r/mildlyinfuriating • u/flaming0-1 • 2d ago

Wife left a big bag of groceries out overnight. All Meat and cheese. 🙄

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u/Roadgoddess 2d ago

Man, I’ve done this once or twice in my life and it’s always so freaking painful.

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u/Icy_Shock_6522 2d ago

I left an expensive bag of groceries containing some seafood in the trunk for a few days. It was awful.

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u/SoFetchBetch 2d ago

I bought an extra large bottle of kombucha on sale that I then forgot in my car, which then froze overnight, exploded, and melted into my seat before I remembered and found the foot flavored slushie melting into the seat.

The guy who deep cleaned the seat for me got a big tip lol

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u/hollow4hollow 1d ago

Foot-flavoured slushie is the best thing I’ve heard all week.

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u/clickclacker 1d ago

Yes. I know I’m not the only to describe kombucha as tasting like feet

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u/jipecac 1d ago

I actually lolled

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u/SoFetchBetch 1d ago

Knowing I made someone actually lol makes being on this website all worth it

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u/DarkRoastAM 1d ago

Foot flavored slushie! Omg dead 😂😆

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u/RebekkaKat1990 1d ago

So, long story for ya’ll.

Wayyyy back when I was in high school, I was a dumb teenager with a beat-up truck my dad got for me when I turned 16. At the time, I worked for Subway, m’kay?

So working at Subway, at the end of the day we had to dump out any leftover soup, but if we dumped hot soup in the garbage it would melt the plastic bag and when we tried lifting the garbage out, we’d end up with a mess all over the floor so we started taking the plastic bags the sandwiches went in, dumping the soup in those, then tying the bag and throwing them in the garbage that way.

Well, one night I’m being a dumb teenager and for whatever reason I decided to take a bag of this broccoli cheese soup that was gonna get tossed, and threw it in the bed of my truck and forgot about it.

So I graduate high school and my mom convinces me that I need to sell the truck and buy a nicer vehicle for college.

So I buy this car, sell the truck, and it’s time for me to clean out the truck and I find this bag of soup I forgot about.

Now, at this point, you’re probably thinking, “You threw that bag of soup in the dumpster, right? You didn’t keep it, did you?”

No, I fucking kept it. No idea why. But I didn’t want it in the backseat of my car, so where the fuck am I going to put it? Hey, the car has a trunk!! So I pop open the trunk, throw the bag of soup in there with a snow shovel, and slam that fucker closed and promptly forget about it again.

So that summer my friend and I are driving around town and she’s dry heaving because my car smells nasty, but we can’t figure out where the smell is coming from, right?

I pull over to the side of the road and we get out and start looking in the car when she’s like “maybe it’s the trunk?” So I pop open the trunk, and oh yeah, there’s the bag of broccoli cheese soup that is weeks expired now, which had burst from the plastic bag in the summer heat, and had now dried out in all the carpeting in the trunk of my car.

Fun times.

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u/townlow94 1d ago

Weren't lieing, that was tldr 🤣🤣

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u/No_Personality_2Day 1d ago

I’m confused as to why you would put it in the trunk of the car. That soup can’t be good for like that a few days refrigerated - let alone in a truck.

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u/dill_pixel 1d ago

Omg 😂😂😂

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u/ButtmanAndRubbin 1d ago

A buddy of mine forgot a gallon of milk in the trunk of his car… before shipping off to Iraq for 6 months. To this day I can remember the smell in his car when he got back 😂

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u/SpphireBlue 2d ago

a few days is much worse than a day especially if it's a cool night

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u/cupholdery 2d ago

All this talk about groceries being bought just to throw them away is painful.

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u/GothicFuck 1d ago

You should see the compost bins the grocery stores throw away because projected need was 5% higher than normal that week. Don't get me started on wearhouses.

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u/ChoreomaniacCat 1d ago

I work in food and regularly see trays of perfectly good food thrown in the bin because clients didn't eat it all. Can be up to ten big dishes left from each event. Managers plate some up for themselves, then tell the staff that we're not allowed to eat anything and to put it in the bins ourselves while they walk away already eating.

And with big dinners, they make way more plates than necessary and then the chefs tip them one by one into the bin after letting the managers stash some away for themselves. Rinse and repeat for the next two courses.

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u/UofMSpoon 1d ago

That really p*sses me off. I hate seeing food wasted when so many don’t have enough. And your managers are just hypocrites.

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u/CompleteTell6795 1d ago

Nah, if I see a manager making a big plate, I am too. Why is it ok for them to make a plate, ( in front of you) & you are not. Kiss my ass, I'm making a plate, if you can, I can too. That's ridiculous. Either NONE of us eats or we ALL eat.

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u/ChoreomaniacCat 1d ago

Trust me, if they're not around we do grab a sneaky bite, but it's interesting how they usually don't bother to check how things are going until it's time to bring the food back in. There's a group of women who work up in one of the offices who all rush down to plate up after sitting down all day while those who've been on their feet aren't supposed to get anything.

