# Mundane pointless things you do anyway **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682 "2021-11-20T18:12:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/21 "2021-11-21T03:01:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I’ve been contemplating starting a “Comfortable Bra” thread. Where we can also discuss Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster. - I’ve yet to see a single picture of either one wearing a bra. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/22 "2021-11-21T03:18:41Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > > [@commasense](#): > > > > I automatically turned my undershirts and underpants right side out before folding and putting them away. > > How did they get inside-out? Usually, when i pull them off, they end up inside out. Socks and t-shirts do, too. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/23 "2021-11-21T03:21:09Z")
I talk to my pets all the time. Back when I worked in a call center, I’m pretty sure my conversations with my car or my bird (see avatar for picture of bird) were more intelligent than some I had with callers. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/24 "2021-11-21T03:22:16Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > > [@commasense](#): > > > > I automatically turned my undershirts and underpants right side out before folding and putting them away. > > How did they get inside-out? Among the great mysteries of life, IMO. I routinely pull stuff out of the dryer that I’m certain was right-side out when put in the laundry. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/25 "2021-11-21T04:51:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I think I had an underwear thread once on the old board That was the thread that brought me into the Dope. It’s all your fault! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/26 "2021-11-21T05:40:59Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > I say “please” and “thank you” to Alexa. Does Alexa say “You’re welcome” ? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/27 "2021-11-21T06:26:14Z")
Alexa says things to me like “Why, Captain Butler, how you DO go on, ah swear…” She might be developing PTSD from being in my house… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/28 "2021-11-21T06:37:54Z")
I pay a few bills every month by using a pen to write on a check to put in an envelope to seal up with a drop of water to stick a stamp on to drop in the mailbox. Mundane, check. Pointless, check. Check, check. ---
**Author:** ![48Willys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/db5fbb/32.png) [@48Willys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/48Willys)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/29 "2021-11-21T06:52:11Z")
I do not know about Nessie, but the Yeti’s cousin Bigfoot really might be more comfortable wearing a bra. I have done several unofficial studies on clothes going into the laundry right side out & coming out of the washer wrong side out. I make sure that all the clothes were/are right side out going into the washer. About 1/2 of them come out wrong side out. When I use the drier, it has no effect on the the wrong or right of things. If it goes in right side out it is right side out at the end of the cycle. I have tested 25 loads in the washer & 18 in the drier so far. The clothes line also does not flip clothes inside out. Seven loads for it. Jeans always stay the way they were, everything else seems to flip about 1/2 of the load. Now that data really should count for mundane stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/30 "2021-11-21T07:13:14Z")
Yes. And I don’t talk to them in cutsie voices like I do my dog. I talk to them as if I were talking to another human being. “Dude, you see me opening the can of cat food, you can stop meowing now!” ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/31 "2021-11-21T12:33:52Z")
> [@48Willys](#): > > I do not know about Nessie, but the Yeti’s cousin Bigfoot really might be more comfortable wearing a bra. > > I have done several unofficial studies on clothes going into the laundry right side out & coming out of the washer wrong side out. > > I make sure that all the clothes were/are right side out going into the washer. About 1/2 of them come out wrong side out. When I use the drier, it has no effect on the the wrong or right of things. If it goes in right side out it is right side out at the end of the cycle. > > I have tested 25 loads in the washer & 18 in the drier so far. The clothes line also does not flip clothes inside out. Seven loads for it. > > Jeans always stay the way they were, everything else seems to flip about 1/2 of the load. > > Now that data really should count for mundane stuff. Thank you for your research. ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/32 "2021-11-21T12:51:01Z")
Clothing is manufactured with the seam stitching on the outside, visible. That is the natural way the clothing wants to rest. How else could clothing easily be made? When it comes out of the laundry with what most of us consider inside out, it has actually turned it self into it original relaxed state while in the machinery. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/33 "2021-11-21T20:45:35Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Does talking to my cats count as mundane and pointless? Absolutely not. Social interaction is important. I’d go nuts without my cats to talk to. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/34 "2021-11-21T21:35:19Z")
Try a web search on “wearing clothes inside out superstition”. Back when I was taking Chem 101, we were taught to NEVER hand something directly to a person, but to put it down within their reach. The reason was that you don’t want two people juggling a beaker of strong acid - so follow the aforementioned safety rule EVERY time. I still to this when passing the salt. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/35 "2021-11-21T21:41:45Z")
> [@cincinnatus](#): > > When it comes out of the laundry with what most of us consider inside out, it has actually turned it self into it original relaxed state while in the machinery. Free the oppressed underwear from this outside-out and inside-in tyranny! Wear your undies inside-out! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/36 "2021-11-21T21:54:37Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > In my youthful years, I was so concerned with what others thougt of me, I tried to fif in. One of the blessings of being senior is the concern is gone. I am now tempted to wear my pants and top inside out and see what transpires! Sad that this passes for adventure to me This kid I knew ages ago (he was about 8 then-- he’s at least 50 now…) went through a period where he wore all of his clothes inside out. The parents were delightful, free-spirited, hippy-dippy types (this was in Austin back when it really _was_ weird). The kid’s teacher would call them and say, “Bobby showed up at school today, and all his clothes were inside out.” The Dad would reply, “You know, we noticed that, too.” Aside: they were really a very cool family. All four children were born at home. They also were adherents of The Family Bed, and the parents and children slept in one ginormous bed from when the kids were babies until, inevitably (and normally), as the kids got older, they wanted their own beds. The kids’ beds were roll-up futon-type pads in their own rooms that they tucked away during the daytime so there would be more floor space for playing. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > I pay a few bills every month by using a pen to write on a check to put in an envelope to seal up with a drop of water to stick a stamp on to drop in the mailbox. That lived in the house that Jack built. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/37 "2021-11-21T22:41:49Z")
This post reminds me of the time a co-worker, who had a child in the same school as my son, said to me on the commuter train, “Do you know that your son has been wearing skirts to school?!” Why yes, I did know he was wearing skirts to school, and to a variety of other venues. He borrowed money from me to purchase his first skirt. (He had the money at home, just not on his person.) We aren’t nearly as hippy-dippy as the family you describe, but I wasn’t going to police the gender expression of my teen-age child, either. It’s not as if he was unaware of the significance of wearing a skirt. ---
**Author:** ![netverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@netverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netverse)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/38 "2021-11-21T22:44:54Z")
He said, “right side out,” not “Inside out”. Inside out could still mean that any side, right or wrong, is on the inside and you just reversed it. ---
**Author:** ![netverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@netverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netverse)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/39 "2021-11-21T22:49:14Z")
If the tag side(inner side) displaying to the outside, I tend to leave it that way, till I use my shirt, and then turn it right side outwards. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682/40 "2021-11-21T23:36:01Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > How did they get inside-out? When I remove a t-shirt, it is ALWAYS outside-out. When my husband removes a t-shirt, it is ALWAYS inside-out. But when I take them out of the dryer, they are mixed 50/50. I always fix them before hanging them up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-things-you-do-anyway/954682.md?page=3)