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!!

People who line up behind other cars at pumps in petrol stations when other pumps are free. The hose stretches round the other side

There have been whole threads about this. The hose does not stretch and there is a reason your car tells you what size your petrol cap is on.

This is another reason to buy that e-Corsa I think!

Everytime Kate or Meghan wear something
It immediately sells out! I don't get it??
Why would woman want to copy their clothes?

People who feel sorry for deaf people

being the same people who complain about babies on plane, noisy neighbours, hate people who eat loudly, hate their own noisy children at end of long day, whinge about colleagues talking loudly on phone, paying over the odds not to share walls with neighbours.

next comment after me - I don't get people who think ability to hear is overrated :)

No, but it might get a stain that won't come off no matter what you do or it might simply go out of fashion. I'm not a big fashion follower, but there some things that just look silly a few years in no matter how 'classic' you thought they were at the time.

That’s equally applicable to every other shop.

I don’t buy what’s ‘in fashion’, don’t even know what’s in fashion. I buy clothes that look great on me, and fit well. I am still wearing clothes from ten years ago that look great. I don’t think your point is really relevant to Primark.

My mum does the seatbelt thing and after a few seconds it beeps really loudly. She feals with this by shouting over it EVERY SINGLE TIME

*deals! I may need anger management

@morondela I'm so confused. You don't have a toilet in your bathroom? Where does the toilet go then?

People who allow their small children to pick leaves off the plants in other people's gardens as they walk past.

People who let their kids fiddle with items on display in shops or exhibitions.

Adults (who should know better) doing the same.

People who don't bother using their indicators. Don't worry, I'll just sit here at this junction and wait like a lemon for you to go past, and then find that you turn the corner instead.

Dog owners who think that there must be something wrong with you because you don't want their dog to jump up at you when you are walking along minding your own business. I don't care if he's friendly, I don't want to make friends with your animal, thanks very much.

People who have ridiculously long false nails. Don't you find they hamper your everyday life? Ordinary false nails I can understand, because they look neat and last a lot longer than nail varnish, but great long talons?

Why would anyone want to read Hello magazine? It's not real, is it now?

Chickenwing
You don't have a toilet in your bathroom? Where does the toilet go then?
in a separate room? Just different rooms, 1 for showers bath and sink, and 1 for the actual toilet. Like more than a few people in this country, even in a flat?

I am not sure I understand your question.

Opening car door without looking for cyclists.
Not keeping the air circulating in the house or flat and having damp towels and clothes sit and go musty. Open the window!
Ignoring children when they are asking interested questions
Leaving drinks and uneaten food in restaurants and pubs.
Ice skating.

Bathing everyday or sometimes more than once a day, what a waste of water

People who stop in the middle of aisle and stand back to check the shelves?
I do this because I just can't see if I stand up close, unless I take my glasses off (meaning I have to be a few inches away and that is even more wierd) or stand back in the middle of the isle so I can see clearly with glasses on.

@morondelaFrontera

"you really do need to step away from social media if it put you in such a state."

A state? I'm A ok. Fit bit says my heart rate is 58 - is that me being worked up and a state? When you have experienced family suicide - exhasperated or perhaps caused by this modern living need compare yourself to others given the need to share / boast / be the best - filtering every possible negative aspect, you would understand. But given you don't - lets leave it there. Go on sharing and hash tagging your life - Im sure you're not one of the annoying ones that only shares and hash tags the boasty positive shit hey. Night!

People who let dogs (or any animals) put their faces in theirs or anyone else’s. “Oh Fido is so soft, wouldn’t hurt a fly”. Until he does. Not saying every, or even most, dog would but ultimately they are an animal and nobody knows why they may turn.

People who don’t insure their cars and think it’s ok to just drive round not giving a damn. You are idiots. Same to those who drive after drinking alcohol or taking drugs.

People who judge each other for their parenting choices. I couldn’t give a shit whether someone breast feeds or formula feeds, co sleeps or doesn’t. Why do we all have to argue over who is right? If your baby is healthy and looked after then who’s business is it HOW you choose to look after them?!