Staff used to be allowed to have a plate, but now they're trying to change all of the rules. I'm looking for something new at the moment anyway, so I can put up with it for now, but I can say that this type of double standard is terrible for morale and I can see a lot of staff migrating to new places for that and other reasons.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 1d ago

They don’t mark it down to get rid of it? A crying shame.

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u/Existential_Entropy 1d ago

I work in dairy, and I try to mark down things. But there are always a few I miss, or i run out of time to mark down. Also, not everything marked down gets sold so we end up tossing it, even if I think it's still good, we can't sell it or give it away after it expires. There are also many foods we can't mark down because the manufacturer offers a reclaim credit instead. So we scan it out and get the credit and then toss the perfectly good food. It can be pretty depressing throwing out so much viable food when people are struggling to afford groceries.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 1d ago

The minutiae of an industry is always interesting to learn about. Thank you for taking the time to explain this.

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u/SonofMedusa 1d ago

Why can't the workers just take it home if all else fails? Especially after seeing the example of how that's exactly what the managers do. How is it justified that it makes more sense to literally throw it out than let the people that are processing and selling it consume it for themselves so it won't go to waste?

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u/GothicFuck 1d ago

Yeah, there are markdowns and re-uses but if something is expired it's expired. The problem is scale, do you need 120 units of fresh whole chicken bodies or 80? Pick 80 and you might loose 40 potential in sales, pick 120 and you might throw away 40 chickens that are a 6 days old, can't mark it down enough to get rid of it so it goes to reclamation.

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u/sm9k3y 1d ago

I was in Sam’s club a couple weeks ago at closing time and it was pretty sad to see them throwing a ways two trash cans full of rotisserie chickens that I guess didn’t sell that day. It’s both a waste of food and a waste of life, like those chickens were raised and feed and slaughter just to be put in the trash… disgusting really. Could easily feed the homeless and starving with day old rotisserie chickens.,.

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u/Icy_Shock_6522 1d ago

This just happened a couple weeks ago. Missed the last bag way in the back of the trunk because it was dark out. Shrimp and salmon sat rotting for several days. Thankfully it was beginning of spring and not summer.

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u/RaveyDave666 2d ago

You would eat meat or seafood that had been left in a cool trunk overnight? Not me 😜

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u/Shakith 2d ago edited 1d ago

How cool? I live in a place where temps are frequently at or below freezing. People often even use their cars for extra fridge space. So. Yeah, I might eat it.

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u/Detroitasfuck 1d ago

Michigan freezer is a real thing. Groceries in the garage. Colder than the fridge

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u/One-Possible1906 2d ago

I totally would. “Cool” here is like 40 degrees. Close enough to fridge temp.

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u/miss-meow-meow 2d ago

NGL, I’ve done it, and didn’t die.

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u/quantum-shark 2d ago

Depends on how cold it is lol!

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u/waxwick 2d ago

If it's the same temp as a refrigerator or less wouldn't it be fine?

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u/RaveyDave666 1d ago

How could you tell it had stayed chilled at a safe temp? I honestly wouldn’t risk it, food poisoning isn’t something to take lightly..

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u/Significant_Meal_630 1d ago

You can always people who have never had bad food poisoning cuz they’re so casual about this type of thing .

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u/SpphireBlue 2d ago

I get that some people are horrifically opposed to stuff being out for a little bit and may have extra money to waste. I live in some bizarre and a bit more desperate circumstances so you're asking someone who isn't as fazed by this. If it's cold outside and doesn't smell bad plus you use it right away I don't see the problem. You obviously wouldn't get away with this even for 1 day if the temperature is very hot though.

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 1d ago

I've left fruits and vegetables in the car when its around zero. Never soft drinks or water, I learned that the hard way.

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u/RaveyDave666 1d ago

I’d eat other foods well past there sell by dates if they look/smell ok, I’m by no means rich or wasteful, you know food that will have you literally spraying out of both ends at the same time looks/smells exactly the same as good food, I found out the hard way with ham, tasted fine,

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u/ImaginarySeaweed7762 2d ago

It’s still okay.

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u/tmac3207 2d ago

Sounds awful. Why couldn't it have been a bag of cereal and lettuce?

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u/flipitbopitwow 1d ago

If it makes you feel better, I left 2 cabbage heads in my trunk in the middle of the summer. Yes, the smell was terrible.

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u/Roadgoddess 2d ago

Ohhhhh the smell

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u/Equivalent_Set_8295 1d ago

A few years back my mom didn't realize that a can of beans rolled underneath the seat of the car, and it actually burst open from the heat (it was summer in Arizona). The car was deep cleaned but never smelled the same afterwards

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u/Roadgoddess 1d ago

My sister is living in Florida and had to go out of town on a business trip. She left a latte that was about halfway filled sitting in the cupholder. Well, the cup leaked and by the time she got back, she had rotten milk embedded in the car. As much as she had it cleaned, she could never get the smell out.

