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 go to gigs and then when the main act is on turn to their friends and start a conversation like they are in a middle of a pub. Drives me insane! Same with those who push in front of you and then hold up their iPad and start recording for ages. There's been more than one occasion I've said ' oi, tosser, move on!'

The sweet wrapper rustling does drive me insane at a cinema so I pick my venue and times carefully but l'll never understood why people can't go an hour and half or so without stuffing their faces with popcorn, pop and hot dogs.

MorondelaFrontera, I agree with you. There are some items of clothing (and definitely bedding) where you can absolutely tell that they haven't been ironed. I just don't believe that you can tell with absolutely everything and there must be some people who don't iron, but judiciously select their clothing and you can't tell at all. I don't think that I am one of those people, I hasten to add!

Some people don't want to sit upstairs on a bus because they don't feel safe enough. I've been on buses and people have been intimidated and threatened by youths or drunk people and 9/10 its upstairs.
Everyone needs to feel safe on the buses irrespective of age,gender, disability or not etc.

Keeping the cat litter tray in the kitchen.
Being obsessed with food/eating out.
Having no hobbies except watching TV.
Having 'lucky numbers' (e.g. child's birthday/milkman's house number/anniversary of the cat's graduation) for the lottery, thereby being locked into doing it every single week 'in case my numbers come up'.
Being obsessed with the royal family.
Having nothing but children's TV on for the entire time the children are awake.
Sportswear as street wear. Get dressed properly, people!
'Entertainment' at dinner parties, a la Come Dine With Me.
Struggling to park right outside a shop rather than park a little further away where there are plenty of spaces. (Unless there's a health or mobility issue, obviously.)
Partnered people refusing to go anywhere without their partners.
Saying 'holibobs'.

Big weddings the 2nd/3rd/etc time around and expecting everyone to tie themselves in knots to attend and give a gift. I see it on here sometimes, 'My mum's getting married, it's childfree and is miffed we can't spend the week in Thailand to go and see it,' and I'm thinking, 'Your mum needs to grow the fuck up and pull her head out her arse.'

IRL DH and I were invited to one for one of his former mates who was marrying his OW (he was her OM) and you'd have thought it was a royal wedding. We declined (no desire to watch two people make more vows when they shit all over the first set), didn't hand over a cash gift and the couple were all peeved that a lot of people didn't go or give a gift.

People who don't read. My sister doesn't read. She's never read a book. I just can't get my head around it. At. All.

Didn't include kids in the buying new clothes for holidays thing as every year they've grown out of stuff.
I think it's the advertising with adults cavorting on a beach with buy a new holiday wardrobe, nobody knows what you wore last year do why do you need a whole new set of clothes

Standing passively in line for the loos without checking that every cubicle is already in use. I often skip ahead and push the doors open for people to go in to get the queue moving. Why not check?

Getting off escalators and standing still. Why? How witless must you be to not work out there are people behind you who will pile up if you don't shuffle your arses two steps out of the way.

Standing passively in line for the loos without checking that every cubicle is already in use. I often skip ahead and push the doors open for people to go in to get the queue moving. Why not check?

This, yes!

I don't understand how non-disabled people can park in disabled parking bays. How can they be so uncaring or selfish?

People who can’t function without a takeaway coffee in their hand. Drives me bats when friends can’t get moving until this is achieved!

I don't understand how non-disabled people can park in disabled parking bays. How can they be so uncaring or selfish?

And also parent-and-child bays, when you see a lone adult park up and stroll out, for the sake of about 10m.

A row of 15 treadmills, I am on the end one, no one else there yet some berk comes and uses the one right next to me. I mean why do that? Like parking. I once parked in an almost empty supermarket car park (not near the entrance etc) and another berk parks right next to me. What is wrong with these people?

People who have loud conversations on their mobile phone in public and at the gym. STFU! No one wants to hear your business. Why do they do it?

Smokers at the station who ignore the no smoking signs and puff away. Stinks.

I am not going to watch football just because women are playing it. I couldn't care less about football full stop so stop trying to force it on me.

