Really weird stuff people do that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

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Someone I know puts hotel TV remotes in plastic bags before using them, because she once heard a standup comedian talking about men wanking on them while watching porn.

WTAF?

What weird things do people you know do that make absolutely no sense at all? Anything as odd as that?

@XChrome do you actually know anyone who isn’t clinically vulnerable in some way who has become ill via hotel room skankiness? If you are vulnerable, fine. The overwhelming majority of people on this thread going on about it are not, I’d bet.

Pretty sure it isn't dangerous. Its just a timer🤣

They never turn the fridge off though do they?

I guarantee all these firefighters giving them advice don’t do it at home either.

People who have a picnic on a little grass verge in the middle of an ugly car park or next to a busy road. Why?

A dear late colleague used to bring a tin of vegetable soup to work for her lunch. She strained off the liquid to heat and eat and threw away the vegetables in the bin. I miss her and her quirks.

Exactly.

Apologies, I misunderstood.

As a person who frequently washes their hands (truth to be told, probably too often) I am of the opinion that many people don't wash their hands often enough. It never ceases to disgust amaze me the number of people who don't wash their hands after using the toilet (even after a number 2) or who come in from a shopping trip/day out etc and start handling food before washing their hands. I think that these are the same people that find it necessary to put the hotel room's TV remote control in a bag or to disinfect it before using it, because they have no intention of washing their hands any time soon. They are probably the same people who lay on their bed with their shoes on.

I have a friend who has a very elaborate towel and cloth system.

Certain coloured towels are for hands, some for the whole body, and some just for the bum area. She explained the colours to me once but it is too elaborate to remember.

She still talks about the time several years ago when my DD and her friend used the wrong coloured towel in the kitchen to dry their hands!

I never, ever worry about this or do this stuff. I'm perfectly healthy and extremely rarely ill.

I'd say your hygiene routines are excessively paranoid.

Nope. I'm still never going to do any of that.

Is she trying to get her step count up maybe?

I have just realised that I must be very weird! I have never drunk ‘squash’. Obviously I know shops sell it 😂 but I didn’t realise quite so many people drink it until I read this thread. I probably drink too much tea to fit in another liquid!

I still don't care.

“Lying sprawled out on the grass, or on a beach, on hot days. This quite literally serves no purpose. It is something that people only do because they have seen other people doing it”

…what?! I do it because it feels delightful to lie in the sunshine and feel the warmth on my skin. Obviously 😂

You're friends with my Mum.

And it's red for "privates" and there are designated areas (mid part/corners) for front and back.

And there's a coded cleaning cloth system too. You may have guessed already that it's red for the toilet area.

Dad's nearly been divorced and cleaners have lost their jobs for using the wrong towel in the kitchen to dry their hands. How can anyone not know it's pure white for hands and checked navy blue and white for dishes (and checked pale blue and white for pots and pans).

Did they live in Royston Vasey, and have twin daughters called Chloe and Radclyffe?

Person A to Person B;
"Don't you think your source might be biased?"

Person B provides other sources.

Person A; "I don't care."

😆

In most of the places I've lived, I can't even access the switch and plug of the cooker. Cooker and fridge stay on permanently.

@PerkyMintDeer I don’t know why but red for privates is really making me laugh😂 . I like my own towel and DH has his own but I do use my own towel indiscriminately all over my body. I am now thinking of the towel in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

This thread has made me realise I'm an absolute slattern because I use hotel remotes and kettles, don't wash my veg or my meat.

My weird thing is, on the first of every month I will stand outside the front door with a pinch of cinnamon and blow it into the house. I can't even remember where I heard the tradition but it's said to bring abundance and prosperity.

I've stayed in loads of hotels, never felt a need to clean them, used the kettles, remotes, towels and bed linen, and have never suffered any ill effects.

I'm not going to be lectured or shamed for that, thank you.

Milk? Double cream, butter and black pepper here. Not sure I could pass that thick gloop through a sieve though.

I haven’t RTFT but the comedian is Gina Yashere and she calls it “control condom”. She does hotel reviews on her Instagram when she is staying away from home.

She also does not like the exposed duvet covers. Can’t remember what she calls them.