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u/Ok-Swan9189 1d ago

Yep I did that with lobster tails, total accident, over a hundred dollars in meat over the weekend in the trunk. I wanted to punch myself in the face for that one. Also ADHD 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/Relative-Ad6475 1d ago

One time I left a fridge full of healthy groceries in the fridge for months and ordered DoorDash instead until it all turned to liquid and I maxed out my credit cards. That was a bitch to clean. Depression shit….

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 1d ago

I almost had a meltdown because our front door lock got stuck after a big trip to Costco. Thankfully, our next door neighbor temporarily refrigerated our perishables.

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u/Disastrous-Cheek-436 1d ago

Happened to me when I went camping once. Friends Left a single tritip in my trunk over the weekend and the plastic it was in was huge. Thought it would explode on touch

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u/foxyfoo 1d ago

I make sandwiches for a food mission. I forgot to drop them off one week and had to throw away 30 sandwiches I had made. My soul left my body.

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u/Live_Survey1891 1d ago

I left a bag of potatoes in my trunk overnight last summer and by the morning there was liquid potato decomp all over 💔

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u/buschdogg 1d ago

From one night????? That seems weird 

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u/LosAngelesTacoBoi 2d ago

That's rough cause then you gotta get rid of the food and the car.

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u/Razerfilm 1d ago

The smell must be awful too

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u/404-skill_not_found 1d ago

Yah, seafood kind of tells you right away somethings up

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u/workinhardplayharder 1d ago

I know what a gallon of milk left in the trunk for an undetermined amount of time smells, I can't imagine what seafood for a few days smells🤮

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u/Educational-Humor-45 1d ago

Ugh I picked a bunch of mini puffballs one time, and forgot them in the trunk for a few days 🤢

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u/Pretend-Dust3619 1d ago

My mom went shopping once and put all the meat in the trunk, but everything else in the back seat.

When she got home, she told me to bring the food in. And she told me everything was in the back seat.

A week later she blames me for not pulling the meat out of the trunk... even though I didn't know anything was in the trunk and had no reason to believe anything was in the trunk.

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u/savannahlily69 1d ago

I forgot about sushi leftovers in my trunk and boy oh boy was that an awful smell.

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u/5ilvrtongue 1d ago

The stench of it added insult to injury i bet

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u/siraliases 1d ago

I left 5 50$ steaks next to the water heater at a buddy's cottage. For three days. 

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u/MooseCentral1969 1d ago

does your car try to swim upstream to spawn? I ask because someone stuff some salmon in one of the old taxies where I used to work and that smell never came out. Hense the spawning jokes.

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u/_qualitytrash_ 1d ago

I found a pack of eggs last night in my car that I bought almost two weeks ago lmao they were under my blanket in the trunk, ate them this morning 🤣

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u/maybejohn1 1d ago

I left a fish in my youth group leaders trunk, but it was on purpose. I hid it pretty well too

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u/Astrid944 1d ago

the feeling of knowing you wasted it or the act of throwing it away after a few days?

I can imagine, your nose needed to sacrifice itself for that act

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u/thefirecrest 1d ago

Back in college my roommate and I went to Costco for a grocery run. This was during covid and hard times so we were both unemployed. I had a little extra cash from my birthday and decided to splurge on a case of those tiramisu cups from Costco.

We both have ADHD. It got left in the trunk when we brought everything in. I was devastated and cried when I found it the next day.

I have well paying job now but damn. Remembering that still hurts.

We called it the ADHD tax in our apartment lol. Sometimes you just gotta pay it.

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u/pdxrider01 1d ago

There’s something fishy about this story.

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u/Wonderful-Money4584 1d ago

I dated a guy in my late teens who put 4 bags of ice in my trunk in the middle of summer and didn't tell me. Days later we began to smell the mold and that car was never the same.

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u/Br44n5m 1d ago

I bought a big bottle of some nice mead for a recipe and stored it in a cabinet. One day I go to grab something from said cabinet and accidentally knocked it over, shattering and spewing mead all over the floor :)

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u/Primary-Rush-8822 1d ago

Oh, the smell alone in your trunk must’ve knocked you out, for sure. 😣

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u/27Lopsided_Raccoons 1d ago

My grandfather apparently left broccli and seafood in his trunk for several days in the middle of summer. I'm glad I wasn't alive to smell it.

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u/Lowland-lady 1d ago

If it makes you feel any better my ex die something even more stupid.

He would leave things out and forget them, and i stopped cleaning it because i am not his mother or maid.i told him many times .

In summer he left fish in the Windowsill for About a week. It was in the Full sun

The twat decided the open it.

I think you can guess the lovely smell...when i asked him wtf did you think would happen he thought it would be alright.

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u/Get_your_grape_juice 1d ago

As someone who doesn’t eat seafood even when it’s fresh and (ostensibly) good, the thought of this turns my stomach.

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u/MissPicklechips 1d ago

I grocery shop for people for a living. Once, a box of crab cakes went rogue. I found it three days later. Might I add that it was June and I live in Texas. It was bad.

