Daily weirdness of others

cantdecide · 07-02-2017 9:27am #1

What weird behaviour do you observe in your daily life?

I give my colleague a life to work and back every day. The commute is 30km or so... except Monday evening. Their partner takes a class on Monday so rather than risking me making them late, the partner leaves the house, drives the 30Kms through rush hour traffic with the baby in the car, picks up my colleague in our car park and we all drive the 25kms together back the same road.

There is literally no sense in this but I have it on good authority that there is no point in pointing out the obvious ridiculousness of the needless 50km round trip.

Weird.

realdanbreen · 07-02-2017 9:30am

cantdecide wrote: »

What weird behaviour do you observe in your daily life?

I give my colleague a life to work and back every day. The commute is 30km or so... except Monday evening. Their partner takes a class on Monday so rather than risking me making them late, the partner leaves the house, drives the 30Kms through rush hour traffic with the baby in the car, picks up my colleague in our car park and we all drive the 25kms together back the same road.

There is literally no sense in this but I have it on good authority that there is no point in pointing out the obvious ridiculousness of the needless 50km round trip.

Weird.

What's the colleague like in general terms?

Graces7 · 07-02-2017 9:30am

cantdecide wrote: »

What weird behaviour do you observe in your daily life?

I give my colleague a life to work and back every day. The commute is 30km or so... except Monday evening. Their partner takes a class on Monday so rather than risking me making them late, the partner leaves the house, drives the 30Kms through rush hour traffic with the baby in the car, picks up my colleague in our car park and we all drive the 25kms together back the same road.

There is literally no sense in this but I have it on good authority that there is no point in pointing out the obvious ridiculousness of the needless 50km round trip.

Weird.

As a dear old blind Yorkshire lady I knew decades ago used to say, "There;s nowt so queer as folks" .. and in those far off innocent days queer was an innocent word..

Nekarsulm · 07-02-2017 9:35am

cantdecide wrote: »

What weird behaviour do you observe in your daily life?

I give my colleague a life to work and back every day. The commute is 30km or so... except Monday evening. Their partner takes a class on Monday so rather than risking me making them late, the partner leaves the house, drives the 30Kms through rush hour traffic with the baby in the car, picks up my colleague in our car park and we all drive the 25kms together back the same road.

There is literally no sense in this but I have it on good authority that there is no point in pointing out the obvious ridiculousness of the needless 50km round trip.

Weird.

What's really weird is that when you are driving its a 30 km journey, but on mondays, when your colleague is picked up by their partner, you can both do it in 25?

ILikeBoats · 07-02-2017 9:41am

My friend cooks/orders a pizza with pineapple but will pick it off before eating because...he likes the flavour but not the taste

TallGlass · 07-02-2017 9:44am

ILikeBoats wrote: »

My friend cooks/orders a pizza with pineapple but will pick it off before eating because...he likes the flavour but not the taste

But hows he know the flavour if he doesn't like the taste :-/

realdanbreen · 07-02-2017 9:53am

Nekarsulm wrote: »

What's really weird is that when you are driving its a 30 km journey, but on mondays, when your colleague is picked up by their partner, you can both do it in 25?

Obviously one of them is having an affair!

Dolph Starbeam · 07-02-2017 9:56am

ILikeBoats wrote: »

My friend cooks/orders a pizza with pineapple but will pick it off before eating because...he likes the flavour but not the taste

Doesn't like the taste or the texture? Because I would be the same with mushrooms, I like the taste but don't like to eat them because of the texture.

Badly Drunk Boy · 07-02-2017 10:04am

Nekarsulm wrote: »

What's really weird is that when you are driving its a 30 km journey, but on mondays, when your colleague is picked up by their partner, you can both do it in 25?

The OP probably lives 5km further from work than his colleague.

ILikeBoats · 07-02-2017 10:14am

Dolph Starbeam wrote: »

Doesn't like the taste or the texture? Because I would be the same with mushrooms, I like the taste but don't like to eat them because of the texture.

I'm sure that's what he meant but we laughed on end when he said taste!

Great username!

LCD · 07-02-2017 11:47am

Colleague arrives in work, parks his car, goes in (30sec walk from car to desk) clocks in, goes back out & moves his car literally 2 spaces over, walks 30sec back to his desk

Could actually write a book on his habits

foxy farmer · 07-02-2017 12:08pm

Woman not too far from me goes out each day to throw holy water on the road outside her gate. How many times ive seen her and There she is with a plastic bottle standing in the middle of the road shaking the contents. She runs back in when she sees traffic approaching.
Was behind her car awhile back and she covered a 1/2 mile of the road on either side of her entrance. Every so often you'd see the neck of the bottle come out the side window and a slash of water flying from it.
She supposedly has been wearing a surgical collar (foam type) with nearly 30yrs after some relation had finished using it. If you meet her on a summers day she has a scarf on to hide it.

