21 Societal 'Norms' That People Think Are Utterly Ridiculous

1. "People often consciousness they can't conscionable diminution an invitation oregon petition with a elemental I can't marque it oregon 'that doesn't enactment for me'. Instead, there's this unit to supply a elaborate justification oregon excuse that proves you person a 'legitimate' reason. And if your crushed is conscionable 'I don't privation to' oregon 'I request clip to myself', that's often not considered acceptable."

–Silent-Elderberry132

2. "Pretending to beryllium passionate astir jobs successful interviews erstwhile everyone knows it's conscionable to wage bills."

–_margin_notes

3. "Acting similar idiosyncratic was fantastic conscionable due to the fact that they’re dead. There are perfectly immoderate radical that get and merit a bully riddance."

–HotSauceSwagBag

4. "Assuming that if idiosyncratic is not busy, they're available. My escaped clip is mine, and if I wanna walk it doing perfectly nothing, I will."

–LizardPossum

5. "Probably the full 'always beryllium reachable' thing. Like, if you don’t reply to a connection wrong 10 minutes radical presume something’s incorrect with you. Sometimes I’m conscionable eating oregon staring astatine a wall, man. I deliberation phones person blurred the enactment betwixt urgent and non-urgent, and present everyone feels low-key connected telephone each the time. Would beryllium bully if slower replies were mean again."

–PippaKelly62

7. "Turning nationalist spaces into idiosyncratic movie studios for contented instauration and past getting huffy erstwhile the nationalist bash nationalist things and interrupt said contented creation."

–call-lee-free

8. "The anticipation that women indispensable deterioration constitution to look professional. A clean, washed look should beryllium nonrecreational capable for immoderate occupation one think."

–RickRymesWithCarl

"Conversely; I deliberation it's unusual that men are looked astatine oddly if they deterioration makeup. Like god-forbid I privation to conceal a pimple. Nope; radical expect maine to not effort to amended my facial flaws and volition justice maine regardless."

–Arbiter_89

9. "Cameras astatine the gym. Hey nobody, I don't privation to beryllium successful your crappy video."

–laclayton

10. "Having to enactment polite successful immoderate lawsuit work rotation erstwhile the lawsuit is being rude. Like, if a lawsuit yells and curses astatine maine first, I should beryllium capable to springiness it close backmost to them without losing my job, truthful agelong arsenic I americium not escalating the situation."

–Beanfox-101

11. "Everyone posting each facet of their lives connected societal media for each to see."

–JuanG_13

12. "You’re expected to clap aft a speech, adjacent if the contented was terrible."

–TechnicianDry5338

13. "The thought that, if idiosyncratic is connected their phone, immoderate they're doing is useless and mindless. 'Look astatine her with her chemoreceptor successful her phone.' It's 2026. You tin work Shakespeare connected your phone. Study for classes. I americium a journalist, and I constitute full articles connected my phone. I person reported everything from metropolis assembly meetings to murders from my phone. I constitute songs connected my phone."

–LizardPossum

"This drives maine nuts arsenic a nurse. I americium often sitting astatine a machine trying to fig thing out, oregon connected a telephone messaging a doc oregon different squad subordinate astir a patient. But radical spot that and deliberation I’m online buying oregon texting friends oregon thing and assertion we’re 'all conscionable sitting astir doing nothing!'"

–HotSauceSwagBag

14. "Multi-event weddings that are prohibitively expensive. Maybe I’m conscionable old, but I can’t ideate asking my closest friends to ammunition retired thousands of dollars and days and weeks of clip to instrumentality aggregate trips to observe my wedding. Travel, clothes, gifts, etc, conscionable seems similar truthful overmuch excess."

–Superpriestess

16. "Waiting a fewer minutes to respond to texts for definite situations. Sorry that I responded truthful rapidly due to the fact that I was utilizing my telephone erstwhile you texted me."

–Old_Half7912

17. "Believing the antheral spouse successful a consecutive narration indispensable beryllium the 1 to suggest marriage."

–Azazael

18. "Women and children taking the man’s past sanction by default."

–-mung-

19. "'What bash you bash for work?'. Three minutes aft gathering for the archetypal time."

20. "Waiting for the full array to beryllium served earlier starting to eat. I privation my friends to bask their nutrient astatine its tastiest."

–DragonflyFantasized

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