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?

*hotel kettle, that should say!

That seems ridiculous. Cold water always on blood stains I was taught, and it works.

Wow this thread is an eye opener! I’ve never heard of most of these things.

I stay in hotels once a month with work, I’ve never bothered cleaning any of the surfaces and I walk barefoot on the carpet and use the remote with impunity.

I never wash meat (it’s actually more dangerous to do this), I wash vegetables but I’m very happy to pull a raw carrot out of the ground on my friend’s allotment and eat it after brushing it on my jeans 😄 there’s no taste like it!

I have one tea towel a day, it gets used for everything and then chucked in the machine. And yes, I sometimes wash my tea towels with my undies. Still alive.
Use public toilets and sit on the seat (my thigh muscles aren’t up to hovering!) and the only reason I put the lid down at home is because otherwise the cat drinks out of it.

I do wash my hands thoroughly (like we were taught to do in the pandemic) whenever I go to the loo and when I come in from being outside. Never had food poisoning, and I’m rarely ill.

You do know our bodies are made up of millions of bacteria?

putting milk in scrambled eggs - now that’s REALLY weird. As is repeatedly spamming a thread when it’s clear that hardly anyone agrees with you …

Because despite all your objective evidence my lived reality of decades of staying in hotels is that nothing you have suggested is anything other than needless worrying.

I don't think what you have said is "common sense"

I don't believe that either. I mean you might have seen it online, but I don't believe it happened.

My dad removes the labels from tins so they can be recycled, then writes the contents with black pen. All tins of course now look the same. Cat food, beans, peach slices etc. Obviously he prefers his own writing but pretending there is a need to recycle urgently makes me laugh as he keeps the tins for ages. He also keeps yoghurt cartons 'just in case' and does not recycle these so there are 100s (literally) yoghurt cartons stacked up in different shapes around the kitchen shelves. I cannot offer any explanation for this.

@WomanOfSteel oh god. So now I have to have 'bin mist' on the list of things to worry about.

I should’ve added above - I don’t use antibacterial wipes. Ever. Expensive, damaging to the environment and they won’t kill viruses.

I’m probably a lost cause anyway, as the cat walks on the worktop, sits on the hob and climbs into the sink to drink out of the tap. It’s a miracle I’m still here.

It’s a miracle I’m still here.

It's almost as though most of us have functioning immune systems, honed by 4 billion years of evolution.

Milk or cream in scrambled eggs is totally normal.

Even BBC Good Food suggests milk or cream.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/perfect-scrambled-eggs-recipe

(I don’t wash meat, do wash veggies for the pesticides, and am indifferent to how many tea and dish towels get used a day. Have never wiped down a hotel but do jettison the throw cushions and coverlet).

Re the scrambled eggs comments. I have never, in all my long life, added milk or butter to the whisked eggs.

My neighbour does exactly the same thing. Bonkers!

I add a bit of milk to scrambled eggs

Well that's just you. I've never not added a splash of milk or cream or creme fraiche and butter.

Yep, me too! Cannot bear a stranger doing this, and I’m always questioning their reasons in my head. I wonder if they would do this to my DP?

I serve the general public in my day job, and often encounter very odd behaviour, pointless ‘reasons’ to get close to me, touch me unnecessarily etc… No bloody way is it happening in my free time as well!
I always move.

@IttyBittyTittyCommittee @PerkyMintDeer I also ALWAYS move. My favourite is when I'm looked at like I am the crazy one. I used to feel self conscious about it. But now I'm like, "look, if you want to sit too close/yell into your phone/have youtube blasting I'm not going to feel bad about choosing to exit this situation."

I know someone like this too. They've recently bought a waste paper type bin which means the contents are open for all to see and smell.

The Pils unplug their TV and the aerial if there's a thunderstorm in case the aerial is hit by lightning. Seemed surprised that we don't do it, but our aerial is in our attic so wouldn't get hit (unless the roof blew off and then there would be other things to worry about) They then said theirs was too - but they still unplug it in a storm!

Boiling water won’t clean the residue left by eggs or pasta though? Yeah the water won’t have germs but it’ll have an oily gross residue in your drink ?

Oddly enough that's never happened to me.

🤣 Take a deep breath and count to 10. You’ll be reyt. She says it makes the bin smell. Forgot to add that bit.

The photos were definitely in a hotel, and they looked pretty darn real! People are disgusting. I worked in hospitality and in the 8 years I was there there were at least 15 incidents where guests had shit on the floor of a communal shower cubicle floor. Not by accident either.

For everyone obsessing about germs - a sentence that has entered family legend is 'DD1, please stop licking that chicken!'

My kids had pets hens and DD1 had a particular favourite. She used to lick its head. She is still with us, as are all the others, despite having been brought up, quite frankly, in utter squalor.

I have a friend that once went on a lads holiday and they’d taken a cocktail pitcher up to their room at the end of the night. He showed me a picture of what he did with it when he woke up the following morning for a laugh - a cocktail jug with a massive curly turd in it. 🤮 No he didn’t empty or clean it himself. He left it for the cleaner. I didn’t find it funny like he thought I would.

Cold water to remove blood, thought everyone knew that!