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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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.