only have one loo) and it can be binned in the outside bin immediately.

I am right-handed, but learnt to tie my shoelaces left-handed, as a left-handed person showed me. I then taught my right-handed daughter the same way as me. We will have a whole tribe of left-handed shoe-tiers as this rate.

I read the last chapter of a book first so I don't have to be all stressed about how its going to end while I'm reading...

Drives my DH up the wall.

My DHs entire family cant hang laundry. The the fling it over the line/radiator. No flick to remove creases, no attempt to space it out properly so that it dries quickly. Just crumpled pants hanging over a line.

My DS2 stirs things anti clockwise. Strange child.

*I read a few at a time depending what "mood" I'm in so I'll often have 2 non fiction, 1 academic, 1 Novel and 1 classic novel all on the go at once, for example

Nobody understands how I remember where I am, but I do.
I rarely use book marks either, and don't turn the corner to mark where I am*

Exactly, that's how I read for decades. Of course that's a perfectly sensible way to do it. I only have one book on the go anymore these days or I'd never get through, as I don't have so much time anymore.

My DH and DS1 are both left handed. It’s painful watching them do ANYTHING

I'm left--handed and my DP says this about me.

He doesn't hang washing properly. He hangs items from the wrong bit and doesn't fill the ceiling airer up properly, so he has to resort to hanging overspill on the floor-standing hanger. I've got it down to a fine art and can ALWAYS find a nook or cranny for those last few socks.

I know a few people who eat biscuits alongside a cup of tea but don't dunk them What is the earthly POINT of a cup of tea if it's not this?

I tend to eat with just a fork in one hand (I have mad skills at cutting and manipulating meat with one hand :D), but when I have a knife, it goes in the left hand.

Cutlery conventions are daft - it's not rude to do it one way or the other, it's very unpleasant, on the other hand, to be sprayed with my inept fumbling hands if I have cutlery the wrong way around for me!

Serious question about whether to do hoovering or dusting first. My instinct is to dust, then hoover, as some dust may fall on the carpet and then need to be hoovered up. Whereas I have had two separate family members gang up criticise me saying that hoovering throws dust into the air, setting on all the things you have just dusted. I can see both sides! Help!

Also I purposely open crisp packets upside down because it winds my DH and a few of my friends up, they think it’s wrong

People who park in a huge space between other cars, but slap bang in the middle so there is not enough room for another car either in front, or behind but an annoying amount of wasted space either side. Just move forward or back a bit, you selfish twat.

People who wash up all wrong. Water not hot enough, they don't change the water halfway through so towards the end it's like a soupy gruel with floating bits, people who don't wash up in the right order so the glasses and cutlery get all greasy and smeary at the end.

People who swill coffee and tea cups under a luke warm tap and think they are washed. They are not. My MIL does this and all her cups have horrible stains in them as a result.

People who don't use washing up bowls. unless you have a double sink, where do you throw all the slops?

People who hang washing out wrong so it doesn't dry evenly and gets all screwed up.

People who rinse everything so bloody thoroughly before they put it in the dishwasher that you wonder why they bother with a dishwasher at all.

On the flip side, people who think the dishwasher is some sort of magical waste disposal unit.

People DH who think they are being marvellous by remembering to hang up their wet towel but lay it over the top of another wet towel.

1 wet towel placed over another wet towel = 2 wet towels.
1 wet towel placed over one dry towel = 2 wet towels.
1 wet towel over nothing but the banister or towel rail = 1 dry towel.

It's really not that difficult.

perfect housewife stuff was brilliant!

Why in this day and age are women striving to be the perfect housewife?!

I always did the washing up wrong, or rather did things in the wrong order, or actually, what both mil and dh meant was that I didn't rinse every single thing separately in running hot water as it came out of the washing up bowl. Or something. Whatever I did it was wrong in some way or another, but things were clean and rinsd at the end of the process so I figured it was OK. Sometimes,if I heard oneof them coming when I hadn't quite finished, I wold quickly chucks suds all over the clean stuff othe draining board, just to watch them get twitchy before the "oh you haven't done......etc".

I think he does it on purpos in hopes that I'll tell him never to do it again. Dream on dp.

Strategic incompetence...it's a thing.

I couldn't begin to list the wrong things. I think one of the problems is that it makes me feel unreasonable tho' the scale of things I'm talking about is Baby Groot level in GOTG2 (the scene where's he asked to retrieve an object). A recent example, I asked DH to get some glace lemon peel for me, and showed him the 150g tub it comes in. He brought home a 10kg tub of preserved lemons.

I know a few people who eat biscuits alongside a cup of tea but don't dunk them confused What is the earthly POINT of a cup of tea if it's not this?

My DH doesn't dunk, he has no idea what he's missing. Winds me right up!

DH sniffs wrongly. It drives me insane.

ExH used to eat yoghurt or similar small dessert with a teaspoon, as the spoon entered his big mouth he would turn it upside down. Why?Just why? It used to drive me so mad I stopped buying any small pot type desserts.

People who open packets by tearing down the middle, rather than tearing or slicing with a scissors across the top. This is in situations where the packet will be reused.

Tearing down the middle means that tear gets bigger and bigger every time the packet is used until the stuff is tumbling out.

Tearing across the top preserves the integrity of the packet better and the packet lasts longer.

Glad I got that off my chest.

People who put open food packages in the cupboards/fridge/freezer. Even my own adult DC who were bought up to know better do it sometimes. We have a holiday home which we often loan to friends and family members and people invariably leave unsealed pasta/bread in the cupboards or open packs of cheese and ham etc in the fridge even though there are many, many lock and lock boxes, tins, food clips etc available. It drives me mad.

Dishwasher loading appears to be a theme. Neither dh nor I can stand the way the other does it. His way looks as if he's stood at a distance and thrown everything in its general direction. He says my way wastes space