Bad Habits?
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
United States
January 11, 2007 10:41am CST
My ex had a really bad habit. Whenever we went to visit a someone, he would walk to their refrigerator and look inside it. He did this several times. Nobody thought to question him about this behavior. I thought it rude and brought it up to him on several occasions. I am not sure if he still has this bad habit or not. I just though it an odd one.
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@sugarbritches (289)
• United States
11 Jan 07
Oh My! That is a bad habit! Lucky he did not come to my house. I would have said something. People do let their kids do that all the time over here and I always say something. Its so rude!
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Jan 07
My kids will do this when they come to my house. My husband hates it and goes off on them. That irks me when he goes off. Family is family.
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@suedarr (2382)
• Canada
11 Jan 07
That is a weird habit. It reminds me of people who peek inside other people's medicine cabinets.
I do admit that I have checked out people's book shelves before if I'm seated say in a room with them. This does give good insight sometimes into a person.
Cheers!
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
11 Jan 07
I close my shower curtain because if you do not when the curtain is wet, the bottom will stick together and over time begin to mold. That is the horrible ugly stains at the bottom of the curtain. So, as a prevention, close the shower curtain when it is wet and the moisture will roll off or evaporate and not cause mild. :)
Now that you know why they should be closed, does that help to not look behind them?
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@auburndreams (838)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Have you watched that horror movie with the shower scene too many times? Bates Hotel I think?
@vivasuzi (4127)
• United States
11 Jan 07
I think it's weird to peek in the fridge without being invited to...
But as for medicine cabinets, well I do not do that but I DO peek behind shower currents or in bathroom closets. I have this fear that someone is hiding in there to scare me, so I always check. I don't get why people close shower curtains anyway!
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
11 Jan 07
How horrifiying!!! LOL If he would walk into my house and do this, I would be sure to ask him if he were looking for something and then insist that whatever it might be, I would let him know if I had it.
He obviously did not have someone address him when he was in the act of looking through their fridge. Because if the person living there would have addressed it, he would not be doing it again. But if so happen that he did do it again, I would certainly (as the person of the house) tell him that he is not welcome if he insists on going through my fridge as if it were his own home!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Jan 07
He wouldn't even take anything out, just stand there, open the door, look inside and close the door.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Jan 07
When we are at our friends houses and he did this, they never said a word. When we are at his families homes, they would ask him if he was hungry.
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@kaushikdash (449)
• India
12 Jan 07
yes i think all the people of the worlds are having bad habbits
@sunshinecup (7871)
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11 Jan 07
LOL, I was just thinking if he did that to my fridge, I think it would have broke him from that habbit! I have stuff in there that has now gained the ability to tell me how it's day has been! LOL
That is a strange habbit he had/has. Didn't any one ever look at them and tell him to get out of there?
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Jan 07
Only his sister. She told him like it is.
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@shywolf (4514)
• United States
11 Jan 07
That does seem like an odd one! *laugh* I wonder why he did it. I can see doing it out of curiosity, but I would not have the guts to just walk up and do it with the people of the household standing there looking at me! *laugh*
I'm sure that I have my share of bad habits. I talk out loud to myself too much, lol! Umm.. I have to have my hands busy. I'm too much of a multi-tasker not to be doing 2-3 things at once! And there are more, I know.. Just can't think of them all right now! *laugh*
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@seenoreen (559)
• Philippines
12 Jan 07
Yeah, I thought it was odd too. It's like a bad and odd habit of him to just open the fridge that belong to other people without permission
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
11 Jan 07
My older sister and her husband and kids are always getting into my refrigerator and food cabinets without asking when ever they come over even for a few minutes. They do this at everyones house I assume because they do it at all of the families. They also just grab and eat stuff without asking no matter if it was to be your dinner or not it ticks my husband off and he hates that they do that he sys they have no respect for other peoples homes. We do not go to there house and get into there things and stuff and I have said things but it seems it goes in one ear and goes straight out the other. The only one who listened to what I said was her 13 year old son who told his sister that she should ask before she gets in my frig and her response was "idiot, this is our aunts house." And he still doesn't get in our frig without asking now or our cabinets. I think that they do this because one they feel comfortable and at home in our house.
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@clownfish (3269)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Hi! Wow, I've never heard of that before. I can't believe no one said anything when their refrigerator was "inspected." I probably would have said something, if only to offer him something to eat or drink. This does seem odd, but, it takes all kinds!
