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?

Why do some people moan about being ‘poor’ - they are low income - however she gets her nails done every other week, goes out to lunch and dinner regularly, subsidizes her adult child’s family, etc. I’m always the ‘lucky’ one but I don’t do these things. Yet God forbid if I say something like this I’d be rude!

They might have a waste disposal unit. That's why we don't use a caddy

Ah, but you see, they have paid their council tax and they are very busy... and they've already done the bin men a massive favour by abandoning putting it outside for them, rather than making them come inside and sort it all themselves or eat it all up with a teaspoon; because they have paid their council tax, and they are important, busy, decent upstanding pillars of the community who can't be expected to read a short online paragraph telling them what the simple rules are and who... did they mention... have paid their council tax, which 'should surely cover this kind of thing at that price'...

I once saw somebody in the next street who had put out their recycling bin with an entire manky old (unemptied) upright hoover sticking up proud out of the top, with the lid obviously not able to be closed. In fact, they did something similar almost every fortnight, be it a broken bulky toy, a bent clothes airer or whatever. I knew this, not because I am nosey and I specifically went looking, but because the lid of their bin was wide open every single time.

What gets me is the people who put an entire massive unflattened cardboard box in the bin - the same width and depth as the inside of the bin itself - and then start complaining that there's no room left for the rest of their recycling! It hasn't even occurred to them to put it in - whole if they really must - with the opening at the top, so that at least they haven't wasted three quarters of their bin with nothing but air!

I’m cleaning mine because it stinks of cat pee. Otherwise I agree with you!

whilst you think earings are attractive, i also think the simple metal hoop in my nose is attractive too. to me, it suits my face. im not sure how a tiny metal hoop makes me look pathetic nor hideous?
and honestly, if anyone judged me based on a bit of jewellry, theyre probably not my type of person

Presumably, they wouldn't know... but if you want your bin to be emptied and they start their rounds at 7am, it's not really that silly for them to need it ready before they come and not after they've already left.

I put my bin out early because emptying the bin is part of my regular morning chores when I do the kitchen etc. I have ADHD and I need a lot of systems to manage daily life that I know seem bonkers to others. I could have an alarm. But a thousand things can waylay you on the way to bin when your working memory is shot to hell. Doing it early is better than missing it and then I can stop remembering it.

My mothers OBSESSION with ‘finisihing off’ dry laundry on the radiators. Not drying it. It’s dry. She cannot define what ‘finishing off’ does to dry laundry, but it all MUST spend hours being rotated through a turn on the radiator to ‘finish off’ before it can be put away. Loopy. My mother is batshit anyway and I’ve long stopped questioning her looniness. It’s just drives me nuts when she stays here and I can’t actually dry wet laundry on the radiators because of her feckin’ dry laundry ‘finishing off’ on them all!!!!

instead of using the brakes, they cruise to a near-halt. Clearly, I am expected to be a mind-reader!

No, but you do need to be a road reader. If the vehicle in front of you is getting closer, take your foot off the excelerator, or touch your brakes. I was taught that if you keep braking it's a sign you're not reading the road properly.

If cars way ahead of me are breaking I'm off the gas straight away. I've got friends who only think of slowing down when the vehicle directly in front of them stops and it's a really stressful way to travel.

You're damn right about the litter though!

Mine is why, where I live (a village), people can’t smile and say hello when they pass? I’m sure most people used to. Now it’s an incredibly sullen silence. Some of the worst ones are 60+! After being blanked by people and feeling like a fool, I don’t bother any more.

Or just concentrate on the kids? What a lame excuse

i do this! Has to be spring water though!
our tap water tastes horrible to me, even when filtered. ive tried the ones that go under the sink, and the filter jugs. i just cant stand it, whereas i drink 2.5-3L a day when we have bottles.

Or arthritis?

Sainsburys deliver

It might have been said, but putting milk bottles in without squashing them seems very obviously dumb to me. 2 x 4 pints and the bin is full up... of air 🤔 It's laziness.

Tip (to those who didn't know): if you rinse them with hot water and then tread on them they stay flat.

I am talking about people standing in the middle of a small aisle bent over staring at shelves, blocking the entire aisle, which seems to be the fashion. Somehow people managed to shop without doing this for many decades.

How do you know

Push them 2 houses away.....theyvwoll soon get the idea!....or swap them around....now that would be funny

How do I know, what? I have been shopping in supermarkets for decades and have only noticed this happening in multiple aisles in the supermarket each time I go there in recent times.

In any case, my initial complaint and my main complaint is the lack of spatial awareness. If you need or want to stand X feet back in a narrow aisle to peer at goods and are aware of other humans you might scoot out of the way, for instance, as one approaches who may wish to pass.

I was referring to the 'many decades' part, to me that implies 100 years approx. Why not stop going

Everything is marketed. I don’t really care about advertising so much as researching reviews and the science of things.

It’s relaxing and calming and enjoyable for me.

When I wake up in the morning and my skin feels
soft and nourished I feel really beautiful.

That’s not a waste of time for me.

Many decades... Many periods of 10 years. For most people, that would mean, more than a score, or 20 years. 100 years is a century. For me, many decades probably involves longer than you have been alive.

It's like the reversing into shopping centre carparks. People didn't use to do this even a few years ago, and now, increasingly, it is seen as the done thing, the more sensible thing - when for many decades it was considered sensible to drive in and leave your boot available to load with groceries. People copy other people. People who can barely park driving forward are now taking multiple moves to get into the spot in reverse.

People's habits change, but much of it is by observing and copying.

People who invent drama where there is none because they just have to feel insulted or sad. The same people also tend to post sympathy baits online.

People who are unkind, consistently.

People who think their children can do no wrong. All children have flaws.

I live in the middle of know where you could say.

I'm baffled that adults (who are literate enough to write a decent length post with no other errors) doesn't know the word "nowhere", or similar fairly ordinary words. This isn't a typo or case of autocorrection.

This does not apply for those with dyslexia or other learning difficulties.

People who solely believe one persons side of a story, especially without any evidence. There are 3 sides to every story,…

people who stop dead in front of an escalator/ getting off the bus etc. like come on don’t be a selfish twat when you know there are people behind you.

men who get on near empty public transport and sit next to a female, unless there’s no other options why would you do this, it’s creepy as fuck and doesn’t paint you in a nice picture.

Well, some of us have diseases that cause immense pain and infertility.

And not everyone becomes “ fat and apple shaped “, nor is there anything wrong with those that do.