Things other people do that you just don't 'get'

[DebbieFiderer]

Mine are -

Starting to drive off, then putting your seat belt on whilst trying to control the car at the same time. Why? It can't save more than a second, looks awkward, and is dangerous!

Putting bananas into a little plastic bag before putting them in the trolley - the only reason I can see for the plastic bags is to keep loose veg together, or to keep edible parts clean, neither of which applies to bananas, so what's the point?

Taking shopping trollies back to the trolley park but not actually connecting them up with the ones already there - you've done about 95% of the effort, is it really that hard to make someone else's life a bit easier by putting it away properly?

( Yes, mine do seem to be mostly supermarket related but I suppose that's where I come across other people most of the time!)

Actually, I do have one non-supermarket one - people only using one half of a set of double doors when there is a queue of people all wanting to go through - they all line up patiently to go through the one door rather than just OPENING THE OTHER ONE!!

Washing cars.

My neighbour spends four hours every Sunday washing his car. My car gets washed once a year in the drive through.

I can’t understand people who can go on holidays for a week and leave their kids behind.
DH and I have had the occasional 1 night away for special occasions but I could never fly off in the sunshine and leave my kids with relatives.

My cousin and his wife regularly do it and someone I know is currently on holiday with her husband in the Caribbean without their kids! I just don’t get it! I didn’t have my kids to fuck off and dump them on everyone else!

Mine is reversing into spaces. It's making life more difficult. Reverse out it easier and makes more sense having your boot facing out.

Reversing out is more dangerous as the driver can’t see what they are emerging into until almost the whole car is out of the space.

I don't get why people type reams and reams in their answers on Mumsnet. No one's opinions are that interesting.

Packs of secondary school children who just keep marching along making everyone else coming the other way step into the road. Our local public school is shocking for this. They also cross several feet from the zebra crossing, rather than walk across it.
Local comprehensive children walk across the zebra crossing without looking, which also drives me mad.
Agree about trollies left in parking spaces. You start to drive into a space, realise the reason it was empty in the first place is that there is a trolley at the end, so you have to find another space.
Shops where the parent and child spaces are nearer the entrance than the disabled spaces. Morrisons are bad for this.

What a weird post. So secondary age children piss you off by daring to walk on pavements and use zebra crossings? What should they do? Remain under house arrest for their teen age years? Did you yourself walk on pavements at that age?

Selfies, filters, taking any notice of social media influencers

Smoking, especially when asthmatic, with COPD and your mum recently dying of LC

The neighbours opening and closing on gate on the driveway every time they go out in the car...even if it's just for a few minutes

Flicking constantly through the TV guide EVERY FUCKING TIME the adverts come on. Has it changed in the last 10 minutes...no it fucking hasn't

Those who wear really uncomfortable shoes at work and by lunchtime are hobbling around in bare feet

People stopping in doorways

Haha. No it isn't the children themselves, it is the way they barge at you, when they could move over to one side, let people coming the other way pass, and then bunch up again. I don't think anyone, of any age should push other people into the road.
But thank you for calling me strange.

It's not the walking in pavements and crossing roads she doesn't like

.it's the walking in huge groups blocking pavements. And crossing roads without looking.....

That’s what young teenagers do. They are abit clueless and self centred and are still learning. You were too. It’s like bitching about toddlers running round a park.

@dirtydennis you appear to have just listed lots of things you don’t like or don’t do, rather than things you don’t get.

People who don't get a receipt when paying contactless for something - how on earth do you keep track of how much you've spent

There is this amazing invention call a bank statement that shows you. Also online banking with a real time list of transactions.

Now also on most smart phones you get apps to tell you what’s going on.

“Ping - notification - £18.72 - Bar Central. You have spent £144.64 today in Bars and Restaurants and £32 on Uber” ooooh fuuuuuuck 😂

Gardening.

Washing school blazers weekly

I don’t get:

People don’t like socialising with their supposed friends. If you want and like friends, you probably need to actually hang with them.

People who don’t eat leftovers? Why?! Tasty and easy and reduces waste.

People who wash towels and bedding after every use. Yeah, I just think you’re a bit nuts and like making housework to justify your SAHM position. And if you work, even more nuts.

People with really messy, cluttered and/or unclean houses. How can you enjoy coming home to your home like that? It should be a sanctuary of calm where you can relax and feel good about yourself/life. How can you do that with piles of clutter everywhere?

People that stay in bad relationships after they have a baby, and then go on to have another baby. I get it. Leaving is hard. But you didn’t need to have 2 and 3 with the useless lard-ass did you?! Making it exponentially harder to leave. Talking about rubbish partners, not abusive ones.

Straws, one hundred times.

Why on earth would you be investing in washable metal straws and tiny brushes, “ecologically” made non disposable ones, those that disintegrate in 5 months or complaining about useless paper straws when the most ecological solution is not use them at all?

Leaving your car keys out in plain sight/downstairs when you go to bed at night......

DF, DH and PIL all "put car keys away" when they go to bed, I assumed this was normal until SIL pointed out she thinks it's paranoid and weird and most people just leave them on the side/in the hall/in the kitchen.

Ditto using both sets of car keys. Our spare is put away in a cupboard with the log book/paperwork for the car and DH and I just use the one key. Apparently everyone else uses both sets (one for him and one for her so to speak).

Mind. Blown.

Also, this MN thing about not answering your door when someone knocks "unexpectedly".

EH???

People who wash towels and bedding after every use. Yeah, I just think you’re a bit nuts and like making housework to justify your SAHM position

Or they just like clean towels,it's not like they're taking them down to the river to beat against a rock,they're bunging them in a machine

Leaving your car keys out in plain sight/downstairs when you go to bed at night......

I'm the very opposite. I can't for the life of me understand why people hide their keys. If someone breaks into my house wanting to steal my car the last thing I want is for him to have to start searching for the keys and become increasingly stressed and angry, because that's when people get violent. I want him to see the keys and be back out the door inside 30 seconds.

Texting to ask for permission before making a call. Next thing will be to check if they are connected to WhatsApp before sending a message.

... oh, er... we are already there.

People with really messy, cluttered and/or unclean houses. How can you enjoy coming home to your home like that?

I get that some people really don't care and have other priorities.
What I really never understand is the ones who have to frantically "guest-clean" before they can have visitors. WHY? Either you are happy - and you leave it as it is, or you don't like the state of your home and why do you put up with it?
It makes no sense to make an effort for someone who spends 1 hour but not for people who actually LIVE in the house. Puzzle me completely.

Adults 'gaming '. FFS.

@bobstersmum Errrrrm, okay

this MN thing about not answering your door when someone knocks "unexpectedly"

why should I?
I am busy, in the middle of something, or don't want to be bothered. I can't think of any reason why I should answering my door anymore than I should answer my phone to an unknown number if I don't think like it.