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Was it a habit, or just nosiness? It was rude for sure. I would never think of doing such a thing in anyones home, not even family without asking.
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@enchantedemerald (454)
• United States
11 Jan 07
I would never go into someone's home and just go look into their fridge for no apparent reason. I think that is rude and not accetable behavior in a friend's home. You said he just opens it up, looks in, does not remove anything, and then closes the door--so has anyone asked him the reasoning behind his actions? Is he concerned that these folks might not have enough food for their family. The reason I bring this up is because I have known people who have told me they have enough food and they really don't. They have been embarassed to speak the truth. These are good folks that are fallen on some financial hardships and I have threatened and jokingly said "better tell the truth because I will go look in the fridge". Hmmm I just thought of something I remember when I was little wondering if that light in the refridgerator really went out when I closed the door. Maybe your husband is still on his trek to find the one light that doesn't go off. (lol)
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I will go with the last statement....makes it funny.
@pebbles724 (642)
• United States
11 Jan 07
I agree with you. I think it is very rude to open someone's refrigerator that you are visiting. I don't even do that at my sister or brothers homes. If someone tells you, "I have some iced tea in the fridge, go ahead and help yourself" that is ok, but otherwise I would never do such a thing.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
12 Jan 07
If I am visiting my family I will ask them if I can get a drink. They usually tell me to help myself.
@franken_ind (141)
• Ukraine
12 Jan 07
yea,that's not good at all.. i guess he change cos my elder brother used to do that,but with advises,he stopped.
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@rajee2007 (331)
• India
12 Jan 07
i hate bad hoppies because it does gives happy to others
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@sunrisekn (1466)
• United States
12 Jan 07
That is an odd habit. We have a sinlge friend that comes over to our house probably 5 out of 7 days of the week. We invite him, I feel babd because he lives alone and doesn't really have any friends. Anyways, he always walks in the door with his hands clenched. I feel like he's coming in to beat the crap out of us. It drives me crazy. He doesn't even realize that he's doing it because when I ask him why his fists are clenched he says Oh I didn't know that I was doing that. My bad habit is drinking my drinks without ice. I was raised in a European household and we rarely put ice in our drinks. Even now, I'm 36, I still don't. That drives my husband crazy!
@stailgate (2363)
• United States
13 Jan 07
I would find it rude if it was not someone who was over to my house all the time. However, I see my family like everyday, and we either are at their house or they are at mine, and we help each other to the fridge, and the pantry for food. Or anything else that we need. We are an open family like that and do not question it or pay attention. We share all the time without thinking twice, on everything. Wheather they stop over to talk and go threw the fridge, or just pop over for some laundry soap. I don't mind.
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
11 Jan 07
That is very rude, glad that never happened to me.If someone would do that in my house I would say,what are you looking for, did you not eat before you got hear.lol
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@maru_047in (1007)
• India
11 Jan 07
Ya definitely it is one of the bad habit one should not have ie going and searching things in any of our friends or relations place. As they ll think bad about our manners so v need to make him understand in the way he gets it and i think so by now he might have understood and he would have learnt a lesson.
@cjsmom (1423)
• United States
12 Jan 07
That would've driven me nuts! I wouldn't have wanted to go with him to anybody's house. And, as bold as I am now-a-days, I would let him know that if we went over to someone's house, that he'd better not do that. In fact, ever again!
What grips me is when people come to your house and pry into your personals in the bathroom.
I had what I thought at the time in high school, a best friend. She stole a ruby ring from bathroom that my mother had passed down to me.
I was so distraught when I thought I had lost it (to tell the truth, I had my suspicions). So, when an occasion came up to use her bathroom at a BBQ we had at her place, I excused myself and as I was about to walk in bathroom, I happened to glance in her bedroom and saw a ring holder on her dresser by the door.
Sure enough, there it was, right on top. I took it and never said anything to her.
Like an idiot I invited her back over one day soon after and like a fool, I absentmindedly left it in bathroom again.
Once again it ended up missing and I know she took it.
I can't remember how it ended up except to say that I no longer have my grandmother's ring.
Just makes you wonder about people some times.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I had a family member that took some jewelry of mine. She wore it in front of me. I demanded she give it back. She did. She was upset with me for a long time, but got over it. If she doesn't give the ring back, report it to the authorities. Stealing is wrong and she obviously doesn't give a care about your feelings or she wouldn't have taken it in the first or second place.