Things people do that you just don't get

[Anne_Neville]

@nivlac

At ballgames, two things that people do that I don’t get (and annoy the heck out of me):

1. Taking their beer into the restroom, drinking while waiting in line to pee. Or placing it on top of the urinal as they pee!

This is actually a good safety practice. You should not leave a drink unattended, because of the risk of someone adulterating it (possibly with date-rape drugs or the like). I don’t know how much of a risk this is at ballgames, but it is a risk at bars. It’s risky to drink any drink that has been out of your sight and not been watched the whole time by someone you trust. Sad, but true.

[Prelude_to_Fascination]

@Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus

People whose taste in music never expands or grows, even though they are well into middle age. You’re fifty and you still listen only to the classic rock station? What are you, in seventh grade? Or slightly less sarcastically, are you still discovering nuances in the solo to “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love”?

Don’t misunderstand me. I like that era of music and there was a lot of great music produced during it. But there was a lot more, IMO, which was just coasting on the fumes of the late sixties and early seventies, particularly music styles got rather bland, on account of the artists that otherwise, the music would sound contrived.

They simply enjoy treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

Pedescribe, I agree, beauty is everywhere, however, it can be a different beauty in different places. I live near mountains, about 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean. I love the mountains, but I also love the beach. And a Florida beach is a different type of beauty than a rocky beach in Maine, just as the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia is different than the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

[timbicile59]

@KneadToKnow

Oh, that reminds me of one that always puzzles me: the same-initials-for-the-whole-family thing, especially when it’s the same as the last name. “Hi! I’m Jack, and this is my wife Jill. These are our kids, Judy, Jeff, Justine, and Jorge. If you ever need us, just drop us an e-mail at jjjjjjjohnson@gmail.com”

As a similarly initialled kid (four boys initialled stc) I can respond. My grandma used to just point at us and say Tom, Tim,Ted,Toby, which ever one you are.

Yes we also go by our middle names. Dad was odd.

[KneadToKnow]

@timbicile59

My grandma used to just point at us and say Tom, Tim,Ted,Toby, which ever one you are.

@Bill Cosby's mom

Come here, Roy, uh, Rupert, uh, Rutabaga … boy, what is your name? And don’t lie to me, 'cause I know where you live and I’ll find out who you are!

[diggleblop]

I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about reading on the toilet. I do it all the time, it’s quiet in there, I can concentrate, it’s a place you can go that you can almost guarantee nobody will bother you while in there. I love doing it.

What bothers me that people do is chew up pills when they take them. My uncles chew up Tylenol and other pills as soon as they take them. I never understood why they can’t just take them with some water and swallow them whole. Why would you want to taste that chemically taste? Ugh…

[suranyi]

@FlyingRamenMonster

So I was wondering, what are some common things people do that you just cannot comprehend? For me, it’s reading on the toilet. I mean, does it really take you so long to take a dump that you need to bring reading material? I’m pretty sure I can get in and out in all of 30 seconds, which is apparently 30 seconds of valuable reading time that I’m wasting. Wouldn’t you rather read on a sofa somewhere while not performing any sort of bodily function? And doesn’t reading on the can distract you from your, er, primary objective? You’re all crazy and fibre-deficient if you ask me

I wish I could be in and out in 30 seconds. I don’t like reading on the toilet at all, but it beats sitting on the toilet and staring into space for ages waiting for something to happen.

Actually, it’s been so bad lately that I’ve started to see a doctor about it, but so far nothing has helped much.

Ed

[Gary_Robson]

I don’t get sports fans spending hundreds of dollars for tickets. I used to go to baseball games when they were $10 or $15 a ticket, and I’ve paid as much as $50 for pro football. But if it’s a choice between a $200 ticket, or watching it on my bigscreen TV in a comfy chair, the TV wins.

I don’t get people who drive 20mph under the speed limit and won’t move over to let people pass. If you don’t want to drive 65, that’s fine. But pull over at the next pullout if there are five people behind you trying to get by.

On the flip side, I don’t get people who HAVE to pass, even if they don’t intend to go faster than me. I know I’m driving a large pickup truck. But you know what? I bought one with a big enough engine that I can drive up that 10% grade at 70mph with 2,500 pounds of hay in the back. I don’t want to follow your damned underpowered piece of junk that can only do 30 up the hill, so don’t pass me!

I don’t get why people care what someone else’s house or car looks like. Do your property rights really extend across the street to affect whether I can put an RV in my driveway? Does it really ruin your life when my daughter (who can’t afford a nice car) parks her old beater on the street? Why would someone actually go to the city to prevent a neighbor from painting their house blue?

I don’t get why people care if I wear a hat. It’s comfy. It keeps the sun off my face (skin cancer runs in the family) and the rain off my head. It keeps me warmer in the winter. And I LIKE my hat. I think I look good in it, and others have told me the same. So why do I get so much grief for wearing it in restaurants and such? There are forty-seven people wearing baseball caps in here – leave me and my hat alone (besides, there’s nowhere to hang it up if I did take it off).

@Aghris

I’m the complete opposite. I can’t for the life of me understand why someone would want to wear something that is obviously out of fashion.

Looking good is NOT the same as being “in fashion.” If you’re dressing for comfort and good looks, then those clothes will be just fine next year or in ten years. If you’re dressing for “style” then those clothes will look silly in ten years. My jeans and boots look just as good today as they did when I was in high school in the 70s.

@Aghris

Apart for keeping us warm, the next function of clothing is to look nice, and as a result be attractive to other people.

No, no, a thousand times no. The next function is to make ME feel good. If I feel comfortable, confident, and good-looking, then it really makes no difference to me whether anyone else (aside from my wife) thinks I’m attractive.