People who ring the police for pointless reasons. There’s a car parked outside my house, not blocking my drive, but I don’t want it there 🙄

People who tell someone to ‘just stop trying’ and they’ll get pregnant. Or to ‘relax’. Ok then, that’ll totally cure infertility. Shall we tell diabetics to relax, too? How about cancer patients? Let’s just do away with all treatments and everyone just RELAX!!

fairweather the hoses do stretch. Maybe you can’t position your car properly but they certainly do . They have signs up in garage forecourts saying hoses reach both sides.
But if people like you want to queue then up all the quicker for people who can do it

I've also never been to a petrol station where the hoses don't stretch to both sides of the car.

And since this is a thread about things we don't get, what I don't get is people who queue up for a pump on a particular side of their car but then give me dirty looks for driving up to the empty pump and stretching the hose to the far side of my car. I'm not queue jumping, you chose not to use that pump, you had plenty of time to use it if you wanted to.

Oh dear, lord. Where to begin???

1. People who start posting on FB about having a really hard time/finding it a struggle to cope/shit happening in their lives blah blah but then when asked what's wrong... they say they don't want to divulge on social media. Not that I actually care, I mean obviously if they were a real friend as opposed to a fb one, I'd probably know more. But why are you bothering to post some cryptic message on fb, that is half opening up about something if you don't want to divulge exactly what IT is on social media???

And these posts are often in the midst of other "look at me" FB social bullcrap normally going on about how fulfilling their life is blahblahblah.

1. People who just post random stuff on FB about what they're doing. No one cares. Well, I don't, it appears some people do care but it's usually "omg love you're awesome xxxx"

1. FB, basically. Social media influencers. Why do I care what you got up to in this day of your life? You got up, you picked your kids up from school and made them dinner. Congratulations. But come to think of it if there were people who'd watch me get up in the morning and do stuff and get paid to do this stuff... maybe I'd do it too.

A note on the OPs shopping trolley thing... I know people who say they never take their shopping trolley back because.... drum roll.......

It provides a job for people who would otherwise be jobless because Asda has to pay people to go around collecting the trolleys and wheeling them around the car park.

Yep, they're just keeping people employed.

may aswell have something to do-its takes 2 seconds and it doesnt matter if youre in traffic you can still be run into @loveyou3000

"Graphista - people get lonely!" I understand that! but I don't see how being lonely is worse than being in a shit relationship.

I've experienced loneliness, I'd rather be lonely than with someone who doesn't like or respect me.

Any sort of gambling

fairweather I have to say, the hoses generally do reach both sides. I use people doing this to my advantage though, I don't need to join when there is a 4 car long queue for a hose on the 'correct' side, just zip in to the other one.

Doitdoit19 I hate the relax thing. After 4 years trying to conceive and fertility problems on both sides, it absolutely won't make any difference whatsoever to us conceiving. It's also really hurtful when you open up to someone about going through such a difficult, isolating and emotional time and it feels like your feelings are totally minimised by being told to relax and it will happen.
Or go on holiday/get drunk/forget about it for a bit. Or, even worse, maybe it's not meant to be. I've heard people be told that "perhaps they're just not meant to be mothers and that's why it's not happening." Horrendous. Also, doesn't really explain why parents who have drug habits that prevent them from being able to care for their babies keep having them, nor secondary infertility.

People just don't know what to say on the whole, but surely it doesn't take more than an oz of tact or common sense to realise none of these are appropriate responses? Close to my heart, this one is

"Leaving drinks and uneaten food in restaurants and pubs. "

This 'finish your plate' business is one of the reasons so many of us are overweight imo. If I'm full I absolutely will leave my food.

"I don’t buy what’s ‘in fashion’, don’t even know what’s in fashion."

Everyone buys what's in fashion whether they want to or not. You can only buy what's around in the shops. Police can determine when a historical murder victim was killed partly by clothes/fashion. It doesn't mean that all the murder victims were fashion victims.

I said myself that I don't particularly follow fashion, but even so, the clothes I own now are not the same as the ones that were around 20 years ago.

"People who just post random stuff on FB about what they're doing. No one cares. "

It's what FB is for though. When I see my friends in real life I ask them what they've been up to.

Leaving drinks and uneaten food in restaurants and pubs.

Of all the places where it's absolutely fine to leave food, restaurants is the one. Portions are made for the biggest eaters I am guessing, so are fare too big for most people.

When I have to order an adult plate for one of my kids because there's nothing eatable on the kids menu, they don't even manage to eat half, and that's fine!
I'd rather be offer the choice to get a small portion of an adult size, but many places don't do that.

If it's a buffet and people pile up their plate but leave most of it, then no.
Everything else is normal.