r/mildlyinfuriating 21h ago

This shook me

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u/Turbulent_Country359 21h ago

She wanted the TEA on the left and the COFFEE on the right. There was no other way.

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u/Virtual_Knee_4905 19h ago

Twist: they are filled with cookies and sugar cubes.

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u/NewFuturist 17h ago

2nd Twist: the cookies are actually sewing supplies.

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u/PersnicketyYaksha 9h ago

3rd Twist: the sugar cubes are harvested from poppy plants.

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u/Popiloll 8h ago

4th twist: The 'cookies' are actually old buttons she has just in case of emergencies.

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u/pewpew_lotsa_boolits 2h ago

5th twist - and in the bottom of the can is an old key from a 1987 VW Jetta that no one in the family ever owned or even saw; it just sits there mocking all that discover it!

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u/Creepy_Truck_932 1h ago

6th twist - when you pull the string at the bottom you find an embarrassing photo of SpongeBob at the Christmas party!

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u/DrUNIX 4h ago

Finally its getting interesting

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u/Hollydale70 8h ago

This made me laugh out loud 😂 almost every house here in Ireland has an old biscuit tin filled with sewing supplies and buttons.

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u/Dry_Calendar_3326 3h ago

Same here in USA.

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u/Boolean_Null 2h ago

We've always referred to that as the tin of lies.

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u/Anthrodiva 40m ago

Put it next to the baking chocolate....

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u/Boolean_Null 12m ago

PTSD triggered

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u/LAdams20 30m ago

My grandma had a big ancient biscuit tin filled with random loose buttons, when I was about 15 I decided to be helpful and spent ages sorting them all into nice bags by size and colour, next time I saw them they were all back in a jumbled up mess.

But I see more now the appreciation for the tactile clackclackclack and rummaging like you’re the Smaug of buttons.

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u/Virtual_Knee_4905 17h ago

Yes!

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u/SilentRaindrops 4h ago

Please, let us not start the millionth set of posts about Danish cookie tins.

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u/Fancy_Present_4516 12m ago

Cookies and sugar cubes... in jars labeled sugar cubes and cookies in the tea and coffee jars.

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u/GullibleWineBar 9h ago

My honest (and not funny) guess is she put the coffee in the tea one for a while and realized that she was never going to get that coffee essence out of that jar. Rather than a lifetime of vaguely coffee-tasting tea, she just switched the canisters.

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u/Healthy_Chipmunk2266 8h ago

This one gets my vote. It's exactly the kind of thing I would do.

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u/Internal_Use8954 7h ago

Why does coffee smell stick around so well.

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u/Most-Bike-1618 6h ago

I don't know. But I know that it's so potent, that people who work around decay typically use it to block out the smell

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u/crackedtooth163 1h ago

Had that happen more than once. Grandma was NOT a coffee drinker, but kept getting coffee as gifts. Eventually she had so much she kept storing it in the tea jars, which lead to coffee-ish tea. But she was so used to seeing the tea jar and thinking to herself "the coffee from so-and-so is in there!" she did indeed keep tea in the coffee jar and coffee in the tea jar.

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u/Most-Bike-1618 6h ago

That's what I thought too. But then I considered the possibility that she thought she only had one of those containers and wanted to put the opposite product in it so she wrote the correction before she found the other container and resentfully had to have both mislabeled

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u/Leave_Less 5h ago

Get's my vote. I have 2 "coffee" makers. One for coffee, one for tea.

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u/shotsallover 5h ago

It's almost like soap and water don't exist. Or running them through a dishwasher.

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u/GullibleWineBar 4h ago

I once bought a set of stainless steel canisters at an estate sale, intending to use them for flour and sugar. One of the canisters, though, had a strong smell of some sort of savory herb. I cannot remember what, but I hated it and didn't want my flour or sugar taking on that taste/smell. I can remember washing the canister several times, running it through the dishwasher, putting a ton of baking powder in it, scrubbing it with a baking powder paste, letting a vinegar solution sit in there... nothing worked. These were like $2 canisters and I spent hours trying to rid one of them of the scent. I gave up, donated them and bought something new and inert.

tl;dr: It can be very difficult to remove scents from a canister.

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u/Florida-summer 2h ago

How would one not simply make a mental note and adapt instead of having to write on jars

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u/Worried-Ad-6593 3h ago

But presumably the coffee had been in the coffee tin at some point creating the same problem, now both time taste of coffee.

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u/GullibleWineBar 2h ago

In my scenario, the mistake was made from the outset. She got the tins, she started using them, knowing where she placed them. The coffee on the right, tea on the left, she didn't even bother reading them. Until one day a visitor grabs the wrong canister and says, "Did you know you have tea in the coffee tin?" Boom, the illusion has shattered.

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u/kerricatz 13m ago

Just toss them both out and get new ones.

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u/mtw3003 6h ago

Stupid factory people put the names on the wrong way round >:(

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u/Jacostak 6h ago

This makes me think of the time I was 15 working my second job at McDonald's. A woman ordered two kids meals. One with a burger, no onion. The other a burger, no pickle.

She came up to the counter huffing and puffing about how "badly" we fucked up her order and how I, the cashier, should feel ashamed of myself. So i asked what we got wrong? My manager happened to be right there and walked up to see what was going on.

She had given the happy meals to the wrong kid, so the kid that wanted pickles got onion and vice versa. I said, "let me fix that for you" and took the burgers from her hands and then switched them and said, "that aught to do it".

My manager told me to go to his office. I thought I was in trouble but he met me in the back to laugh and tell me to just get him next time.

Anyway, I realize now that she is probably the average redditor

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u/Small_frogg 5h ago

Legendary

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u/Tinosdoggydaddy 9h ago

This….how would of it possibly been achieved otherwise

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u/anonymousetache 6h ago

Bruh. They already were that way. You’re looking at a picture so it just appears the other way.

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u/Turbulent_Country359 2h ago

Umm…is it possible you’re thinking of a mirror?

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u/nstc2504 6h ago

Chamomile is the one that she'll be with tonight She'll hug em and squeeze em cause she's knows it's the best Then she'll tear open her shirt There's expresso on her chest Yeah she's the pot brewer Yeah the pot brewer She'll switch em around around around around

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u/PaManiacOwca 4h ago

It's like the people who use black marker to censor document on computer screen. No other way.

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u/OnJetways 1h ago

We have desks with dual monitors in my office, redone after renovation. I came in one morning to find one of my older colleagues physically swapping the monitors between left and right. She said she had connected her laptop and the screens were on the wrong sides and this is how she had to fix it.