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?

I worked with someone who used to travel with her own bedsheets. I asked what she did if she was an away for more than a week and she said she just washed them in a laundromat. She would also use nearly a whole roll of loo roll and hover in a public (as in any toilet that wasn’t her own). First thing she does in hotel rooms is clean the whole room and bathroom.

I don't use the clock on the oven for anything so I just press the button that stops it from blinking when I switch it back on

Oh. I literally do that.

Hotel remotes are never cleaned properly, lots of studies have repeatedly shown so. I started doing it during the Swine Flu pandemic of 09 and never stopped. Makes no odds to me though whether you think that's weird. Whatever floats your boat, eh.

For me, it's the people who park right next to you in an otherwise empty car park/sit next to you in an otherwise empty cafe/on the seat directly beside you an otherwise empty bus or train.

For me, it's the people who park right next to you in an otherwise empty car park/sit next to you in an otherwise empty cafe/on the seat directly beside you an otherwise empty bus or train.
That's just safety in numbers

Yes, I do that.

This is my ‘weird things people do’ too!

I know several people who on paper are probably millionaires or close to it and all they go on about is shopping at Aldi, and how the air fryer saves them electricity and how they make sandwiches on a day trip because they don’t want to pay to eat out…

Does my head in.

Me too 🤣

My dear old Grandad used to take all the batteries out of his clocks when he went away, and pulled the pins out of his watches unless he was wearing them. He also punched lots of holes in the bottom of a pot noodle, rather than buy a watering can. He was otherwise very generous and kind, but he really watched those pennies and hated waste.

My microwave doesn't have a clock.

@Wendysfriend lol. She's not that bad. She does use the handle! Nah...she's 'armless 🤣

Mine doesn't either. I switch it off at the plug after every use.

I've always thought the UK practice of handwashing dishes in a basin in a sink to be a bit odd, when we have running water coming out of taps. I appreciate most people use dishwashers these days but I still get the basin in UK Air BnBs.

I think the plastic basin in the sink was to protect the plates from getting broken when sinks were made of that enamel.

I think it comes from the times when people had one tank of hot water to do for the whole day. They (like I do now, because I wash up in a kettle of hot water) didn't have limitless hot running water to wash dishes. Hot water was (is!) expensive, and washing dishes under running hot water is a luxury.

Not answering doorbells. Not answering phones if they cannot recognise the number and proud to tell everyone about it.

That makes sense, I guess. Looks ugly though. It is also the soaking dishes in the basin in soapy water and then barely rinsing them to put them on the drying rack with sudsy water still dripping down.

That may just be my MIL 😂

Cough up phlegm then spit it on the pavement

Maybe she means she cuts with the blunt side.

No reference to a post !

Wondering what you wipe ?? 😀

@Changingplace

I don't have a kitchen bin, my kitchen is too small for one, even a small one.

I hook a carrier bag over the door handle, then take it out to the communal bin when it's full.

It possibly is! During the wonderful 1970s, with all the strikes and powercuts we had limited energy. I remember we had to wash up in about an inch of tepid water, but then my Mum would boil up a kettle to pour over the sudsy plates. Happy days.

No, that is disgusting. There was a TV programme a while back where they tested make-up brushes and toothbrushes in bathrooms. They all had poo particles in them because the flush projects the poo and urine up to six feet! Happy with poo in your toothbrush? Put the seat down!

I worked in a hotel and now I wipe hotel remotes with an antibac wipe because of what I’ve seen 🤢

Re kettles

..THIS MAY BE TMI.....IN WHICH CASE I'D ADVISE NOT TO READ IT

When we were in sixth form at school
......we used the kettle in our lunch room every day....filling it up by the spout as we were too lazy to remove the lid.

Until one day someone opened the lid and there was a used tampon in it! I still rem the name of the girl who purportedly did this!

Since then I have never ever used a kettle in a hotel room.

Why would it?

How on earth do you hold your knife?