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?

It’s really neither gross or unnecessary unless you have a compost heap? We live in a county which leads the national recycling league (if there is such a thing?) and have separate bags/containers for cardboard, plastics/tins, glass, paper and food, collected weekly. General waste restricted to 3 bags collected every three weeks. It is an absolute eye opener to realise how much waste can be recycled if people make a small amount of effort, and the food waste is in biodegradable bags within the caddy which can then be collected free once composted, for the garden. Not much effort to scrape your plates into one bag rather than another and limit the vast amounts of landfill is it?

"Re-phrasing perfectly decent sentences"

If it's a manger doing that it's sometimes because they're not competent at their actual job and focus on the little things instead.
I find most things are quite meaningless at work so I suppose if you're going to believe in the BS you might as well get into it completely!

I think another thread is due https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5521465-things-people-do-that-baffle-you-2

When I was growing up we were all being told that salt is bad for you and to use less of it. Chips are best with mayonnaise anyway and in that case, no need for salt.

"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."

Maybe she can't define it, but I can clearly recognise this as airing. People used to think clothes dried outside needed airing and they went into the airing cupboard where the hot water tank was. I don't know the science of it, but I'm quite sure it's not 'loopy'.

Why is it OK for people with learning difficulties to make mistakes but not for anybody else. I bet you make mistakes too.

Even those who don't become fat do become apple shaped to some extent. The loss of oestrogen means losing the feminine curves. Some experts deny there is any automatic weight gain and claim it's just because people are less active as they get older, others admit it happens.

A lot of the info is flawed though. We used to think we should behave like people in the blue zones, but it's coming to light now that those were maybe just areas where deaths are not registered properly.

Horrible person. Happy now?

Just for clarification in my local supermarket all the cashiers are women just like in yours it's only men who huff and puff. It's also the convention that if you have shopping to unload and the person behind you only has one of two items you let them go first, it works well . If you tied it you wouldnt be bothered by them huffing and puffing

"People who seem to take absolute delight in being diagnosed with something new. "

Yes, because now they might get some treatment!

I used to have lots of "whys".
My understanding now is that lots of woird behaviour is that people dont know how to behave or dont care as they put themselves first. With some people it will be genuine not knowing, not realising as nobody raised them to be considerate. Some will never get it.
Weird habits may be just inherited, people believe its just one correct way of doing things or dont think about whether its tha best way.
Some habits will be in the clean freak category.

Taking bins out 24 early might be just on the side of being supersure its not forgotten, being anxious about it. Old people think differently in many areas. We will find why once we get old.

The doctors should be able to offer your something for that though, even if it's a hysterectomy that comes with its own problems.

Why is it so difficult to understand that different people like different food and tastes?

Oh yes, this is stupid.

The thing is if you clean them with water they get wet and soggy and you have to wait for them to dry. I try to wipe with damp kitchen paper, but I understand why people peel mushrooms.

I was shocked about folded corners in books when I came to the UK. Noone would do that in a country where I come from. The culture was and still is that you look after your stuff, dont waste anything, conserve resources etc.

When I was a child and young adult books were still fairly expensive items that you did not deliberately destroy. I dont want my books to look shabby, especially the expensive one.

Also, I dont understand the need for the marking a place in the book at all. Dont understand why people need a bookmark to find a place they stopped reading a book.

My mother had a neighbour who would leave the front door wide open when she went out for the day. Her reckoning was a burglar would assume someone was in…

Lifts are also for people with things to carry and they're also sometimes for everyone.

Tip. Wash with boiling water and leave flat to dry.

I always put my bin out early ( usually within 24-36 hours of collection) - partly cus I work shift work and if I come back late I don’t want to be trundling a noisy bin round from back to front of house at 1am, partly so I’ll remember rather than when I return exhausted and don’t feel like moving it, and partly because if it actually isn’t raining I’d rather do it then than later when it’s forecast to tip it down!!!

My late DH used to say "I don't want to know what I haven't got, I want to know what I have got". This is after doctors seemed to think he should be delighted that it wasn't xxx.

"Dont understand why people need a bookmark to find a place they stopped reading a book."

What? How do you find your place?

@usedtobeaylis Good list. Talk about people with their first names and assume they know them eg Delia.
Talk abou the RF as if they are their friends.

That takes a long time though.

If you don't season your food I assume you don't possess tastebuds tbh.