Graces7 · 07-02-2017 12:08pm

TallGlass wrote: »

But hows he know the flavour if he doesn't like the taste :-/

I think they mean texture and flavour and I would agree; pineapple can be mortal chewy stuff

team_actimel · 07-02-2017 12:12pm

Colleague who goes on the morning break does the same thing every day.
Comes into kitchen, sits down and starts eating, then gets up and makes tea and sits back down again, then goes out of room to go toilet and comes back and resumes eating. Every morning - wrecks my head this constantly getting up and down.

Hercule Poirot · 07-02-2017 12:25pm

There's a guy I work with who has the strangest eating habit I've ever seen.

At lunch he will eat two sandwiches (four slices of bread to clarify) with both sandwiches cut in half across the middle like most people do - he will then pick up one of the halves, fold it over in his hand and eat all the halves like that.

We've queried this habit with him and he has no idea why he does it; he just says that that is how he like to eat his sandwiches, which is fair enough, he was asked about the possibility of cutting them into quarters but no, he just likes to fold them as he eats them - everything else about him is normal and he gets on with nearly everyone, he just has this odd little quirk about sandwiches

BuyersRemorse · 07-02-2017 12:41pm

There's an old guy who walks around Dublin city centre, usually wearing a black suit and carrying a bible. First time I noticed him was when he slapped my wife on the wrist and yelled "Fornicator!" at her, because we were holding hands. A couple of months later, during Summer we saw him pointing and yelling "Cover up dem titties!" at some girls who were dressed in Tshirts and shorts. He was at it again last week, yelling "homosexuals!" at a Gay couple in Grafton Street. I imagine he goes home and gives himself a good thrashing every night before bed.

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 07-02-2017 1:14pm

During my morning train commute into the office. There is this one guy that stands in one particular spot on the platform, turns to his right and STARES at the area the train will come from. He does not move from this position at all. Rain or wind, he stands perfectly still and stares. It's as if he is willing the train to appear on the horizon.

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Another weird thing I've noticed with train commuters is the people who think that rapidly pressing the door button will make it open faster, or, those who feel the need to bash the button as hard as they can. Not a hint of state love from these people.

Birneybau · 07-02-2017 1:25pm

I've seen a guy in work fill a cup with boiling water from the tea machine...and then microwave it. It's already boiling.

Sometimes I think these people are aliens, with their 'not quite right' impressions of human behaviour.

Graces7 · 07-02-2017 1:59pm

The greatest weirdness on this thread is the folk who make comments on others like this

I mean challenging the way someone eats their butties ! How weird can you get :rolleyes:

cactusgal · 07-02-2017 2:23pm

Graces7 wrote: »

The greatest weirdness on this thread is the folk who make comments on others like this I mean challenging the way someone eats their butties ! How weird can you get :rolleyes:

Then why did you bother posting? Genuine question.

Aglomerado · 07-02-2017 2:33pm

I see a few:

My next door neighbour who is renting his house collects pallets and spends 20 minutes every evening chopping them up for the fire. I've also seen him trimming around the edges of his lawn with a scissors.

At work: it's fun watching everyone arrive first thing and look at their quirks when parking, like the colleague who, even if there are spaces beside the door, will park at the opposite end of the car park, right beside the one car that has parked there that early.

We get the "park up, clock in, move car" people as well. And double parkers. Despite innumerable notices from facilities management, the same people double park every day, blocking colleagues in who need to go out at lunchtime or leave early. Last week one person did a double whammy, was asked to move their car at lunchtime, did so, but double parked on someone else, asked to move at 4pm again.... Always on fag break and not at their desk when these incidents happen too... :rolleyes:

I'm guilty myself, I like the same seat in the canteen every morning. It's quiet there, and I like to read. It doesn't feel right sitting anywhere else.

Kidchameleon · 07-02-2017 2:36pm

I often see a guy walking around the 15 acres in the Phoenix Park chanting loudly "Woooooaaaahhhh"

Teddington Cuddlesworth · 07-02-2017 2:48pm

People that set 3 or more alarms in the morning.

My other half used to do it, I put a stop to it once we moved in together.

A friend we both live with does it too. He can have alarms going off for up to 2 hours every day.
He does shifts and work strange hours so I'm not that tough on him but there is the odd morning that they'll start at 6am

hoodini89 · 07-02-2017 2:58pm

My ex-housemate was the strangest chap.

- He had a bed in his own room but he slept on a mattress on the ground.

- My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.
When finished his shower I'd hear him jump out of the shower/bath with his 2 feet together, a big thud. (Most people use one leg at a time I'm guessing when getting out.)

whoopsadoodles · 07-02-2017 3:07pm

hoodini89 wrote: »

My ex-housemate was the strangest chap.