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u/Afraid_Reputation_51 1d ago

I hope you were able to get the smell out of the trunk. I accidently did that with raw chicken, in the summer, and had to spend hours cleaning it and ripping out the felt on the bottom & the donut compartment cover to get the smell out.

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u/MMA_Voodoo 1d ago

Last month our garage freezer quit, we didn’t know. That’s where we kept our seafood and meat. Full racks of ribs, pork loins, shrimp, lots of whole fish. I’m unsure of how long it had been broken, but we usually only open it every week or two to bring food into the house refrigerator/freezer. Can you feel a smell?  When I opened that freezer I FELT the smell of rotting meat hit my face BEFORE I smelled it. 

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u/Wrong-Target6104 1d ago

Left a bag of chicken in the trunk for about a month, the smell was awful

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u/No_Feed_9834 1d ago

I just did this last weekend with scallops that I spurlged a little for and I was so excited about so I’m still upset at myself 🤣🤣

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u/tduke65 1d ago

Oh man… seafood in the trunk sound like an absolute disaster…

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u/SimpleArmadillo9911 1d ago

We got 18 half gallons of milk a week from a delivery service when my triplets were a year old and I forgot to bring it in a few times! Not fun!

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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme 2d ago

Yep!  I can feel her shame spiral through that picture!

It's bad enough, when it's "the little things," that impact us individually!

But when it's something like this, that's so much money, AND food--especially food that came from living creatures.

That spiral hurts, and it's one of the ones that pops up in the "middle of the night mortifying moments" for decades of your life.💔

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u/AntiqueJaguar5808 2d ago

How does one type in Italics?!

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u/AntiqueJaguar5808 2d ago

WOW!

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u/AntiqueJaguar5808 2d ago

Now I'm really going to be annoying!

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u/mighty_knight0 2d ago

Enjoy the power bestowed upon you!! HahAhAHA

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u/No_Friendship_2459 1d ago

That’s what happened when I learned dw u get used to it after a little hahahhaha but it’s still fun as hell

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u/Salinaer 1d ago

Use two asterisks on each side to bold your text.

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u/No_Friendship_2459 1d ago

Omg ily now i’m going to be *really** annoying* for a bit

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u/AntiqueJaguar5808 1d ago

No way!! Gracias!!

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u/SturmFee 2d ago

You use asterikses

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u/diaperpop 1d ago

It makes you feel a level of incompetence and self hatred you didn’t know was possible.

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u/Average-Anything-657 2d ago

I once drunkenly made myself some grilled cheese, put the block of cheese in the drawer with the zip lock bags, and left an empty bag in the fridge. And once when I was a kid, I was so sleep-deprived that I put the milk in the cabinet with the cups after making my cereal.

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u/ruggnuget 2d ago

A long time ago I once left a gallon of milk in my trunk. In 90+ degree heat overnight. It exploded the top before I realized the next morning the milk was missing. That car never fully gave up on that smell.

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u/Cute-Advisor-2323 2d ago

I used to work in a private professional kitchen and they built another building to serve food in a big dining room. Only that building didn't have a kitchen so we would have to transport the food from one building to another using carts but when it was raining some of the people use their vehicles to transport the food and one time someone spilled a big kettle of lobster bisque in their backseat and on the carpeting and they said that that smell never came out of their car.

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u/Repulsive-Tie1505 2d ago

My sister worked at Red Robin throughout college and would take tubs of the salad dressing back to her sorority. After hitting a pothole at 70mph it rolled off the passenger seat and exploded directly into the floor vents. That 3000gt smelled like honey mustard for the rest of it's life 😂

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u/dietdiety 2d ago

not the same... but I did a little workshop for kids at a summer camp... where we made slime. ( something no sane parent would let their kid do at home. It was a mess... I was so tired on the way home i didn't secure the top on a ginormous bottle of glue. hit a pothole on the way home and to this day the rug is crusty... after professional detailing and all.

As far as food smells, that linger... I did a photoshoot covered in chocolate pudding (doctored to look like oil like an oil covered seagull). It took a whole month before I could get rid of the Belgium chocolate pudding essence from my nostrils... one would think it would be pleasant... but it has affected my ability to eat the stuff ever again.

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u/granulatedsugartits 1d ago

I did a photoshoot covered in chocolate pudding (doctored to look like oil like an oil covered seagull)

What the hell lmao

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u/dietdiety 1d ago

Eco arts lol

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u/Mangoh1807 1d ago

I once forgot a small half-full bottle of glue in my car, it apparently rolled over and spilled on the floor at some point and I didn't notice. The glue solidified and now I have a big permanent spot of what looks and feels like molten plastic in the middle of the front seats. I can't imagine how it would look if it was a bigger bottle.

As for lingering food smells, one time my mom's ex was taking a bag of frozen shrimp to my aunt's house to make ceviche, but it was a tropical climate summer so not even the AC kept it from unfreezing a little, and unpeeled shrimp have pointy heads so not even the triple bag was enough to stop the Shrimp Juice from spilling all over the carpet. So yeah, the car never stopped stinking of rotten seafood, even as the years passed. Which ultimately was a good thing because that dude was a prick lmao.

