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?

Yep. I would've got a fine too had I done it again.
It's actually made me a bit paranoid about the bins now.
Not before 6pm anymore!! Dh will say, 'can I take the rubbish out?' at 5.59 pm and I'll be like, 'No!!!'
They used to go through black sacks at the tip, too.
I think they have stopped this now, though.

I panic I won’t be able to get out the door so I do this too

Oh give over! I have gay friends that cringe at 'Pride'. They just want to get on with their lives like any other heterosexual couple and don't think they need a celebration to validate themselves.

People who have their speaker on their phone whilst making a phone call in public. I can’t stand it. I was recently in hospital trying to recover from quite major surgery and the other women in my bay were on loud speaker whilst on the phone. It drove me insane. I don’t want to hear other people’s phone conversations.

I imagine it's a way of remembering them like visiting the grave.

Omg it's you! You're the reason I wait and end up abandoning the wait at the loos at work and end up going to find them on a different floor! Well that explains why I can't hear you peeing.

I now live in a civilised place where general waste is collected twice a week, but when I lived in a flat with no balcony and general waste was once a FORTNIGHT, the thought of missing the collection was a huge stress.

Yes, it's the same around here. Bit of sun everyone's got a dog and nowhere to be seen on rainy days. It makes for a better walk when it's raining, no distractions for puppy training 😂.

Surely it's just like any vanity thing that's not practical e.g. high heels. Your second point seems like a plus though and I suppose impractical clothing was a sign of status in the old days.

No its not the same ?
dave is fat and doesn't like it

she is pregnant and hopefully happy , getting bigger is a good healthy thing , still need to be careful how you phrase i usually say. “ babys growing! “

Why do people not reverse park in supermarket carparks and on driveways ? So much safer for children walking past driveways if cars are not reversing out.

That seems rather thoughtless - some poor person is going to have to go and find another loo!

I live on a road just around the corner from a shopping centre. My neighbour and I live in semi-detached houses. In front of our houses is enough space for both of us to park our cars (both decent sized cars).

Quite often there will be visitors to the shopping centre parked in front of our houses. No problem, it's a public road, we don't own the spaces.

Occasionally though you get the special ones who somehow have not noticed that you can park two cars there so they will park across both spaces. When I get to be in charge those people will lose their licence 😡

I keep seeing women with heavily tattooed faces and throats. They aren't even attractive tattoos. One woman I saw the other day (a white woman) had her entire neck and throat tattooed in solid black, right up under her chin, and one of her arms also in solid black, from elbow to wrist. No pattern, no colour, no artistic element to it at all. She just looked like she'd been sharpied in her sleep. Asbolutely minging.

I didn't say the cashier was a woman.....

Having twins is extra work, but it's not a negative for everyone.

I put my bins out Monday morning for Tuesday 🫣 I used to leave them for the other adults in the house to do, I’m in poor health, but then they’d forget. So my Monday morning routine is sort kitchen out , washing on, meal prep, bins out, milk bottles out. Also the week it’s garden waste I get some of the garden sorted out as well.

After all of that each Monday I’m in a lot of pain so sometimes can’t physically stand or walk later in the day, struggle to even get my milk in. So it’s possible they have a similar health issue? …..I hope I’m not your annoying neighbour!

Saying they hardly have an appetite and rarely eat - even sharing meals in pubs for example… but then are always tucking into seconds at people’s houses. Love cakes and puddings. Doesn’t add up - it’s like competitive frugality?! The people I know doing this are well off financially too.

If I'm out for milk for my morning tea in the weekend, then yes it's because I've just got up. If I'd dragged some jeans on, it would be the same.

Because they spend the weekdays looking after the grandchildren 🥳

Yes, I also wonder at this. I can't imagine looking forward to becoming fat and apple shaped and having a higher risk for heart disease, osteoporosis and so many other things. I'm dreading it.

In regards to bin cleaning, I pay a company to clean my bin once a month, I have contamination OCD and it helps me have a sense of control if I know it's getting cleaned even if that's once a month.. I also have a toddler who is still in nappies and black bin bags and nappy sacks do very little to contain the smell of rotting food/feaces etc plus most of my neighbours bins get infested with maggots when summer comes and then everyone else is stuck dealing with them as theres so many flies. In fact majority of my street have now taken on the services of the bin cleaning company to try to stop it.

@ThatLilacTiger Recycling is meant to be fully washed before it goes into the wheelie bin so the recycling bin at least, should always be clean

So I’m just saying I don’t see your logic,
as there is no difference with regard to ease of putting in the food caddy or the bin, so why not use the food caddy. Previously our main bin was collected weekly but now we have food caddy it’s fortnightly for bin and weekly for food caddy, so the main bin is more likely to be manky now as it’s not collected so often.

I’ve seen this where people leave a 1 star review of a recipe - but then add that they substituted mud for flour, salt for sugar yet can’t understand why it tasted rubbish 🤣🤣