- He had a bed in his own room but he slept on a mattress on the ground.

- My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.
When finished his shower I'd hear him jump out of the shower/bath with his 2 feet together, a big thud. (Most people use one leg at a time I'm guessing when getting out.)

I love him :pac:

Buckfast W · 07-02-2017 3:25pm

Asian guy around my area wears a wife beater no matter the weather.

Iv'e seen him in the depths of winter with no jacket on, or if it's raining he'll just use an umbrella but still wear the wife beater, no jacket, very odd.

Or some of the girls in work who eat a Kiwi without peeling it. *Shudders*

Hercule Poirot · 07-02-2017 3:28pm

Graces7 wrote: »

The greatest weirdness on this thread is the folk who make comments on others like this I mean challenging the way someone eats their butties ! How weird can you get :rolleyes:

I wasn't challenging the person at all - they are free to eat their butties however they please, but it is slightly weird (or maybe different could be a better word) and it had been commented on by others at work in a generally curious manner - it wasn't like we tarred and feathered him for doing it :cool:

andekwarhola · 07-02-2017 3:42pm

Guy I know has to check that his car doors are locked even though he's just locked them with the remote central locking fob.

Sometimes he unlocks and locks them again with the fob just to be sure.

OK, it's me

BetsyEllen · 07-02-2017 3:47pm

Aglomerado wrote: »

My next door neighbour who is renting his house collects pallets and spends 20 minutes every evening chopping them up for the fire.

I don't actually find this weird at all - it's both recycling and cost effective, if I had a fire and access to lots of pallets that are going to waste, I would do the same!

I wouldn't bat an eyelid at someone doing this.

elefant · 07-02-2017 3:48pm

hoodini89 wrote: »

- My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.

I'm imagining him getting super psyched-up for the day during his morning shower, belting that line out!

Buckfast W wrote: »

Or some of the girls in work who eat a Kiwi without peeling it. *Shudders*

That's the most nutritious part!

IK09 · 07-02-2017 3:51pm

hoodini89 wrote: »

My ex-housemate was the strangest chap.

- He had a bed in his own room but he slept on a mattress on the ground.

- My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.
When finished his shower I'd hear him jump out of the shower/bath with his 2 feet together, a big thud. (Most people use one leg at a time I'm guessing when getting out.)

I honestly hurt myself laughing at this :pac:

Manzoor14 · 07-02-2017 3:59pm

Buckfast W wrote: »

Or some of the girls in work who eat a Kiwi without peeling it. *Shudders*

Heh, I just this exact same conversation during lunch there. I couldn't figure out why one wouldn't eat it!

Pyr0 · 07-02-2017 4:19pm

A lad i used to work with had a rip on the elbow of every shirt he wore to work, it wasn't the same shirt as he'd have about 4 or 5 different colours and it was always on the same arm. I never asked him about it as he always seemed like the kinda chap that would walk into the office some day and shoot the place up.

Buckfast W · 07-02-2017 4:22pm

Manzoor14 wrote: »

Heh, I just this exact same conversation during lunch there. I couldn't figure out why one wouldn't eat it!

Because it's hairy

it's a hairy piece of fruit, it has hairs, its like a caterpillar

You sir are worse than hitler

pauliebdub · 07-02-2017 4:42pm

Neighbours who live across from me are very weird. A middle aged widow and two teenage kids who were never allowed out to play on the street. They are always peering out the window at people walking past. A couple of weeks ago I noticed a young mother pushing a buggy stopped for a couple of minutes to adjust the child's buggy outside their house, a couple of minutes after she moved on they all came out to examine their car and front garden see if she had damaged anything and kept looking down the road at her. Seriously weird.

buck65 · 07-02-2017 4:43pm

When I go to the toilet or have a shower I always start interviewing myself about an imaginary sports career that I admittedly have retired from but am still plagued by an imaginary reporter asking the same questions.

draiochtanois · 07-02-2017 4:49pm

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buck65 · 07-02-2017 4:51pm

draiochtanois wrote: »

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How would that rip his colleague's shirt?

redbel05 · 07-02-2017 5:19pm

While on holidays in Alicante for a week there was a guy (in his late 60s I'd say) that would jog past our apartment wearing only shorts and flip-flops. Same time everyday.
Which would have been perfectly normal (even the super-hairy chest isn't THAT weird), except that he was jogging BACKWARDS and looking over his shoulder every 5 or 6 steps to make sure nobody was coming.

Going at a good pace he was too, and quite admirable for a guy wearing flip-flops

Manzoor14 · 07-02-2017 5:24pm

Buckfast W wrote: »

Because it's hairy it's a hairy piece of fruit, it has hairs, its like a caterpillar

You sir are worse than hitler

Hairy in the exact same as a peach though.

