Originally Posted by FM Lover:
“Every soap does this. A character gets a letter they don't want anyone else to see. What do they do? Shread it? No, they put it in the kitchen rubbish bin right at the top so the next person that opens it sees it straight away. Same goes with pregnancy test kits.”
... and they leave their mobile phones lying around (nobody has any compunction looking into another person's text box or calls archive, or even sending spurious messages on the owner's behalf).
They also close their laptops without logging out, so why are they surprised when some other busybody/nosey parker finds out what they've been up to? At least set the thing to automatically delete browsing history on closure - that way some secrets might remain just that .. secret!
And while we're on the subject of things that are just so stupid ... how about all the food and drink that goes to waste? Dinner is served, usually in the kitchen; someone gets a call and immediately ups and leaves the table, whereupon the plate of food just gets shovelled into the pedal bin. Shocking waste.
Drinks in the pub too .. someone orders a round and, as in the case with food, they get a message or a phone call and things are then so urgent that they haven't the time to finish their drink before leaving the pub there and then. And these are people who can least afford to be drinking in a pub anyway, let alone leaving a full glass!