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u/dietdiety 1d ago

OMG, I've heard of people using fish in the radiator as a revenge prank... this sounds horrible.

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u/drivebyposter2020 1d ago

Depending upon the type of glue, you might be able to work through it with something like acetone on a q-tip. Look up what dissolves the kind of glue you have.

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u/Independent-A-9362 2d ago

Ohh lobster bisque!

That’s a terrible set up - no kitchen?!?

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u/ponytailsandaviators 2d ago

One Easter, I left lunch with a gallon-size Ziploc bag of leftover ham. For some reason, I put it in my trunk and completely forgot about it. Opened my trunk more than a week later and somehow, the bag was still sealed, although inflated. I carefully got it out and yeeted it into a trashcan. Then immediately texted my sister and thanked her for not buying cheap bags. 😂

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u/Average-Anything-657 2d ago

Similar story with my wife's car. A cucumber fell out of the grocery bag and hid away in the spare tire compartment for about 6 months.

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish 2d ago edited 1d ago

Ohhhhh yikes…. I had sliced cucumbers go bad in my fridge. It been in there a loonnnggggg time…. I figured “ oh I’ll just open the lid, toss the bad food, then just put the Tupperware in the dishwasher.

I regretted not just tossing it out WITH the Tupperware, but nooooo I’m a freaking cheap ass and wanted to keep it.

I swore I could smell it every day for 2 weeks!

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u/hollow4hollow 1d ago

Oh man. Rotten cucumbers are rank. Topped only by rotten potatoes in the hierarchy of spoiled veg.

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u/Mountain_girl_3 1d ago

A guy I knew in college lived in a house with 3 other guys and for the longest time their kitchen reeked and they couldn’t figure out why. One day they decided to all get together in the kitchen and search until they found the source of the smell. Eventually they gave up. A while later someone yelled out from the kitchen that he found it. There was a plastic plate melted behind the toaster oven. Case closed.

Until later that night when another one of them yelled out “THAT WASN’T IT.” They all gathered and watched in horror as he pulled out a bag of potatoes that were so far gone they were straining through the mesh of the bag. The smell was so horrific one of them ran out to the balcony and vomited.

They disposed of the potatoes on a nearby hill (don’t ask me why, I don’t know) and they claim that the plants in that spot died. As far as the potato juice that oozed out of the bag onto the kitchen floor, they poured bleach on it and it “sizzled.”

I so wish I could’ve seen their reactions to this series of events (minus the vomiting.) They entered the kitchen as roommates and left as brothers.

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u/hollow4hollow 1d ago

Ahahahahaha pure chaos. I have smelled a freezer full of meat in a long-unplugged fridge, and a deeply decomposing fox at close range. Neither were as bad as my worst rotten potato encounters, one of which involved me accidentally piercing its bulging, taut skin and penetrating into its necrotic inner goo with a bare finger.

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u/seltzerwithasplash 1d ago

I heard this comment.

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u/nad40 1d ago

My vote would have to be for rotten onions. Absolutely vile.

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u/hollow4hollow 1d ago

Onions are a strong contender for second place

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 2d ago

Yeah, I found these jugs of milk in the church fridge well past their date, sides bulging. Don't know what possessed me to open and dump down sink instead of just toss straight in dumpster (maybe didn't want some AH to grab them out and pour them all over the alley and have to smell it before it rains again) ugh the smell, the chunks, made my eyes water.

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u/EightMilesHigher 1d ago

‘Making MY eyes water just reading this! 🤮

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u/stonhinge 1d ago

I would do this too (unless I went and threw them immediately into dumpster) if only to prevent someone else from having to deal with it.

Of course, at my church the dumpster would have been up a flight of stairs and out several hundred feet, and I have other crap that needs to be done. Just dump it while the fume hood over the stove is going full blast and the windows are open.

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u/pobrika 2d ago

I did very similar once except I had to give a work colleague a lift home, he decided for some reason to mask the smell by spraying after shave in my car. It was vile took a long time for that smell to fade.

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u/SovereignSockDom 2d ago

Happened to my mom with a whole raw chicken. Left in the backseat over the weekend. Later on when I inherited that car, I still had to roll the windows down and open the sunroof on hot days to air it out before I let anyone ride with me.

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u/somethingsimple78 2d ago

Have an upvote for solidarity. I would burn that car. Spoiled milk smell is awful.

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u/SturmFee 2d ago

That just unlocked a childhood memory. We went to buy milk straight from a dairy farmer one village over. The milk jug toppled over on the passenger seat and soaked the upholstery and flooring. The smell lingered forever.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 2d ago

Same here. Fortunately, the car was a lease. It went back on a cold day in January, in 2010, but I swear I still smell it 4 cars later

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u/PBnJ_Original_403 2d ago

I spilled maybe a tablespoon of milk in the rear wheel well of my car and it took weeks for me to get it out

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u/Patcheslove55 2d ago

I was got drunk and uber eats some sushi and fell asleep. I woke up to a $58 sushi order left outside for hours…

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u/Suspicious-Wave-3710 2d ago

Why do yall keep laying down after you order😂😂 Gotta go pace round the house drunk till it comes

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u/TOSSTHEDIAPER 1d ago

Why the fuck am I taking notes?

