Things people do that just baffle you

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What does either a specific person in your life, or just the general public do, you just don't understand why they do it, and you either can't ask them or you've tried to ask them and they can't tell you?

Write it here and maybe someone else that also does it can tell you why, or has an idea as to why.

Here are mine:

Why do my neighbours across the street bring their bins outside a full 24hrs early? They are retired, home most of the day, go in and out of their house five or six times during that 24hr period, but bring their bins out early Monday morning when they don't get picked up until Tuesday morning?

Why do people talk on their phones on speakerphone in public, what is the purpose?

Bus lane for buses only between 7.30am - 9.30am with a clear sign saying so, yet all day people queue up in the other lane, just WHY?

Oh I could do a very very long list for this one.

• people, like my parents and the people buying our house, who instead of paying for a professional, someone qualified with references go for the cheapest possible quote and then whinge constantly and want sympathy when they get a shit service. And they do this over and over and over and over and over again.
• people who blame their childrens appalling behaviour on something ending in D, because hey it must be a disorder. It cant be the fact that they ignore their kids 24 hours a day, dont discipline them, dont instill boundaries etc. No it has to be some disorder. Cant possibly be down to them and their appalling parenting.
• people who try to defend the indefensible. they know they are in the wrong, you know they are, everyone does, but they persist in ever more ridiculous excuses.
• people who are ALWAYS late. get a fucking clock. use the alarm on your phone. plan out your journey. sort it out.
• people who put their bag on the chair next to them on a crowded train then huff when you ask them to move it so you can actually sit down.

I could go on.....

This baffles me too. There's someone in my village who does this a lot. She tends to organise rather niche events (eg guest speaker on something very specific), complain on social media about lack of other volunteers to help run it, complain again about lack of ticket sales, then after the event post a passive-aggressive message thanking 'the 5 people who bothered to come along to support this wonderful event'. I really can't see what she gets out of it.

OMG my pet hate!! So arrogant, especially with plenty of other spaces

This! I literally can not understand why you would bag the poo just to drop it!!!

I can't say I'd notice when my neighbours put their bins out. Maybe they're forgetful and just want it done out of the way. I'm about to put mine out ready for tomorrow. Maybe I'm getting old.

Regarding the phone, I put it on speaker just to minimise the microwaves.

But why? You are presumably carrying keys, a lead a phone etc or do you leave all your belongings in a little pile to collect on your way back? Just carry the poo to a bin whether that is 10mins or an hour doesn't matter it is yours to carry until you can dispose of it.

“Let their children sit in the main body of the supermarket trolley”
In what possible way is this baffling? Too big for the small seat, keeping them out of YOUR way, helping me pack the bags on the way round, keeping them together, getting me through the shop faster!

Now @GertrudePerkinsPaperyThingI can understand this as my DH (not divorced and our kids were primary aged) almost did this. It was to be the chairman of his firm, the ultimate goal of his career, and the post required that he live in the US but travel for about three weeks a month. So no real point us uprooting to go with him as he’d still be away 70% of the time, and us away from our friends and their school - and a different school system at that. But it was for four years and it would have set us up financially for life, and we could go visit during the long holidays. So it was a sacrifice we were willing to make.
Im always baffled why whole families (both parents and several kids) go food shopping on a weekend as if it’s a fun day out. Then proceed to block the aisles totally oblivious to anyone trying to get by.

People who drive massive cars when they clearly do not have the skills to handle them or park them so dither in carparks holding everyone up. Just get a Fiat 500!

My Wife butters bread with a spoon. She says it's easier.
DD turns a light on to leave a room. This one infuriates me, I'm constantly telling her "Turn that light back out!" Doesn't matter if it's day or night, she'll turn the light on as she leaves.
DSS bundles himself up in winter PJ's, grabs his winter duvet, then wakes up sweating and puts his fan on whilst still bundled up.

My next door neighbour has a dog who constantly jumps the gate and goes on the run. We'll see her chasing him around and eventually bringing him home.
Within a couple of hours he's back out on his own in the garden and she never blocks the gate or replaces it.

They might park close to another car to reduce the chance of their catalytic converter being taken. We certainly try to park between 2 other cars in London.

My dad puts his bins out early AM the day before collection - he just can’t relax when he knows he has a job to do! He would literally be on edge all day about worrying about taking them out. He really fixates on little things like this so just easier to let him do it!

I think it's more prosaic than that. People can't park between the lines. They can line up next to another car and about 3ft away.

I have friends who have fallen on tough times and have very little income in the last 2 years. They insist that they and their dc (14 and 17) must have the latest iPhones. These are uni educated people. The rest of our friendship group is just baffled (as we sit there with our refurbished/old phones that seem to work well).

After night of the living maggots climbing out of the fucker, I'm inclined to disagree
You bin gets grubby, bin bags are not waterproof. You may live on a diet of dried food or whatever but not everyone does.

women who have no maternal instinct and don’t like kids, why do they have children? It baffles me! And causes generational trauma that could so easily be avoided.

It isn't safe they aren't designed to hold big kids and could tip over. It's not baffling so much as a bit stupid tbh.

Wear beige or brown nylon bum crack gym leggings. For the love of God just why?

But you are being really selfish. Other people do not want to look at this when they are going out for a walk.

My bafflement is the number of English people who obsess about a 'full English' breakfast when they are on holiday. I get that in on a cold, wet British weekend this is a bit of a treat- something most people don't have time for every day and it's warm and comforting. I also get that some people are only happy with familiar foods, and that's fine. But I really can't understand why so many English people seek out a Full English with 'proper heinz beans' on a hot day in a warm country with loads of lovely local options to try.

I'm currently looking at Trip Advisor reviews to choose a family holiday and there are so many mentions of whether the hotel does a decent full english, or recommendations for places nearby that sell one. On my last cheap and cheerful break we were in a lovely hotel with breakfast included in the price. There were hot options included but not Full English. Loads of the English guests didn't bother with the included breakfast and went down the road to a bar for their Full English every morning. It's obviously no detriment to me (in fact the opposite- more spare tables for us) but I just can't understand why this is such a big thing for so many people.

Because your lovely neighbours have been lying on the sofa procrastinating going to bed because they CBA to put out the bins or they were in bed, just nodding off, and then realised they'd forgotten to put out the sodding bins.

100% these things.

I have a friend who simply has to have whatever I have. She worked out which perfume I wear and bought it, she bought the same car, bought the same garden furniture, bought the same sofa....I could go on and on. We went out as a group for lunch and her first words to me were 'your outfit is nice, where did you buy it' I stupidly told her and she went on her phone in the restaurant while we were all ordering drinks and bloody well bought it.
I have really distanced myself from her now as it gets right on my wick. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery but its not, its just bloody irritating.
I dont understand at all why she does it because I am really not all that.

'Full English breakfast' just a fat riddled heart attack on a plate. Usually consumed eagerly by middle aged pot bellied blokes 🤢.