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?

dobt you have to get a staff member to approve the weight of the bags first? I can’t be arsed with that.

Apparently according to a show I watched this comes from a fear of being wrong or getting an answer that other people didn’t pick. It is not about not knowing or having no idea it is about not wanting to be different to others and standing out.

Everybody should have the freedom to go to busy places when they want, but sometimes it just makes sense to go at a less busy time if you're able to and most are not.

I work very flexibly from home, so I always specifically avoid going to the tip at weekends and bank holidays - so that I don't end up having to sit in a queue for ages, when it's usually straight in and out if you go on a Tuesday morning; and thus make the waiting time even longer for those who can't go at any other time. It seems to me like a win for everybody.

Hmm, interesting... but I'm not quite sure I get that (it's probably me). If you're scared of being wrong, why wouldn't you give the stinking obvious answer that everybody else will have picked too?

Even it had been a trick question and Londinium had in fact been the Roman name for the city that we now know as Glasgow, virtually everybody else would still have given the (wrong) answer of London, so you would hardly stand out from the crowd.

I have a bin cleaner who charges £2:50 a fortnight. Money well spent after twice finding maggots in the bin after hot weather. Saves me a job .

This is one of my favourite things to do.
I find it so relaxing with the heating and radio on, and just being isolated and in peace.

It really frustrates me when other drivers stop to give way when they don't need to. There's a tricky crossroads near us and people will often flash people through when it's their right of way. I understand that it's well intentioned but there are always other cars forced to stop, no one knows why they're doing it, and I worry that if I move off then no one else will understand why I have and might drive into me!
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I love skin care.
I light a candle at night and wash my face and put on my skincare.
I love the routine of it.
I love that no matter where I am in the world I am I can have this routine to ground me.
It doesn’t take long and it’s an easy way for me to feel pampered.

Parking is a skill included in driving, and part of standard driving tests. People that incapable of parking in a straight line in an empty area should not be driving.

I hate this too. I think a lot of people do it without thinking because we’re herd animals.

These aren’t really people, they’re actually cats in human disguise!

Drop litter.

I am guilty of putting my bins out the day before! This is mainly because I live near the bottom of a dead-end lane, and when I'm in work, I'm the first person up on the lane. I do not think my neighbours would appreciate me rattling up the pot-holed lane before dawn once a week, every week! Instead, I just take it up the lane as I walk past where we put them on my way back to work after lunch. That way, I'm not having to walk up the lane just to put my bins out after I come home.

I am baffled about the amount of people who do not use indicators, or instead of using the brakes, they cruise to a near-halt. Clearly, I am expected to be a mind-reader! Also, shopping at busy times. It is so stressful and the queues are enormous!

Oh, and why my NDN's dogs bark at nothing. Then, when they do see someone/something, the barking ramps up to a feverish pitch, and this can go on for an hour at a time.

Edited to add litterbugs. We live in the countryside, and that's going to end up in a field/in a curious animal's digestive system... which can kill them. Please pick it up and either take it home with you, or put it in the nearest bin!

Yes my pensioner dad who I live next door to is obsessed with bin day 🤣🤦‍♀️
in fairness it means I never forget

Tell me you live in a hoa without telling me lol

I would absolutely move if someone politely asked me, but particularly on trains, a table seat is far superior. Why shouldn't I be allowed to use it on the of chance that someone might come along and have a greater need? By that logic, families like mine of 5 where we could sit the kids slightly apart should also never use a table just in case, or two seats together, just in case.

I live in the middle of know where you could say. I have 2 neighbours sort of on one side of me and one neighbour a 20mins walk on the other side of me and everyone else is quite spread out on larger properties. My property is fully fenced and when we bought the house it didnt come with keys. We have changed the door and handles since but still dont have keys, so we dont lock our house when we leave. No one actually where I live in a farming valley, locks their doors, its pure trust around here, but most of us do have guard dogs who protect our land and farm animals from predators and possibly any tourist who get lost and might wonder onto private properties. No one out here is interested in stealing from someone else or going through each others houses. We live too far out for people to come and randomly steal from us. If we lived in suburbia I probably would definitely lock doors.

Sorry. This show was talking about when people are reluctant to give any answer.

I have a friend who isnt the greatest mum, she puts her kids in harms way and worries more about what she needs and wants. The last straw was when she rocked up with her 7 month old baby in a forward facing position in the car seat. Her excuse was she doesnt like laying down in her seat. Even though I stressed at her how unsafe it is, she still hasnt turned her back around and now she is 10month old so still to young to be forward facing in a car seat. This is her fifth child and still hasnt managed to learn the basics or raising children. Why do people keep having kids when they dont look after them properly or have no interest in raising them.

My neighbours pay a gardener to tend their small garden. They have just taken on an allotment. I’m completely baffled.

Sorry if you’ve had loads of responses, I’m only part way through the thread. But I don’t lock my front door during the day - more than that, I actually leave it stood wide open to let the air in during the summer.

One of my neighbours had a walk in thief, who walked in through her unlocked front door.

I’ve never cleaned my outside bins. I live in a very hot (in summer) part of Sydney, never had maggots or the like. It might smell a bit whiffy in high summer when it’s time to be put out but everything is in bags so nothing leaks out.

As for things that baffle me, I am intrigued by human behaviour so I’m often puzzling over something or other that people do. I find it fascinating. Sometimes it’s just a personal quirk of someone’s, other times it might be something more annoying

My elderly neighbour keeps saying she is going to move house, she says this and then does nothing about it several times a year. She does get her house valued at least twice a year and then complains that the estate agent won’t leave her alone 🤷‍♀️

I've only seen supportive posts. Are the unpleasant ones you've seen to do with just infertility or also surrogacy? Being unpleasant is always wrong but it's not horrible necessarily to disagree with surrogacy.

Why do people take dogs on crowded public transport?
I went to Hadestown today & had a lovely time, also a nice bus ride there...but this lady on the bus had a spaniel who wailed (literally, it sounded like a baby wailing) throughout the ride. The poor dog was obviously unhappy on the hot, juddering, crowded bus. Why bring him? I know a dog sitter may be hard to find but if it's distressing your dog (as well as being non-ideal for others) isn't leaving them at home better?