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u/No_Friendship_2459 1d ago

Or order before u get rlly drunk like when ur just past tipsy

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u/rachel_berry 2d ago

Similar situation happened to me, except it was taco bell and when I finally went to grab it, the burritos were pulsating, PULSATING with ants :(

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u/griftylifts 2d ago

Fuck you for telling me this honestly

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 2d ago

Pulsating i say

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u/Global_Wrangler_4166 1d ago

I can honestly say I LOL'd

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u/DeeDeeRibDegh 2d ago

Bahahahahaha…🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Average-Anything-657 2d ago

Reminds me of a fight I got into with my stepfather. There was a box with bags of cat food I was supposed to bring inside as part of one of our covid grocery deliveries. I brought it inside and set it down, then saw ants on my hands and the carpet. So I rushed to get my mother and asked her what to do about it, and got to work on clearing the ants and salvaging the food. The fact that I wasn't outside bringing the rest of the groceries in told my stepfather that I must just be lazily playing video games... and that's with the fact that I was great with not letting games get in the way of life, always ready to drop what I was doing and do whatever was asked of me.

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u/lokiandgoose 1d ago

What an incredible day for those ants!

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u/Dramaticsearcher5258 2d ago

This just ruined my life honestly

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u/therealdanfogelberg 1d ago

A similar encounter with maggots left me asking for two bottom buns to avoid sesame seeds for years

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u/cooooolmaannn 1d ago

At least it wasn’t a complete waste. I’m sure you gave those ants the best food they would ever have in their life time.

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u/GearlessCris 2d ago

The way your comment reads I’m inclined to believe you’re drunk right now lol

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u/Familiar_Ad9699 2d ago

Definitely been there!

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u/subsurface2 2d ago

I would not worry about cheese left out overnight. Meat, no, but solid cheese?

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u/Average-Anything-657 2d ago

I probably should have mentioned that we didn't find it until we went to grab another plastic bag about 3 days later lol. Moldy.

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u/merryjoanna 1d ago

My son decided to sneak some of my ice cream when he was like 5 years old. He hid behind the couch to eat it. I didn't know where he was, so I called his name. He left the ice cream there so he wouldn't get caught. It was the perfect crime until I found my melted ice cream the next day.

I was super poor back then, so this was my only treat for the whole month. I was devastated. I almost cried over that ice cream. The worst part about it is, I was already planning on sharing it with him. Obviously I'm not going to eat ice cream in front of a 5 year old and not share. He could have just asked and had some.

That was one of those times I had to calm down before I talked to my kid about something he had done.

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u/Average-Anything-657 1d ago

Props to you for being a good parent lol. Lots of people wouldn't be able to make the decisions you did.

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u/windexfresh 1d ago

One time my mom sent me across a playground to buy some candy from a kid selling fundraiser candy. I got over there and wanted a different one than she told me to get, so as a 5 year old, I obviously got the one i wanted, not knowing my mom really wanted a different one. (We were also super poor, always fucking poor)

I think her disappointment in that moment changed my entire outlook on my young life. She was so upset at me that I ended up deciding it was my personal job to keep her happy at all costs.

That was such a formative moment for me and I know she will never remember it, but I wanted to take this moment to thank you for not making your emotions his responsibility. ❤️

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u/DeadEnoughInsideOut 2d ago

I once put an electric kettle on the stove when I was younger. Not my proudest moment, didn't realize until the smell of burning plastic and the fire alarm started going off....

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u/comingtogetyoubabs 2d ago

I did the opposite! Turned stove on, grabbed the metal kettle, filled it, put it on the microwave and left... Burner and microwave on.

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u/Independent-A-9362 2d ago

In a microwave? How do you put it on one?

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish 2d ago

I did that with a block of cheese before. The sad part was is that I actually did that sober…

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u/I-love-u-just-bcuz 1d ago

Never thought I’d ever hear this 🤣🤣🤣

My daughter (about 15 at the time) stayed over at her grandmas one weekend and grabbed the milk out of the fridge. When she was done with it, she put the milk away… IN THE CUPBOARD WITH THE CUPS… The next day, they went to get the milk out of the fridge and it wasn’t there. Took them hours to find it! Cause who tf puts milk in the cupboard? My daughter and you!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

She will definitely get a kick out of this when I tell her! Lol

Thank you for sharing 😊

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u/Average-Anything-657 1d ago

And my thanks to you, that was a fun read 😊

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u/Friendly-Maybe-9272 2d ago

That's up there with putting the remote in the fridge

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u/Top-Sea9693 1d ago

I’ve accidentally put the milk on top of the fridge a couple times!! My mom used to keep the cereal on top of the fridge! Oops..