Pyr0 wrote: »

A lad i used to work with had a rip on the elbow of every shirt he wore to work, it wasn't the same shirt as he'd have about 4 or 5 different colours and it was always on the same arm. I never asked him about it as he always seemed like the kinda chap that would walk into the office some day and shoot the place up.

I've the exact same problem! Left elbow always wears away after a few weeks, from leaning that elbow on the desk. I've tried several different shirts, brands etc to no avail, I've loads of near perfect shirts but with no left elbows. I've started to buy and use elbow patches to extend my shirt life by a few months!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 07-02-2017 5:38pm

Admirable, but weird.

In my first ever 'proper' job, every thurs evening we'd ring in an order from the chipper for everyone. The way it was, cutting through an alleyway across a housing estate, it was faster to collect it on a bicycle than it was to drive the whole way around the block in a car.

This one fella used to go off on his bicycle to get it. Only thing was if it happened to be raining, he'd pull off his raincoat, wrap it around the food and cycle back. Food would be dry and hot but he'd end up wringing wet, and have to sit in work for another few hours with his tshirt stuck to him. :eek:

Triceratops Ballet · 07-02-2017 5:42pm

hoodini89 wrote: »

My ex-housemate was the strangest chap.

- He had a bed in his own room but he slept on a mattress on the ground.

- My bedroom was beside the bathroom. His daily showers consisted of him singing the same song (Seven Nation Army) in particular the line 'I'm going to Wichita'.
When finished his shower I'd hear him jump out of the shower/bath with his 2 feet together, a big thud. (Most people use one leg at a time I'm guessing when getting out.)

I can genuinely imagine an ex of mine doing all three of those things! he was weird, but I didn't care!!!

07-02-2017 5:42pm

Someone might tell a story at work, then this guy in the group with a big red rounded bogman's head on him will take a deep breath, shuffle on his feet and proceed to tell some boring one upmanship story, I can actually time it.

Lorelli! · 07-02-2017 5:46pm

Used to work with a girl who would bring a two litre bottle filled with diluted orange, miwadi or something, to lunch every day. It just looked odd when shed drink it from the bottle.

Wanderer2010 · 07-02-2017 5:59pm

If people could witness a human being for 24 hours uncut no holds barred from waking to sleeping then every single person on the planet would be considered "weird".

topmanamillion · 07-02-2017 6:18pm

buck65 wrote: »

When I go to the toilet or have a shower I always start interviewing myself about an imaginary sports career that I admittedly have retired from but am still plagued by an imaginary reporter asking the same questions.

Haha I do this too! Although it generally goes along the lines of I`m the manager and we started slowly in the first 20 minutes but worked our way into the game and I have to explain this to the reporter.
I wonder if its the same reporter?

buck65 · 07-02-2017 6:27pm

I've become manager too at this stage, a kind of cerebral figure like Joe Schmidt but certainly not clean cut, maybe a bit radical but for the sake of the team or whatever.
Also said reporter seems interested in me taking up swimming training and also about my reading habits. It is probably more of a day in the life kind of documentary now.

pauliebdub · 07-02-2017 6:33pm

6541 wrote: »

Someone might tell a story at work, then this guy in the group with a big red rounded bogman's head on him will take a deep breath, shuffle on his feet and proceed to tell some boring one upmanship story, I can actually time it.

I used to work with a girl like that too, horrible fat ginger creature, would always try to get one up on someone else

i e; a colleague would pass accountancy exams - she would know someone who came first in the country or won an award. Someone went on a nice holiday - she went there too and had access to a nice villa and would go out on a yacht. Someone brings a homemade cake to work - she would know someone who owned an artisan cake shop and would do the cake differently. It was all bull****.

Pyr0 · 07-02-2017 6:37pm

draiochtanois wrote: »

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It's possible yeah but the next question is why keep the shirts? Take in mind I worked with this guy for 8 years and it was always the same 4 or 5 shirts!

ablelocks · 07-02-2017 6:58pm

Kidchameleon wrote: »

I often see a guy walking around the 15 acres in the Phoenix Park chanting loudly "Woooooaaaahhhh"

living in a big white house and having to be the conscience of a nation can't be easy. If Michael D. wants to roam the Park and do some chants to help him get through it then let him off....

topmanamillion · 07-02-2017 6:58pm

Pyr0 wrote: »

It's possible yeah but the next question is why keep the shirts? Take in mind I worked with this guy for 8 years and it was always the same 4 or 5 shirts!

I think this solves the mystery:

Manzoor14 wrote: »

I've the exact same problem! Left elbow always wears away after a few weeks, from leaning that elbow on the desk. I've tried several different shirts, brands etc to no avail, I've loads of near perfect shirts but with no left elbows. I've started to buy and use elbow patches to extend my shirt life by a few months!

As for keeping the shirts if it happens after only a few weeks what's the point in buying a new shirt not to mention the expense of buying new shirts every few weeks.

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