Things people do that baffle you 2

[jenzzi]

Following this thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5520735-things-people-do-that-just-baffle-you?page=40

Things included
talking on loudspeaker in public
very elderly people who shop on Saturday morning
people that stop at shop entrances
people park next to you in a car park that is about 20% full

Oh god, I cannot stand people who stop dead in doorways, at the top of escalators, or just in the street in front of you.
They are right up there with the people who have conversations in the middle of supermarket aisles, with their trollies left sideways.
Or who wander off, leaving their trolley in the middle of the aisle, instead of to the side and out of the way.

My stepsons are staunch antivax but one has his own business selling weight loss jabs....

Erm...I'm NOT doing it wrong. Not every situation is the same. Huge signs to say it's down to one lane for AGES, no traffic merging, we're all going in one direction here, & folk speed UP & bomb it right down to where the traffic cones start & then indicate for someone who has been waiting to let them in. Why are the rest of us less important than Mr/Mrs entitled in their- always large- car? What makes them more entitled to get where we're all going quicker? And I don't mean that I'm queuing way too early, there's a lot of traffic, so it slows up.

Despite being a very chilled & magnanimous driver, I am NOT letting them in, & am baffled by those in front of me who do. That is all. Pretty crap to say I'm doing driving 'wrong' 🙄.

it’s very odd. One friend in particular (who has 2 degrees) told me that all vaccines are bad and she sent me link to a website by an American doctor (who also says all vaccines are bad). This man does have a medical degree but is actually a businessman. His whole website is a shop to sell his expensive pills and potions and is dressed up as medical advice. Why an intelligent person can’t see that is advice is (a) not impartial and (b) not followed by any other doctors absolutely baffles me.

I know others have mentioned similar but, my sister, an anti vaxxer, refused all covid jabs but is quite happy to have mounjaro.

Ask to see their "research" 😁

Unless it's free-flowing, traffic should be fairly evenly distributed between the lanes to use up all the available road space, then merge-in-turn at the point one lane closes. If people are able to 'bomb' down and indicate to be let in, it suggests the full lane is not free-flowing but the closing lane is empty - the conditions for merge-in-turn are therefore met. Imagine there was no lane closure. Would one lane be full and the other empty?
[edited to add: the ones 'bombing down' are using both lanes correctly; though if everyone else was using them correctly there wouldn't be space to 'bomb']

Like a pharmacy?

Frequently these websites are run by former doctors who have had their licenses to practice medicine revoked for one reason or another. As you can imagine, their career options are limited at that point.

Agree completely… using only one lane too soon makes the traffic jam worse!
Merging in turn is far more efficient

God's sake! It's NOT too soon, it's being cognisant of the road conditions & moving over accordingly. These are local roadworks that everyone knows about, not a motorway/ dual carriageway where you're unfamiliar & it may come upon you quickly.

Think what you all like, but I, for one, will not be letting you in. And it's not just me, loads of people refuse to let them in. Anyway, enough from a light-hearted thread!

@Puffalicious

I'm aware that you're easy going and enjoying this light-hearted thread. I must admit that one of the things that baffles me is how people seem to be quite at ease in posting notices that are grammatically incorrect. It is unusual for me to pick up on such a thing, but this half of a sentence had two errors in it:-

, when you've drove at excess speed past many cars who are waiting.

Indeed, it is totally baffling, but I hope that you'll forgive me for asking - were the errors intentional? I did note that you used some colloquialisms in other posts, so it could have been intentional, obvs.

Happy weekend!

I recognise quite a few of these types on the threads that appear about potential downsides of WLI.

I also find it baffling how they seem to have aligned so deeply with their brand that they may as well be wearing knitted scarves and beanies in their team colours. They get so angry when anyone dares to question anything, and every thread ends with a group of them congratulating themselves and mocking the 'uninformed' people wanting to discuss a few things, who they claim are just jealous of them and angry, via some convoluted 'reasoning'.

People that respond to a post that has a slight grammatical or spelling error, pretending they have no idea what the OP means. You’re either thick or being goady.

I don’t understand it either. When my students were all excited about joining the military it was very hard for me not to say, “It’s not like you think it is. It’s not like a video game. There are long periods of tedium and sudden adrenaline rushes. You know you’re volunteering to get killed or maimed, right? And/ or to kill or maim other people. Even if you never see active combat, you’ve joined a death machine.” I cannot imagine the stress of being a military spouse. How could you ever sleep, knowing that your partner is in danger thousands of miles away?
Obviously, those who join see it very, very
different to me. They find great value in it and I respect that. But I don’t get it. I would not want a child of mine to be sent to the war in Iran right now.

People who go on holiday and not buy travel insurance. If they can afford hundreds or thousands of pounds on holiday, the cost of insurance is very little.

As usually in the news, there is always someone who injured themselves - didn’t buy travel insurance. Family create a GoFundMe page for the £50k to take them home. Or they had injured themselves whilst quad biking - they bought a policy which didn’t cover outdoor pursuits.

The cost of the upgrade for majority of under 40s is a few quid.

Abso-bloody-exactly. The lane closure point will have been put where it was in the hope/expectation that people would use both lanes up to that point and then merge in turn. This is the most efficient way in terms of both traffic throughput and use of road space (and minimises the chance of the traffic reaching back to prior junctions and causing knock-on problems). People using the empty lane are doing it right. The 'see-a-queue-mindlessly-join-it' people fuming about 'queue jumpers' have decided to make up their own rules and to get radgy about other people not following them. Well that's up to them, no reason for others to play their game though.

People driving towards you on a narrow country lane and bashing on past a passing place when they can see you coming ... you then both have to engage in complicated manoeuvres to get by each other. Drives me nuts.
Sorry to say it is always men who do this.

Merge-in-turn (which I admit took me a while to get my head round as it wasn't always a thing) applies to planned lane closures in all multi-lane settings. On a motorway/dual carriageway it's most unlikely to come upon you quickly. There is often a mile or more of warning. And how does 'everyone' know about local roadworks? What about drivers from out-of-area?

One report (Auto Express, 2019) found 70% of drivers don't know how to merge-in-turn, while the moving over early method "... has been proven to significantly increase congestion."

People who go through having a whole baby and naming them something so bleh and boring.

Here (France) in this situation, 99% of drivers don't slow down, don't wait for you to pull over or pull into a passing space - they just aim for the gap without slowing down. Certainly keeps things interesting!

No need to be baffled, it was a simple case of typing quickly. MN isn't a professional context.

I've fixed it to ease your bafflement:
", when you’ve driven at an excessive speed past many cars that were waiting.”

Just so you're not worrying that I'm not aware of tense, or relative pronouns.

I do use colloquialisms, I'm very fond of them. Indeed I like to go further & very much like to pepper my English with my other language, which is Scots.

A favourite colloquialism is rips ma knittin'. For example, I may say that unnecessary pedantry rips ma knittin'.

Now, you also have a happy weekend, obvs.

One thing I haven't tried is moving over to the closing lane. Having seen the warning, sometimes long in advance, if the 'open' lane is fuller than the 'closing' lane the latter space is wasted. It would make sense for some to move over and even up the congestion, then zipper as usual at the merge point.

This could mean that as the incorrect drivers move over to the 'open' lane, it would be correct for the knowledgeable ones there to move over to the 'closing' lane until the merge point. However, imagine the apoplexy from the incorrect brigade on watching this unfold around them!

You appear to suggest that it's ok not to uphold standards, even if in an unprofessional context, but many thanks for taking the time to amend and respond.

'rips ma knittin''

Oh, I like it, yes. I may borrow it if that's ok.🙏

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