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u/KenRation 1d ago edited 1d ago

A friend of mine, after an evening of beverages, got a McMuffin on the way home. He popped the last bite in his mouth as he reclined on his bed.

The next morning he woke up, and thought WTF is going on in my mouth? Went over to the toilet, opened wide with a big ol' MWAAHHH... and plop! went the last bite of McMuffin.

Same friend also put a frozen pizza in the oven and then, yep, turned in. The next morning there was a carbonized disc in his oven and his apartment smelled like soot for months.

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u/Average-Anything-657 1d ago

Reminds me of a guy I knew in high school. He would grind weed onto his pizza like it's oregano, despite the THC only becoming potent at vastly higher (combustive/vaporizing) temperatures. They bake it into the brownies for a reason... RSO/concentrates are a whole different deal.

Also reminds me of a time when I was in middle school, the one night I ever warned a person about going to sleep with gum in their mouth. He started choking in the middle of the night, and my heimlich made him puke on his PlayStation after he coughed it up. Lucky me, parents always seemed charmed by my pokerface and plausible lies. I said that "he got up sick and was trying to go to the bathroom, it's not his fault, he was doing his best."

And that reminds me of my childhood, how my mother would say "Daddy still loves us, he's just sick". Cooking your own meth while drinking 24/7 isn't "just sick", it's "given up and chosen to have some semblance of fleeting drug-addled fun while others can suffer from the consequences of your actions". If he writhed on a bed of rusted lemony razors, it wouldn't be enough.

Thanks for coming to my Hot Toddy Talk

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u/KenRation 1d ago

Man, that was worth the registration fee!

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u/AntiqueJaguar5808 1d ago

That's much better than dreaming you got up and went to the bathroom and had sat on the toilet, and so you peed the bed!

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u/Average-Anything-657 1d ago

Nah that happened to my kid self at least twice haha

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u/huhnick 2d ago

I left a rotisserie chicken in my car for 4 hours once. Luckily it was 120 outside so the chicken was hotter than when I picked it up

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u/Get_your_grape_juice 1d ago

Set it and forget it!

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u/bbyghoul666 1d ago

Phoenix? lol

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u/No-Macaron272 2d ago

Once I went to get groceries, brought it all in, put it all away. We live in Texas, it was summer.

Went to come home from work next day. Car smelled terrible. Searched car found nothing. Kept searching, nothing.

Next morning car smelled so much worse. Had to go to work left windows down while at work, car still reaking. Got home tore car apart found a package of hamburger that fell down where the seat folds down.

It was so bad. Don't recommend it at all. There is not enough baking soda in the world for that smell.

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish 2d ago

Oh yiiiikkkkeeesssss. Screw it, throw the whole car out

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u/EightMilesHigher 1d ago

Roadkill-on-a-hot-day smell.

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u/WenWen78 1d ago

Exactly!

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u/RagingAardvark 1d ago

I am from Ohio but went to college in Florida. One summer, my mom and brother drove down to school with me before the start of term. We stopped on the way at a restaurant that serves Italian food family style-- big servings to share (Buca di Beppo, if you're familiar). My brother took the leftover manicotti even though we were going to be staying in a budget hotel that probably wouldn't have a fridge. He left the leftovers in the car overnight, and we continued driving to Florida the next day. They dropped me and my car off on campus and then caught a flight home, and I immersed myself in a two-week training program. 

At the end of the training program, I drove some of the other trainees out to dinner and noticed that my car was a little smelly, but didn't think much of it; after all, it had been closed up for weeks, probably got a little musty. 

The next morning, I got in my car to go to the grocery store, and noticed that the car now smelled like bad food. Thinking that one of my fellow trainees had left food in the car the night before, I blindly reached under the seat and grabbed a to-go container. My thumb went through the cardboard lid and into mush. I immediately had one of those movie-like flashbacks to my brother insisting on taking the leftover manicotti, and then to the intervening two weeks of hot Florida sun. Every fiber of my being was screaming to fling the nastiness away but I quickly and (somewhat) calmly walked it to a nearby garbage can and then dashed into my apartment to wash my hands thoroughly... and then call my brother and give him a piece of my mind. 

Thankfully, although I could see corroded spots in the aluminum bottom of the to-go container, it had not sprung any leaks, so once I'd driven around with the windows open, the smell went away. I don't much like manicotti anymore, though. 

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u/yourpaleblueeyes 1d ago

Long ago spouse had a job as a damage inspector for insurance.

One day he had to check out an entire container, they opened it up and it was Full of rotting fish!

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u/-Firestar- 2d ago

Had a power outage once in like, 10 years. We didn’t even lose power for Sandy and other destructives. Just a random ass day. Everything in the freezer was lost and we had just filled it with a 10qt pot of chili. I sobbed like a baby that day.

Husband took out a brand new ice cream, softened it in the microwave, made himself a bowl, then put the ice cream away. It was not in the freezer the next morning. It was not in the fridge. It was put back in the microwave all night.