I don't get how people who don't iron don't realise they look a mess

I have very few clothes that need ironing and I never look a mess. Wash them, let them dry and they look perfectly acceptable with no creases or issues. I have made an art out of not choosing clothing that needs ironing to be fair

People who don't read. My sister doesn't read. She's never read a book. I just can't get my head around it. At. All.

Wasn't she forced to read books at school? We were. We had to read one and then writer a report on it for English class. Fully appreciate it might be different now though.

BLW, babies can't lead anything, they are babies and have no clue. As a childminder I've been given some, what I would consider dangerous foods for babies to eat.
People who let their children walk, run or play in cafes and restaurants. Make your child sit in a seat ffs. If a waiter or waitress drops something on them who are you going to blame?
People who are annoyed by people who don't want to drink. Why does it irritate them so much?
People who stop on the main road while I'm waiting at a junction and wave me out, then get annoyed if I don't see them the first time they flash or wave. Why? Oh and it always men who do this. Just stick to the rules of the road ffs!
Posting pictures on sm, why do you think people care?

Pedestrians who just step into the road without doing Stop, Look and Listen.

"Posting pictures on sm, why do you think people care?"

Because I have nice kind friends who like to hear my news and see how my kids have grown, just like I like to do likewise for them?

People who wash veg and then peel them and cook them...

Posting pictures on sm, why do you think people care?

Isn't that the entire point of SM? To share stuff with people who are supposed to like you.

Perhaps it should be going on SM when you don't like the people you have on it.

Eating at the cinema.

Phone zombies.
People who ignore "stand to the right" messages on escalators so you can't whizz past them to get your waiting train.
Ironing (all my clothes are non iron)
Cheap earphones so you can hear someone's (usually shit) music
Sniffing and snorting snot.
Dog shit
Collagen injections into the lips that make an already beautiful person into a caricature of themselves.
3 year old with a Sharpie type eyebrows.
Anyone sitting next to me on public transport.
Pavement meanderers.
People who leg it to walk in front of you then slow right down.

I agree about linen. I avoid it.
I don't understand why retired people choose to go to the supermarket at really busy times. One of the best things on mat leave was going shopping when the shops were quiet and surely that would be the same for retired people.

People who walk along the pavement holding child's hand or pushing buggy, just taking the whole width up and walking so so slowly without regard that anyone might want to pass, even when they've seen you are behind they don't move to the side, this I don't understand? It's just rude!

People who talk on their phone on quiet zone or opposite each other to have loud face to face conversation when seats besides are free so could chat quietly
Travellers putting on make up or bouncing legs like being in a vitamix with a bone elbow bounce elbow bounce !
People who video chat in congested shopping centres and zig zag like wombles so you can’t move round them while they’re chatting with Janice in her onesie rollers and half done eyebrows
People who shop in onesies
People who stop at ticket barriers and hunt for ticket as train pulls in or stops on the other side to sort self out and you can’t move forward and get stuck and have to see inspector as ticket now void as you couldn’t move through barrier
People who park large cars in motorbike spaces or the ones with trees or posts on so not true spaces then encroach into your space 2 inches from your door so you have to crawl through boot to get in with back injury or as I experience s some years ago stand in the summer shower with baby waiting for the flip flop wearing costa coffee carrying driver to stroll back to his massive car parked half in my space so I couldnt get baby in car seat - 50 yards away were loads of big spaces but suppose his flip flop gave him a blister if the extra 2 min walk was involved or god forbid his coffee lost its fluff
People who park in child space with no children
People who can’t drive their big cars
People who lean on their trolley and weave across aisles as if fuelled with snail juice
People who talk in phone while at till and. completely ignore cashiers
People who reach over your shoulder to flick throughout the clothes rail you are already flicking through (really!)

Parents parking on the zigzag lines outside school.

DD1 said loudly one day 'Oh dear, those people don't care abut the safety of children'

Also, people who eat food / drink drinks just because they're 'there', not because they actually fancy them.