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!!

I don't get BLW. It seems to be driving all the other NCT mothers in my group mad and feeling like failures if they have to give their babies mashed up food ever.

This one seems to just be about your child. I didn't understand why anyone spoon fed - they hate it! You can just give them food and they pick it up and eat it! - until I saw other babies being fed, and realised that they don't all dislike a spoon, as DS does, and they aren't all eager to feed themselves from the off. I think whichever way your child prefers seems more 'natural' to you and so it seems obvious that everyone should do it.

People who put a food item in their trolley and then decide they don't want it. So instead of putting it back where they got it from they just drop it in some random place so it's ruined. Think fresh joint of meat being dumped in the freezer section or cheese dumped in the tinned section. Lazy lazy fuckers, it really pisses me off like you can't believe.

Oh my yes the fully washing every dish and then putting it in the dishwasher! WTF!

Skin care routines.
People loading salt/pepper on their food without tasting it.
Acrylic nails.
Magazines like Heat.
Suduko. I mean, why?
Americans who like Donald Trump.
Quinoa.

People that smoke. Especially young adults, who in this day and age are well aware of the dangers and it's so bloody expensive!

People who suddenly stop in the middle of the supermarket aisle.
People who kind of guard the yellow sticker section as the cheapy bits are being out out, just so they can get first dibs

The need to drink alcohol every day.

People wearing Linen always look as if they've spent a night in the cells for drunk and disorderly and have just got out

Yes!

My one is people doing a weekly shop at all, except from one of the discounters (aldi, Lidl) that doesn't deliver. I don't get why anyone would go to Sainsburys on a Saturday when they'll bring the stuff right to your house for you.

In defence of the Next sale, it was the thing to do twenty years ago, when we only had twice yearly sales, ie. January and July sales. People would save their money up to go to these sales. Now, there’s sales all year around, so it’s not the same, but, I guess, people have got into the habit of ‘going to the Next sale’.

Fancy dress

I don’t get Boxing Day sales shopping at all. It seems so depressing. ‘I’ve just spent a shitload of money on Christmas...now I think I’ll go out and spend a shitload more on a bank holiday’. Madness.

Oh, and going clubbing. It's like being in a pub except all the drinks cost double the price and you can't talk to anyone. I honestly expected clubs would die once pubs and bars could stay open past 11 and was astonished that people still chose to go to them. I thought they were only doing it because they were the only place open at 2am.

Getting lip fillers.

Posing for photos with a pout rather than a smile, and making gestures with their fingers (what's that all about?).

Not putting weights away in the gym, especially not taking weights off the barbell because not everyone is as tall and as strong as you.

Don't get the panic about putting the divider thing between my shopping and hours on the conveyor. Don't flippin' panic, do you honestly think I'm going to start paying for your shopping?

Sorry but I judge people who have thick black slug eyebrows with a sharp end on each in the middle of the face. I imagine you must be daft as a brush to go out with two monstrosities on your face.

*my shopping and yours. Not hours

I always reverse into a space as it’s far safer when pulling out especially as small children can and do run out of nowhere.

Similarly I dont understand people abandoning their shopping trolley on the side in the car park. Surely they realise someone else has to sort out their laziness?

My husband used to have a job cleaning/maintaining the car park of a large supermarket. It was a mindnumbingly boring job. He actually quite enjoyed rounding up stray trolleys and sorting out trolley-station tangles.

My biggest gripe is parents at school parking on double yellow lines because they are to lazy to walk a few extra feet.

Oh, so many yesses!

I work with schools so understand limited parking around them, however I have two schools that share a huge site with a shared car park. I'm talking small supermarket size car park, fully enclosed by fencing, with marked out parking bays and yet, despite all of the parking spaces parents STILL PARK ON THE YELLOW ZIGZAG right outside of the school door. WHY, JUST WHY?

People loading salt/pepper on their food without tasting it.

This or tomatoe ketchup, salad cream or mayonnaise.

I don’t get fancy dress either. Whatever the fun element is, it bypasses me. I’m not saying that people shouldn’t enjoy it, that’s up to them, but I don’t understand why they do.
Fancy dressers are often quite pushy about other people joining in with it, I find. They can’t understand why someone wouldn’t want to.
There’s a disconnect between the camps.

On the supermarket thing.... last week I saw a woman in Sainsburys leave her trolley in the very middle of each aisle then go back and forth to it. So she would enter a new aisle, wheel her trolley to the middle. Leave it there and go up and down the aisle without it and collect items and go back to her trolley. It was so bizarre that I just watched for a bit. Much more effort, and hard for others to manouvre around. How oblivious do you have to be?

I don't understand one of my colleagues who bitches and moans about how much work she has yet does not let anyone - including the support staff- assist her. She sometimes goes in at weekends and then complains- but she has a secretary and a junior who are both employed to assist her and who are mostly left shrugging their shoulders as she refuses their help again.

People that crowd around the reduced section my poor nan tried to pick up some reduced mince and someone punched her in her back over it mind you she did kick off back at them all this to save £1.50

People who stop in the middle of the street, the middle of the isle or in whistable in the middle of the walking path near the beach with there buggy’s -just F off!!!! Move along please, move your trolley or buggy to the side and KEEP WALKING.😇

People who kind of guard the yellow sticker section as the cheapy bits are being out out, just so they can get first dibs

Yes! I love a good yellow sticker bargain myself but I think it's really rude to crowd round the shop assistant as they're doing the reductions. I see it all the time.
I also quite often see people with a trolley full of yellow sticker items and wonder if they're actually going to eat them all. If it's stuff to freeze then fair enough but most of the time it's piles of fresh sandwiches or salads that people have nabbed.
I think the yellow sticker love should be shared widely and not hogged by a sharp-elbowed few!

The shopping trolleys 'abandoned' are a thing in the disabled section of our Tesco carpark. It's actually very helpful to have a trolley close by to hang on to if you find it difficult to walk and equally difficult to return it to the trolley park and then struggle to walk back. But, generally speaking, that's a fair comment and leaving them is often pure laziness.

I hate the people who hover in the road on our main street, hoping for a car to leave and blocking the flow of traffic for everyone else. Judging by the sort of car many of them drive they can well afford 50p for the car park opposite!

Another one who doesn't get the huge black sluggy eyebrow thing. What part of them can possibly imagine they are attractive?

Mums walking two abreast on our narrow pavements with a buggy each, chatting away and oblivious to the fact no one can get past. Surely one can drop back for a second instead of assuming others will step into the road for them.

I'm a right grumpy old git...