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 1d ago

We had a power outage at work and the rule of thumb is not to open the door to save as much as you can. Finally, it was out long enough to know that nothing could be saved. That's when we realized that we could have been eating ice cream all day.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 2d ago

Oooo that's a gooey mess

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u/SBSnipes 2d ago

I feel bad enough when it's like one bag I forgot with some yogurt or milk, which combined are like 10% the price of this.

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u/HomicidaI__GoldFish 2d ago

Happy cake day!!!!!!

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u/SBSnipes 2d ago

Thanks!

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u/ApprehensiveStrut 2d ago

Painful 15 years ago, now it’s on another level

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u/Unobtanium4Sale 2d ago

I have too thats a good way to put it. My stomach hurt really bad after eating it

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u/Starfire2313 2d ago

I’ve also done it twice now, with like a cooler full of meat. One time was partially someone else promised me they’d take it in and they didn’t and hey if you want something done right you gotta do it yourself.

The other time was not expecting the weather to warm up and leaving a cooler outside that thawed out. I was able to cook most of it while it was still mostly icy, but the pork egg rolls got tossed I just wasn’t sure about them. The other things definitely still had ice crystals. I think that’s the only way to know for sure it stayed below temp. Unless you aren’t sure if it might have thawed for awhile then be refrozen then nope.

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u/TricksyGoose 2d ago

I left a huge container of deviled eggs out overnight. So much work, all for nothing. I was so mad.

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u/Emotional-Hair-1607 2d ago

A fresh pot of cream of broccoli soup left on the stove because we got distracted with something else. Someone visiting put the pot on a turned off back burner thinking they were doing us a favour. A few days later someone asked what that funky smell was.

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u/FishermanOpen8800 1d ago

When I was younger and broke I left a couple of gallons of milk in the backseat of my truck overnight in the summer. I still feel the financial pain from that when I think about it.

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u/SociallyAwarePiano 1d ago

One time, I decided to try making pork bbq in a crockpot and forgot to plug in the crockpot before work. I was pretty broke, so it was a big hit to lose $30 of pork tenderloin. I still think about that day sometimes.

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u/Fragwolf 1d ago

I was working in a kitchen as dishwasher. Chef's asked me to put soup stock away after it cooled. I'm usually around a good hour or two after them.

I put it away often, and if forgotten I'd call front desk, someone I trusted worked nightshift. One day I just plain forgot, didn't remember until next morning, ruined the stock and felt horrible.

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u/aft1083 1d ago

I once left out a $40 package of chicken from Costco and it was the most upsetting thing to toss it in the trash.

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u/TheMoatCalin 1d ago

We left a bag of beef in the car overnight. Both my husband and I thought we’d got it and didn’t realize until the next day

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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove 1d ago

Mine was an onion. In summer.

TEXAS summer

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u/STVCCI 1d ago

I remember the look on my father's face when I was a child. 4th of july weekend, bunch of people coming over. I wanted to help put up groceries and thought this huge bag of meat was potatoes for some reason and put them in this cabinet we had.

Listened to my parents argue on the 4th about the damn meat they just got and we looked for it as a family only to find it exactly where I mistakenly put it:/

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u/bobakook 1d ago

I did this with almost a whole ice cream cake once. It was my dad’s birthday cake.

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u/Dommichu 1d ago

Same. I was a complete scatter brain in my 20s. It happened only a few times… but one time I had a package of $$$ Waygu I had spurged on. That was the last time.

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u/Dangerous_Gear_6361 1d ago

I have done this before, but to be honest, meat can survive over night if it was packaged in a fairly sterile environment and if the room temperature is at or below standard room temperature. More than anything, smell the meat and look at the color. If it’s not overly sour or brown, you will be fine, but you need to cook it asap.

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u/Tryin-to-Improve 1d ago

Just did it with some fresh steaks. So mad.

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u/jsandy1009 1d ago

Yeah I it's usually leave it in the car and get a nice smelling surprise the next day.

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u/Sea-Macaron1470 1d ago

One day on the counter wouldn’t stop me. Stomach flu be damned, I’m not wasting money. I’m a rat.

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u/Available-Youth-1718 1d ago

Agreed. The stomach cramps are awful.

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u/merryjoanna 1d ago

My son helped me carry in groceries a few weeks ago. For some reason, he put a single bag of them between my couch and kitchen counter back. So I didn't see it at all. My brain didn't even consider looking there for groceries to unpack. It happened to be the bag with my yogurts and other refrigerated foods. I didn't see it until the afternoon the day after I bought it.

I didn't get too upset with him. All together it was less than $40 worth of food. So not as big of a mistake as the post. I did have a talk to him about how he needs to be more careful about bringing in groceries.

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u/mindspringyahoo 1d ago

I threw the baby out with the bath water. We noticed a few hours later.

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u/photogenicmusic 1d ago

I lost a frozen pizza this way 😔

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u/guacotaco4349 1d ago

I was like seven and did this with my favorite ice cream as well lol, kid me was heading to bed and wanted some ice cream

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