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?

My aunt, retired for years, insists on doing her main shop at Tesco on a Saturday morning when it is at its busiest.

Some people do it becuase if they reversed in, the door would have to open into the hedge/fence between houses and making it hard to get out of the car.

I love dogs (unusual for mumsnet!) but dont own one as I dont want the hassle or responsibility of owning one

My neighbour got herself as medium dog and I never heard or saw him apart from her bloke dragging it down the street

Then she got herself a tiny breed

This dog barks,snaps,howls,tries to attack and would have my face off given a scrap of a chance

Of course his noise sets off the other dog and we have to listen to two sets of barking everytime i to to hang my washing out/go to my outside freezer/cut the grass and its getting to the point I cant use the garden at all

She stands at her back door,cooing both names while they ignore her and try to come through my hedge to bite me (the little one would)

We've had to dog proof our garden as she won't

So mine is 'why get as dog and not bother to train them?'

That's the bare basic of owning a dog!

My other is why do people listen to YouTube,/tictok and dont use earfones?

I have no interest in hearing it-lad at work is awful for this and all I want to do is have my break in peace,not listen to whatever shite hes watching

No, that's acceptable 😁

People who volunteer to do things nobody really wanted or asked for, then moan about it. Just don't then.

I put my bin out the day before because of instructions from the council that they must be out by 6.30 am on the day of collection. No way I’m getting up that early.

Also, on the supermarket car park theme. You see me loading my shopping into the boot of my car. You see me return my trolley to the trolley bay. You see me walk to my car and approach the driver’s door THEN YOU REVERSE INTO THE SPACE NEXT TO WHERE IM GETTING INTO MY CAR!!!! Wait two seconds!!!! Absolute bellends.

But surely that would be the same if they drive forward into their drive, assuming they have passengers every now and again?

I can never understand why people casually give their phone number to the likes of neighbours and then come on Mumsnet complaining that they got a whinging message about something trivial. I have never in my life given my phone number to a neighbour nor have I asked for one. I dont require or desire that kind of relationshiop.

A neighbour whom I had already had "words" with once asked for my phone number.

"My number is for friends and family and not for random people"
"But Im your neighbour"
"Your a random person who happens to live next door"

Why building contractors on A roads seem often to be not doing very much. I have seen people asleep. Often in vehicles, staring at phones, chatting, or sometimes not even there. Too often for it to always be lunch or break etc.

People who feel the need to tell other people that they "look tired". If someone is tired enough that it shows physically on their face, surely they know they're tired. It's not informative, it's not interesting, it's certainly going to make them feel less tired, so what's the point?

People who complain about other people in supermarkets when most of them deliver

I am wondering why some people really really procrastinate when they have taken the day OFF work in order to focus on a critical piece of life admin (applying for passports for dual-citizen DCs) and instead they are on MN and considering going to the local cafe for a sandwich and a glass of wine when they are perfectly aware that they need to Get This Shit sorted or their entire summer holiday might possibly be in jeopardy.

(cough cough. This may be quite specific to me. I am a shocking procrastinator though).

People who let their young child approach you and stare at you. Why do they do this - I am not interested in your child and have no wish to interact with it.

In a society in which people are no longer allowed to judge others because all choices and behaviours are equally valid, this is the inevitable result.

I am baffled by people that live in filthy homes....like, how do you relax in filth .
Especially the people that blame the kids/dogs/cats/hamster for the filth, you chose to have them, just clean up!
I am extra baffled by the ones that brag about it - admitting happily they haven't changed their bedding in six months etc.

I'm not talking about the day before. I'm talking about the morning before. So like 7 or 8am the day before collection. A full 24hrs early. Even longer on recycling week because they don't come until 11am.
They are in all day and go on and put of their house several times in the day.

What on earth? Surely if the stuff is in a bag why does the bin even need washing?

Also people who brag about how they only wash once a week. One of my colleagues talks about how she only showers once a week on a Sunday and 'no-one can tell'. We can. Really.

(Okay, that IS judgy but I share an open plan office with her and by Friday things are getting unpleasant).

You didn t ask for things that others do that impress you....

I was in Las Vegas last week and Wrestlemania was in town, there were several bars advertising events where championship belts would be on display and the opportunity to have pictures taken with said belts.
This baffled me, it’s an area of sporting culture I have zero knowledge of.
I can understand having pictures with the wrestlers but making a big deal about the belts seemed a mad money grab.

Those really obvious cosmetic enhancements (fake eyelashes, duck lips etc).
It just looks so weird, and unnatural... who are you doing it for??

I would like to know why my husband closes the plug in the bathroom sink when he brushes his teeth. He then leaves the plug closed and wanders off, so the sink has an inch of of toothpaste spit and water which I have to put my fingers in to open the plug and drain away. Just why? There's absolutely no need to close the plug when brushing your teeth. He appears to be as baffled as I am as to the reasoning behind it.

I think it's a mix of becoming set in their ways as they get older "I've always done my food shop on Saturday morning". (Even my husband aged only 65 is going a bit that way.) Plus another factor is that a lot of older people need less sleep.

When I was young I had a Saturday job in a chemists in a small seaside town with lots of retired people. I'd arrive at work just before 8.30 (the shop opened at 9) and there would invariably be a small group already waiting outside. I'd open the doors to accept delivery crates and get the shelves restocked before we opened to the public and they would try and surge in. We'd politely hustle them out again saying we didn't open until 9 and they'd say things like "but I've been up for hours already, waiting to start the day!"

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