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 have no idea that they have a massive amount of influence over the way they age - despite this information being readily available.

So your habits could change

No, not in this way, because I don't blindly follow the herd. I am also a spatially aware person. HTH.

Yes, we call this 'car park syndrome' - I always try to park in a fully empty area, (even though, oh no, we may have to walk 2 minutes more to the shop) - and come back to find a car each side of mine, even though there are plenty of empty spaces, even nearer to the entrance...🤔

So if the herd is doing something you don't like you could change how you do things

When I’m old I’ll have earned the right to huff and puff at the check out😉

Yes!!!! Exactly that 👏

Well, I'm not going to start reversing into carpark spots, for starters.

Going to the supermarket sounds stressful

I adore this.

I might know the answer to this, it's also one of my pet hates. Someone once confessed to me that they do this and it's because they need a point of reference to park their car within the space, need the other car to line up theirs against if that makes sense. Shouldn't be driving if you can't gauge where the outside dimensions of your car are but hey !

We are on a thread called "things that people do that just baffle you", so I am posting about things I find baffling.

I bring my own bag and putting it on the shelf means I’ve got to call an attendant. Which is just a royal pain.

If you simply pick it up and put it back down again it should recognise it's just a bag. Sainsbury's staff member taught me that and it works.

I mentioned this earlier, but it's lost in the 37 pages now.

People who seem to take absolute delight in being diagnosed with something new. If I've ever been diagnosed with anything, I've been either upset or bewildered. I wouldn't be telling all and sundry straight away, that the doctor said this and that!

People who put a price on everything.
Me - Oh I like your shoes, they're nice.
Them - Yes, thank you, they were £90.
Them - Would you like this dress, I don't wear it any more and it would only go to charity?
Me - Really? Oh that's lovely, are you sure?
Them - Yes, it cost me £150 did that.
It drives me mad. I have a good friend that does both the above! Don't get me wrong, I do that if I've bagged myself a bargain and I'm chuffed about my saving. But I don't do it with normal stuff!

This is just for fun but it baffles me slightly when people use so many kitchen utensils and accessories to cook a simple dish.

This bowl, the other knife, snippy snippy kitchen scissors, dab dab paper towel, measure seasonings with special spoon, new pan, flatten with a spatula, where are my tongs?

Lid on. Lid off.

Drain, drain, fatty fatty. Put the thing back in again. Onion/garlic wooden spoon deployed.

Grate, grate, sprinkle, sprinkle, jiggle with the fish slice. Olive oil instead of other fat now blocking up sink.

Nine hours later:

Omelette.

It baffles me, working in retail
A)how.many people dont carry their actual bank card with them
And
B)how.many people do not know their own PIN number! (Pro tip, if you go on your banking app most will actually show it!)

I think possibly in part cos a large number of people (especially younger!) rely on contactless payments so much they forget they may occasionally need to put in their actual card and PIN.

But that said I am very old by their standards and in my first ever retail job we still did the whole "sign for you card payment" thing 😭

When an MN poster starts a thread making some more or less verified assertion, maybe a link about a particular social trend, an utter tsunami of entirely personal anecdata that apparently refutes the OP's assertion follows. Every, every time.

Being an oldie, I still do chip and PIN for greater security. Retailers have mentioned to me that it's always older people who set their cards in this way. My DD rolls her eyes when she sees me do it.
For a start, it makes me remember my various PINs. For related reasons I've never paid utility bills by direct debit because I want to always be familiar with my bank's way of operating online, the various PINS, and the rising sodding bills.

Having nearly reached the age of seventy virtually everything orher people do baffles me.

Bins - my general collection (under my bedroom window, so I’m sure) 0400-0415 unless the team have been redeployed for gritting.
Therefore out the night before.

Why does a family of 4 need to be in a supermarket together - usually letting their kids run riot?

People who believe any old drivel posted on social media ‘Muslims in local park killed and are a swan’ followed by 100 condemnatory comments and not a single person checking it out.

Ate a swan!

But that said I am very old by their standards and in my first ever retail job we still did the whole "sign for you card payment" thing 😭

Did you ever have to use those manual machines with a handle thing that you had to pass forcefully over the card and back again (sometimes twice) to get an impression of the card number on a carbon sheet? They were horrible; always sounded like a cat in a lot of pain!