Strange things people do

I will never ask for a cheese and ham sandwich again.

I've got a display only towel on my bathroom towel rail as well. Lucca. Always have had lol

When I was a child we had a weird family opposite us who never engaged with anyone in the street. The father used to walk to his front gate several times a day, lift it slightly after looking each way up and down the road, push it shut and walk back inside again. As the son got into his teens, he would do exactly the same.

I find it odd that people will go to the trouble of bagging up their doggy’s ‘do’s’ and then just slinging the yucky little bag on the ground instead of in the (often very nearby) bin! As a dog walker myself I would never dream of acquiring this disgusting habit! On a lighter note, people are often puzzled when I shake a light layer of salt on melon. Because it TASTES so good!

It was the story of the couple flossing their teeth that I found hilarious!!

My mum and dad had a china tea service which cost hundreds of pounds. They were given it when they first got married 1957.
The first time it was used is when my older brother brought home the girl who became his wife 1976.
The second time was when I brought home the boy who became my husband 1977.
My younger brother who is now 52 has brought lots of girls to mums house and it's never been brought out. (Mum said to me it's because she can't see him marry any of them)

A friends Mum used to leave all her cereal boxes, bottles, jars and tins on her work tops instead of putting them in the kitchen cupboards. Apparently she had plenty of cupboard space but the Mum said it was easier to find the things that she needed.
My friends grow up thinking this was normal until she got her own place.

Boz

Thinking on
Another bloke with OCD tendencies built a massive sand tray on his drive so visitors cars' wouldn't leak oil on his block paving, Someone got a stick and wrote "Get a Life" in the sand.

I wonder why it bothered them to the extent of being abusive on the man's own driveway!

My friend was told as a child that you should never eat the very bottom tip of an ice cream cone as it will give you consumption. To this day she eats the rest of the cone and puts the very bottom tip in the bin. She is 70.

My OH doesn’t like opening windows for fear of snakes getting in. A good thing to come from this is that the toilet lid is always down for the same reason. As we live in the north of England I can’t see the problem of snakes has ever worried me but hey-ho!

I found this hilarious. I laughed until I cried, haven’t done this for ages. Laughed so much that is! Thank you so much for sharing the story????

About 40 years ago, my lovely MiL bought an expensive 3 piece suite. It was light beige velour with coloured flowers. she immediately had covers made in a darkish blue Sanderson fabric as she didn't want it to get dirty. The mind boggles.

My aunt's neighbours had a beautiful lawn, mown into stripes which wasn't remarkable at the time. But the husband always insisted on hoovering the living room carpet in similar stripes, up and down, up and down. Presumably he did it every day. I was afraid to walk on it.

This was in the 1970s. It’s a story that has been passed round the family and no one has offered a solution. I’ll have to Google it now ! Thanks ..... I think ! ?

I have a neighbour opposite who rarely uses his car, but cleans it inside and out every week, and promptly puts it in his garage. The same man sometimes does backbends (not very well) on his front lawn!

My next door neighbours never open their curtains.

All very strange.

Boz

Thinking on
Another bloke with OCD tendencies built a massive sand tray on his drive so visitors cars' wouldn't leak oil on his block paving, Someone got a stick and wrote "Get a Life" in the sand.

My dad used to do this with our old car back in the 1970s as he didn't want oil stains on the driveway. Used to put cardboard under the front of the car to catch the drips.

I heard of someone who was expecting visitors.She cleaned the bathroom and put a note on the fresh towels- "If you use these towels I will kill you!" This of course was meant for her husband. She was so busy preparing for the guests that she forgot to remove the note and discovered the unused towels when they had gone away!

An elderly bachelor friend of my late husband’s who remained alone in the untouched massive family home. The telephone he used was still by his parents’ bed.
A spinster friend who lived with her sister elsewhere, but showed me round the unoccupied for years large detached family home she wouldn’t part with. She was so proud of it but I thought it was creepy, time had stopped in the 1950s and it was frozen in time, everything untouched since her parents died.

Cheese and ham sandwich Who knew? Every day's a school day on GN!

Two things; anyone know what that café called the cheese and ham sandwiches they served)

The second is, Lucca, in Scotland when I was a child, any lady of my grandmother's generation had linen towels hanging over the terry towelling ones on her bathroom towel rail, or a bedroom towel rail for that matter.

Ordinary mortals dried their hands on one of the terry towelling towels below them, but I believe the doctor and the minister or priest were meant to use the good linen towels.

I clearly remember an elderly aunt explaining this to my mother who as a Dane couldn't be expected to know this custom, and as a doctor's wife may not necessarily have had to observe it.

I know my mother subsequently asked the local meenister, addressed by us children as Uncle David, a courtesy title, extended to all my parents friends, the ladies being auntie or aunt this or that, whether she should hang a linen towel out for him and everyone dissolving into laughter.

The tea service that was only in use when the minister called was common in most Protestant families - Catholic families didn't bother unless the priest had been bring the Eucharist to a bed-bound member of the household - then tea and some fairly substantial foods were served for the priest after he had said Mass. If the Father just came in for a chat, he was served his tea in the ordinary cups or mugs.

Was it a vegan cafe?

It’s horrible, isn’t it!

Lucca, my mother (to whom I was always Filthy Child, Messy Child etc) berated me for standing on the bath mat and getting it wet!
When I asked what I had to do, she replied," The bath mat stays on the floor, you put the Stander-Onner on top of that and stand on that!"-all delivered in a tone that suggested only a fool would not know that...

That is so gross ?.

craftynan

tictacnana - I was puzzled by that so I googled “ulterior meaning of cheese and ham sandwich” and the urban dictionary threw up a result! I’m not going into detail here ??. I’m still puzzled though, surely if you’re in a cafe you can’t be accused of meaning the urban dictionary definition!

I wish I hadn't googled that!