Strange things people do

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 ! ?

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.

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.

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????

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!

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.

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!

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.

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)

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

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!

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

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

Yorki

Nadateturb.... Yuk. ??

Yorki why Yuk?

Great thread Tanith

Yorki I get it now - the egg on porridge! Sorry I forgot about that post. I thought you were referring to display towels post.

My Mother always had the clocks in the house set half an hour fast.Apparently it was so that we were never late for anything!

I am not going to look up the cheese and ham sandwich, prefer to remain ignorant. My first though was that the girl must have been an Orthodox Jew. (mixing meat and dairy is not kosher.)

Thanks nadateturbe I’m really enjoying it aren’t folk funny?

JackyB

I am not going to look up the cheese and ham sandwich, prefer to remain ignorant. My first though was that the girl must have been an Orthodox Jew. (mixing meat and dairy is not kosher.)

But ham wouldn't be used by a Jewish café/restaurant, would it?

you can buy cheese and ham sandwiches in M & S , Boots, and supermarkets. Whats the problem?

My DH every day!! Only joking really.

Fanny. There is a pub in Gornal called ‘The Pig on the Wall’ I believe? Gornal is quite a community, someone I once met was from there as were her whole family, she used to joke saying that you had to have a passport to enter or leave Gornal!

tictacnana

I was at the Birmingham Arts Centre on a trip from college in Manchester. We went to the cafe there for lunch. There was a queue and ,when it was the turn of my friend and I , I asked for a cheese and ham sandwiches. The girl behind the counter yelped, burst into tears and ran to the room at the back of the counter. She returned, seconds later with an older woman who asked what I’d said to the girl- who was still weeping. I repeated my sandwich order and was told to watch my mouth or get out. Any ideas ?

When was this tictac?
I'm completely flummoxed.
The 'rude' meanings for cheese and ham sandwich are a red herring.
According to Urban Dictionary, from where most of the dubious definitions on the internet originate; cheese and ham sandwich means variously oral sex, intercourse or masturbation.
None of these are in common usage or even particularly shocking.
Furthermore it would be more than commonplace to refering to and handling cheese, ham and bread in a café.
To have offended one member of staff is unfortunate and a mystery; but two? To the extent that they shriek; burst into tears, and publicly admonish you for using bad language and threaten to chuck you out???
I don't get it.

Btw, what did you end up eating op?

A woman who used to live next door to my daughter would never, ever keep anything she'd cooked until the next day. So, if she made too much lasagne, for example, she'd call over the fence and ask my daughter if she wanted some, otherwise it would just be binned. She had a freezer, and my daughter asked her why she didn't just portion it up and freeze it for later. 'Oh no, I couldn't do that' she'd say, with a disgusted look on her face, 'I have to use everything up on the day I make it, or it gets thrown out.' Even cakes - she'd make a Victoria sandwich, she and her daughter would have a slice each, and she'd give the rest away to neighbours, or bin it.