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?

I actually heard a theory about that. It would have been Radio 4 because that's the only station my car radio is tuned to.

It's something to do with humans being instinctively a collective species. I'm not phrasing that correctly- we are essentially pack animals.

My area has just gone over to food caddies. One week garden waste, recycling and food caddies are collected. Next week, general waste and food caddies. Several neighbours refuse to use the food caddy, which means their general waste bin will be minging by the time it’s collected.

Makes no sense.

Add to that. Run around shops supermarkets especially on scooters. Why?!

Wtf, because it's a bin. It gets minging by virtue of being a bin. Even recycling bins get minging and some people also dispose of things like nappies in their black bags. If you don't clean them regularly you're going to end up washing maggots out of them in the summertime.

Laziness.

People that comment on pregnant woman’s bodies and tell you that you’re looking really big or really small. “Wow, you’re getting so big!” “3 months left - more like 3 weeks!” “Twins, surely!” I don’t know how people have the nerve to say these things.

It’s a bit like walking into a room and saying wow Dave you’re looking massive today

I have no answer for the first one and it's a really good question, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's just odd. It doesn't really "hurt" anyone (minus the scraping), and it doesn't appear to benefit the person doing it. What is the thinking behind it?

The second one is just simply selfishness. They like the music. They don't GAF if others don't
Or, they believe others will think their music is cool.
One of those.

I agree but see my previous post as regards it's sometimes inadvisable to do this.
They're really harsh about recycling, too.

I like recycling but I get a bit envious when my friend who doesn't give a toss just chucks anything into black sacks without fear of reprisals.
Where I live a stray item in wrong place can get you a fine.

According to her, all plastics go to China or something.

Oh and don't get me started on how the council clowns just stuck 'wrong sort of rubbish' on a load of black sacks that had clearly been fly-tipped!!

Walk in-between parked cars with your head in you phone while pushing a pushchair

I am baffled by how much men drink, and how it’s socially accepted.

DP and our male friends are 20-30% bigger by mass than most of the women in our group but easily drink twice as much. Some much more than that. No one bats an eyelid.

I think there’s an element to it of men being more dispensable in society, so no one cares if they slowly kill themselves, but it still baffles me.

Try having a slight paunch in your early 40s. I wore tighter office clothes then and one woman asked if I was pregnant and got up to offed me her seat. I mean it was kind but I was not pregnant.

Whilst we are on the subject of neighbours, we have a couple at the end of our road who walk their dog three times a day around the block… and talk to everyone they see and I mean everyone. They must know everyone’s routine so they time it so they can talk to every single neighbour. They send Xmas cards to us all and find out our names. They’re probably late 50’s and still work and have a family but clearly love chatting to people. They talk non stop too. I now avoid them if possible! New people moved in over the road and I watched them pounce… it was so cringey! They stood chatting for about 40 minutes.

Maybe I’m mean and yes I am unsociable but it is definitely a bit creepy!

On the tube I mean.

What sort of estate or area? My area we all have vestibules (so two front doors); everyone leaves the front one either unlocked or fully open and all the delivery drivers/postmen all know to just put parcels inside.

No I disagree. You're obviously not getting bigger through over indulgence.
And it's just something to say.

I park my car on the road outside my house...
Why do my neighbours either side of me insist on putting their wheelie bins right up to my front and back bumpers every bloody week so that when I have to go on the school run, I have to move them both out of the way!!! They both have plenty of room to put them further along the path but no....

What time do you call vrack
of dawn?

I used to live in a house share, the owner lived there too (but all housemates rather than as landlord) and he used to mow the lawn in a Sunday morning as soon as it was light enough. I'd usually barely got to bed. He was a twat in so many ways. 30 going on a 100.

I’m old enough to remember when it was considered most unladylike for women to drink pints, but it seems quite accepted now! I couldn’t, I’d spend more time on the loo than in the bar.

Why do people not look where they're going. Both on foot and in cars..

Let their children sit in the main body of the supermarket trolley.
Let their children scoot in supermarkets/shopping centres
And regarding the above, whyndon't the store managers deal with it - they woukd have when mine were little.
Why don't cyclists stop at traffic lights

Vaping

In a similar vein to parking next to people in an empty car park, booking a seat in an almost empty cinema and someone sitting next to you

I was once in the cinema and there were 3 people including myself and someone decided to book the seat next to me

The trouble with these sort of people is you can't cross them. You have to play along. Otherwise they'll turn on you, slag you off to everyone on the street, report you to the council for having an out of control dandelion, tell social services you let your kids eat biscuits before dinner and spread a rumour on your local facebook group that you're growing weed in your attic.

They are like that because they want to feel liked and important. They say they are just friendly and welcoming but there's a big difference.

Probably Mumsnetters 🤣

You're probably parked in the best spot if you had your choice of spots, so they park as close as possible to the best spot. Also women are advised to park near others so they're less likely to get attacked in empty car parks.

Hmm I don’t know why people on Mumsnet make massive assumptions about people they don’t know?! Sounds like they are just being sociable and neighbourly! And I say that as someone who is quite shy!