Things people do that just baffle you

[Whatexcellentboiledpotatoes]

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?

It’s always retired people too, in my experience. Could do it any day. Any time. But no 🤔

Oh yeah, I see what you mean. Dusk in the winter is good timing (bear in mind this is a long lane in darkness here), 4 ish is good timing which pleases most here at all times of year.

Well I put them out 4-6 pm ish does that count as early
maybe not!

But they absolutely do think that everyone should fall in line! There was a thread here recently that showed that opinion. Ok so they don’t do it, but they think they should be allowed to!!

Why are DH and I the only people in our part of the street (5 houses in total) who reverse into our drive, thereby making it much easier to get of the drive by driving forward? We don't live on a main road but other cars use it regularly during the daytime and there are usually cars parked on the street hampering visibility as you try and exit your drive. I see our neighbours almost hitting other cars as they try and reverse out of their drives on a daily basis.

My other one is why so many people in our town like to sit in their car in a supermarket carpark. Almost every time I go to the supermarket, be it Asda or Sainsbury's, there's someone sat in the car I park next to! DH and I have both noticed it.

People who wait until theyre actually on a bus before searching their bag:or pockets for their purse/travel pass. Especially when theyre holding up everyone else stood outside in the peeing rain

It wasn't meant to be judgy. The neighbours bins don't really effect me and I don't really care. I just don't get why and I can't ever ask them. It just baffles me when I see them

I didn't mean for the thread to get judgy, like the hair curlers comment wasn't really what I was aiming for. But I can't control the direction it goes in.

Retired people doing their supermarket shops on Saturdays 🙈.

People who use train toilets and throw toilet paper on the floor instead of flushing it down the toilet

Always trains. Don't think I've seen it in shopping centre or restaurant toilets

Sometimes I sneak out with my food caddy later though.. 🤭

Why do motorists drive forward onto their driveways and then have to reverse into the road??? I’ve witnessed so many near misses on our road alone, I asked one neighbour why he did it…….he said “that’s the correct way to do it”! NO IT ISN’T!!!

My DH is one of those knobs on the plane. I have no idea why he jumps up and insists on getting out as quickly as possible. he once had someone try and pinch his bag though at an aiport where the carousel was right near the entrance and exit though so it might be that.

I hate jumping up so usually just wait until the end and when there is plenty of space for me to sort myself out. That frustrates him incredibly wheras how he does it frustrates me. The DCs are I are going on a summer holiday without him this year as he is doing something relating to his Very Outing Hobby and it has already given me much pleasure thinking I don't have to worry about him leaping about and getting stressed.

My next door neighbours are in the process of selling their house. They moved out 2 months ago to a house that is a 10-min drive away. On the day they moved, they had professional movers come in with a HUGE lorry, so big that it completely blocked the street, pissing off us and the inhabitants of 3 other houses who hadn't been warned and couldn't get our cars out. The movers were there for half a day but the lorry wasn't even half full when they left. Since then, my neighbours have been coming to the house every two or three days to pick up stuff that they haven't moved yet. Why did they go to the expense and inconvenience to the neighbours of bringing in a huge lorry and then not even use it to move everything all at once? Also, when they do come, they come on bikes or in their tiny fiat 500 and struggle to carry stuff when they have a massive estate car that could easily be used to transport twice as much stuff as their fiat. Why? They are both busy people with busy jobs, why make things so complicated for themselves? Then there's the dance of the shutters. Sometimes when they come, they close or open the shutters, presumably to try and hide the fact that the house is empty. The thing is that they don't do it regularly or in a way that makes sense. So they'll come at 10 am one day and close a couple of shutters that were already open then they'll come back at 7pm 4 days later and open them again. They cleaned the kitchen window last weekend but have left the front garden in a state of overgrown abandon. I could go on.

I appreciate that I am probably over-invested in this but I am in a permanent state of bafflement

Retired people are busy all week doing retired activities!

Came here to write this. I was in a car park last week. 60 + empty spots all around me and she came and parked next to me with 3 kids under 5. Had to reverse out leaving the kids on the side so that I could open the doors to get them in.

Sometimes I do that because I've got shopping from another place in my bag and don't want to send the bloody thing haywire!

Wash their car every single day

Why don’t people think the rules don’t apply to them? Send your kids to school! Can you not see what damage you’re doing to them? You’re a n able-bodied man in your 30s. Why don’t you go to work? How can you have so little for ambition yourself and also have none for your kids??? Baffling.

No worries.. I’m enjoying it now!

This is just people having a few moments to themselves, away from their home/kids/work.

Also our supermarket is next to a maccies so it's usually blokes having a sneaky big Mac away from heir wives. I see my neighbour doing it a lot.

What baffles me is - when I'm out walking my dog on a nice day I will met half a dozen dog walkers out at the same sort of time. When it's raining I don't see a soul! Are their dogs all waiting in with their legs crossed, hoping it stops raining? My dog doesn't much like the rain, but she going out!

I’d be mystified by this. I’d be on high alert for their next baffling move

Because they are ADHD and they "forget". (DH, I'm looking at you.)

Pretty much half of what other people do just baffles me. I don't understand what is happening to people, they just seem to get stupider and stupider every year. I think we are doomed tbh.

@Whatexcellentboiledpotatoes Re. bins. In my experience of my parents, as they have got older, their world and their time has shrunk around them. Now they are in their 80s, something like putting the bins out is not a quick chore, it's an event in their week that must be worked around. "What are you doing tomorrow?" is a question that will be answered with 'putting the bins out' as an agenda item, rather than it being something not even worth mentioning. "We can't do that tomorrow morning as we've got to put the bins out" and so on.

So your neighbours may have a fixed time for this event, which doesn't conflict with any other 'events' such as going to the supermarket - they won't 'fit it in' as and when they can, it's something to be timetabled.

I may be totally wrong about your neighbours and before I get jumped on, I am well aware not everyone in their 80s is like this, some 85 year olds are working full time and going bungee jumping at the weekend etc. - but that's my personal experience.