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?

People who say they love animals but eat them.

It's not the same because fatness is negative in our culture whereas being big in pregnancy isn't.

As has ours, and it’s chaos. Tiny bins rolling down the road in the wind. At least unlike the recycling they are locked shut.
I can’t use my garden bin for ‘animal waste’. I asked if this included guinea pig bedding, wet soiled hay, which is all just grass, ie: garden waste. No I couldn’t.
Why? My boys have done half the job of composting for them!

So my landfill bin is always to capacity every fortnight.
We went on a break , leaving the bin in the same place we always do for the last 38 years, only to discover on our return it was missed. The advice was to email the missed collection, except it’s impossible to do so after 48 hours. Go to the office to explain, advice to email…..sent cctv footage and complained to our councillor (who laughed when we asked if they were employing the blind, bin man walking past in thick sunglasses).
She did managed to get it emptied though! 8 days late by the same sunglasses bin man, who said I should have a garden bin for the hay 😩

My bin gets covered in maggots occasionally so I use a large bag in my wheelie bin and clean it out when needed. So sometimes you have to.

But if you're carrying one and people are always saying how huge you are, oh there must be twins in etc that ISN'T positive, it's rude and it can be worrying. One reason for being so large can be extra fluid which can be caused by quite a few bad things. Similarly telling someone how small their bump is can worry them about of baby is big enough.

I don’t understand why people pick up their dog’s shit and put it in a bag, then hang it on a tree or a bush. Particularly when there’s a dog shit bin right next to the tree or bush.

And if there isn't, why don't they just take it home? If they're going to hang it off a tree, then why bother picking it up in the first place?!

Today in the general public people trying to push past in the supermarket when they can clearly see you’re selecting products - like they and their shop are so much more important

right, so why would the outside bin be stinky and manky then?

Prior to getting a food caddy was your bin revolting and smelly all the time?

I mean, I wouldnt want to get inside my large outside bin but its not manky and stinky

If my inside bin has stinky food in it like fish remnants I immediately bag it up and put it outside so you dont need a food caddy to do that!!

It's what they've always known and it's comfortable for them.
I try to be clean and tidy these days and the place is quite minimalist, but I've noticed I feel quite cosy in a cluttered place even if that's harder to keep clean.

This! The are usually dressed in lycra and therefore far too up themselves to use a cycle path and then ride in the middle of the road so you cant pass them in your car!

Someone kindly picked up their dog shit, bagged it and chucked the bag outside my front door

The James Van Der Beek thread was particularly bad. The first reply was a jokesy jokes “Who He?” yes because the death of a relatively young father of six is perfect joke material, talk about sensitivity

Did they think it was from your dog, @AwesomeChampagne, and you hadn’t picked it up? That’s the only, even vaguely, rational explanation for that. Or they could just be filthy buggers.

Oh, I do this. I unlock the front door in the morning the day before and put the bin out, then I try and go back out later that day and throw out the last of my rubbish. That way, if I somehow forget to go back out then it’s already out there with most of the rubbish in. I’m not usually looking at my phone in the evening as I’ve got a 6mo little one so reminders wouldn’t help me. I’m also famously scatty so I’ve forgotten to put it out many times. By putting it out first thing, I minimise the impact of my idiocy 😂

My neighbours who don't sort their recycling into the correct boxes/bags and just put any old rubbish in each container! Do they really think it doesn't matter?
And they seem oblivious as to how leaving it uncovered means it all blows across the street.

Or film it on a mobile? I don’t think anyone has watched the entire thing on their mobile

I’m sure that our council has a silly ‘ rule’ that bins have to be put out by 7am or something! I mean , how would they know ? 😆 🙄
DS 2 lives in a flat and their set up for bins and recycling is very complex ! I don’t think everyone follows the rules there to the letter though.

"I don’t understand why people have no shame going to the supermarket in their PJs. I saw this just yesterday and it’s just such an awful look."

Maybe they don't care what you think is an awful look.
When I had a long (to the floor) coat I used to put it over my PJs to to go the corner shop for milk for my morning tea if I was out of milk. Nobody could see my PJs, but so what if they did really.

Because it looks dirty, like you have just got out of bed and gone out within a shower. If you are happy for people to think that then crack on.

They probably went at the same time you did?

People who drive into Tesco local or similar with 10 or so car spaces and send a passenger in while they block the entrance, leave their car running even though there are free spaces and it would take 10 seconds to park properly. Ditto people who leave their car running outside residential areas/schools for no apparent reason.

i don't understand why people park in disabled bays when they don't have a blue badge.

But my real bafflement is why grown adults feel the need to belittle and ridicule other peoples hobbies, fashion, and tastes...

Are they not friends of friends or a friend's partner that they just can't get out of spending time with?

To answer yours, probably that feeling that they've got ahead on something! Ticked off their to do list. I don't mind the early ones as I can follow their lead on what bin it is 😂

Hmm what baffles me.. not much anymore 😂 but this whole "need to rush home", whether that is somebody speeding in a car or more specifically if children are in a park playing together and then the parents rush them back home.. like for what reason exactly? I guess I would rather my child have the opportunity to play with someone longer even if it means putting dinner on a bit later! It just saddens me splitting up playtime/social time when I can't see a good reason for it!