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!!

joyfullittlehippo How is dog poo under a bush in the countryside dangerous? I NEVER understand the bags of poo hanging from branches- completely baffling!

People who buy uncomfortable clothes and shoes and MUST take them off the minute they walk home. Why?

Women (it's usually women) who take off their shoes at weddings and parties. I understand if you are broke and borrow your mum's shoes, but when you went to the expense to buy a brand new pair to match your outfit but take them off after 1 hours, why? You look ridiculous bare feet, why don't you buy pretty shoes that actually fit?

I understand BLW but it's so much faff, I never bothered with it. Once kids start school, no one knows or care if they have been BF or bottle fed, BLW or fed puree.

I can't be doing with the school gate dawdling! Aargh! See someone you know and stop for a chat with them, along with your toddler, your buggy and your dog, while standing right in the gateway why why why? How can you not notice the queue of pissed off parents trying to squeeze out past you? We don't all have all day! Gah.

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

I don't think women do so much, but a man in a linen suit does have that effect. I quite like it though! I once sat next to Martin Bell at an industry do, his full night-in-the-cells look was quite hot.

category12 I park near the trolley sheds so I don't have to walk far to drop it off. I'm also lazy.

Because new shoes can pinch and be uncomfortable, MorondelaFrontera, they usually take breaking in, which they won't have had chance to do.

Folk that cause queues in out-of-town shopping centre car parks because they have to park near the door. You're going to spend 2 hours wandering in ever-decreasing circles round Debenhams - just walk the extra 50 metres to the door!

People who put a set amount of money's worth of petrol into the car, rather than just filling it till it's full.

yes this is me sorry. Filling up with petrol is so boring and annoying, I have to do something to entertain myself. I'm quite happy to hear it's really common! But I don't think it adds much time - not as much as the people a PP mentioned who spend 5 mins sitting in their car afterwords doing some mysterious routine.

Have we had people who open the supermarket freezer doors to choose their ice cream? For AGES, pondering on flavours. They’re glass doors, look through the flipping glass while you’re dithering, instead of making the freezer defrost and the doors mist up so nobody can see in.

Drivers - usually young and male - who do something to their car to make it sound like a tank and then race around the town

People - usually male - who have music on so loud in their car you can hear it in the next street.

People -usually male - who simply must be the first away at the traffic lights when there are two lanes. Milton Keynes is not fucking Silverstone.

Milton Keynes is not fucking Silverstone you'd think it was by the way people drive there,it's unbelievable!

Going on a diet and self tanning and generally going to lots of effort with your appearance in order to go on holiday - if going on holiday is that much stress, why do it? NB, no idea if anyone really does this or it's just magazine bullshit.

People who have a phone conversation on the toilet in a public bathroom. See it all the time at work. You can hear them peeing and chatting away, they flush the toilet and then walk out still on the phone. Thy then glare at you because you interrupted their conversation by putting the hand dryer on.

@BottomliePotts hahaha I thought it might just be me who thought the comment of keys at face height was bonkers. People in general are very strange 🙄 (but I do the seatbelt on while pulling away thing more often than not and I have no idea why).

People who go to the gym just to walk on the treadmill for an hour. Why?! It's a complete waste of money and isn't going to make you that much fitter.

Because new shoes can pinch and be uncomfortable

well yes, but why don't you break them?
I mean WHY do people need to buy a brand new outfit for every single wedding? Fair enough if you are the bride and don't rewear the same dress at every wedding, mother of the bride and it's a special day, but as a guest? no one care or notice anyway.

Why do people buy new shoes for the kids in September as a rule?
If they need them, fine but they only have 6 weeks off. Why don't they buy new shoes when they need a bigger size?

Vapers who think everyone wants to walk through a cloud of fruit at every entrance.

People who stand and chat in the supermarket with trolleys held at arms length taking up the whole aisle.

Drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts, usually resulting in me stopping for them only for them to turn left. There's a ton of mini roundabouts near me and this happens all the time

People who go to the gym just to walk on the treadmill for an hour.
may be recovering from something
may be the first step to do something
may be getting used to the gym

Anyone who does any exercise gets my vote!

Drivers who don't indicate, at least when there are no other cars. Do you think pedestrians are mind readers? Idiots.

well yes, but why don't you break them?
I mean WHY do people need to buy a brand new outfit for every single wedding? Fair enough if you are the bride and don't rewear the same dress at every wedding, mother of the bride and it's a special day, but as a guest? no one care or notice anyway.

I don't always think it's about new shoes but more about wearing shoes you're not used to. I wear the same pair of heels to every formal event I attend, but that is literally the only time in wear heels so they do hurt after a bit. I'm transitioning to fancy flats so this won't be a problem.

People who litter and especially men who piss into large plastic bottles and leave them on verges. I would like to see substantial fines enforced for littering.

WHY?

Why do you book such a nightmare place? Why is your idea of a holiday having to stress about a sun bed, get up at dawn and fight to the death to plonk your towel?
I don't get it. How little do you do the rest of the year if you can be bothered with that?

A guy I worked with drove into a post box while doing the seatbelt thing. 🤣🤣

Shoes at the beginning of school term, I think is a hangover from when cheap kids shoes weren't really available.

You'd buy a set of shiny school shoes for the demands of uniform: they cost you a bundle, you buy just before the term starts so they don't outgrow them over the holidays, you hope to fuck they last til the end of the year.

Adults who like Disney. This includes films, merch and trips to Disneyland/world.
Each to their own of course, but I don't get the attraction.

@Mamalicious16 @Stravapalava OMG yes. I commute 30 miles on mostly A roads and this happens to me on average 3 times a week. Usually there's nothing close behind me either, and I have to really brake quite hard. About 50% of the time they then proceed to do 45 mph on the long, straight, single carriageway 60mph limit road. Drives me mad!! I'd be interested to know what you both drive - I am in a small, dark grey Japanese hatchback and I think people expect me to be a slow old biddy, or they just don't see my car because it's quite nondescript. My mum said it happens to her a lot less often now she's gone from a dark blue hatchback to a white SUV