What do other people do the 'wrong' way

[Mabumssare]

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

You work downwards
(First you tidy everything and put it in the right place)
Then you start by dusting the tops of things
Then clean and dust mid levels, then the lower ones
Then you hoover, then you mop

Yes. Thank you!

I hate it when cleaners say 'there will be three of us so we can be in and out in an hour or two. One person goes straight round with the hoover while someone else does the dusting and someone else does the bathrooms.'

No, no and NO. How can you vacuum first and still expect the floors and carpets to be clean after you've wiped and dusted all sorts of bits off the surfaces and shaken the bedding out and plumped the cushions and knocked feathers everywhere? Hmm?

Ah bumble yeah that makes sense.

Is that you, Sheldon?

DS:
always puts dishes across two dividers (so, kind of diagonally) in the dishwasher.

Cleaner:
doesn't scrub taps properly, leaving limescale mountains.
puts the mop's head inside the bucket once she's finished, not on the litle basket, so it remains wet

Many other people, including bf and BIL:
wash meat [grr]

BF:
keeps turning water on and off during a quick shower, supposedly to save water/gas I think

Lab students:
don't pay enough attention to contamination sources and behaviour

Other drivers
list too long to mention (e.g. no indicators, going right to turn left, roundabouts, parking, dropping children at school, driving in the middle, no lights during fog, ...)

women in public toilets:
hovering. Just fucking sit and don't splash the seat.

I'll think of a few more later.

Am I wrong in thinking that if you are sweeping a flight of stairs,you start at the top

You're not wrong.

All you wrong handed cutlery manglers, no-one cares or notices what hand you use for what, so long as you are handling the cutlery properly and managing to actually use the knife to cut, not pull or drag.

When you look like you are really struggling to master what should be a fairly basic motor skill, it should occur to you that most people hold their knife in the same hand they hold their pen for a reason.

DH has a degree in chemistry. The way he stirs tea drives me mad - I stir gently and in a circular motion; he treats it like an experiment and "agitates" it. Basically clattering the teaspoon on the sides of the mug.

I'd be impressed if he used a magnetic stirrer.

Cups need hot water to kill diseases from the previous drinker’s mouth.

You don't kill diseases. You kill germs.

Also, when people say "the gene for the disease". Genes don't cause diseases. Faulty genes cause diseases.

Too niche?

People load my dishwasher wrong. It has a cutlery tray at the top (best. Invention. Ever) and for some reason known only unto themselves, no one else can work out that the easiest way to fill it is to separate them into the types of cutlery (knife, fork, dessert spoons, teaspoons) and lay them so that each one alternates. So the knives all have the blades to the middle because their handles don’t fit the gaps and then everything else has the handles to the middle. No one else seems to get why this is most efficient- it’s literally the ONLY way to get things to all fit at the same time!!

Oh and washing. DH thinks all washing gets done at 40. He has no concept that his filthy farm work clothes need 60, as do bedding and towels. He also thinks that everything is tumble dried. I have acquired a lovely collection of jumpers- for dolls!

I’ve got another. DH insists that DD can wear tights like she wears leggings. She can’t. She looks absurd. He doesn’t understand why it’s a problem apparently

Toilet roll scrunches are wrong. And people who stand up to wipe their arse are completely wrong.

You fold. You sit.

Scrunching is inefficient, wasteful and messy.

Standing up to wipe must be very messy with your arse cheeks pushed together like that.

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.My husband ties his shoelaces back to front-he used to do his younger sisters for her, and ties his the same way.

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...
I do exactly the same thing-I like to know it's going to have a happy ending. And if I re=read a book with a sad bit, I sometimes skip it.

Clotted cream goes on scones before jam. Because it's taking the place of butter

@waitingforthenextbus
apparently load the dishwasher 'wrong' according to control freak DW who is blessed with the knowledge on how to do everything the 'right' way.

Are you my husband....?

Using way too much washing up liquid is wrong. Doing that and not rinsing is double wrong.

Having the poppers of the duvet cover at the head end is wrong.

Saving everything on "Desktop" on the PC is wrong.

Boiling vegetables is wrong. (We always steam.)

Stretching wires (eg plugged into a PC) to within an inch of their life is wrong.

Oh, and the teabag must never touch the milk.

@mirialis

I don't actually dust again but I know people who do
I never get the chance though Tbf

Am I wrong in thinking that if you are sweeping a flight of stairs,you start at the top,for obvious reasons?

I start at the bottom, so I don't have to backwards down our stairs. (Which are bloody steep and uneven and would breach current building regs).

Everything? 🧐

@ALongHardWinter Yes you start at the top and work your way down --I used to be a cleaner and we got told to do it that way, although most cleaners are never told and just expected to use their common sense

You also mop in figures of 8
Clean mirrors, windows and screens in figure of 8 starting at the top (otherwise you get drips/water marks)
Tiles you clean the grouting first, then start from the top in a swiping motion from side to side and not in a figure of 8 (for square tiles) but so that you go from left to right, down slightly then right to left, then down slightly left to right etc

YES! A hundred times yes to doing laundry wrong. DP works at sea killing fish. He thinks a 30° wash and 800 spin is just fine for work clothes and even bedding even though we live in the Highlands and it takes days to dry things indoors in winter.

Turn out toward the centre of the road prior to turning left, making a big 'round' bend instead of slowing down and moving closer to the kerb.

My brothet is incapable of learning how to make a cup of coffee and a simple meal. I’ve had to show him how to fix yourself something simple to eat and make a cup of tea. I’m considering enrolling him in a course on independence and living skills.

People who laboriously use mouse movements to do quick processes tht can be done so much faster by keyboard commands.....

Gives me rage if I'm waiting...

People who laboriously open every sale/scam/ad mail.... You can select and delete 100s at a time!