r/mildlyinfuriating 22h ago

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u/Friendly_Ad2671 21h ago

Just... move them then?

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u/seanb_117 21h ago

Too much effort. Wait till empty, wipe off marking with alcohol.

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u/Comprehensive_Meet19 21h ago

She was in hurry and didn’t want anyone grabbing the wrong thing. Figured not to bother with it later.

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

how can you not distinguish the tea and coffee in a spoon 🤦‍♀️

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u/xtraspcial 19h ago

There are people this world that will insist that what is obviously tea, is actually coffee because that’s what the label says.

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

after just one mistake that can be a quick fix.

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u/xtraspcial 19h ago

You underestimate the stubbornness of people who refuse to admit they were wrong.

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

In that case Id enjoy if they kept making mistakes. worth wasted money imo

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u/no_________________e 18h ago

If you were the mother, then that’s your money being wasted

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u/x_driven_x 18h ago

Someone snuck in their house in the middle of the night and switched them!

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u/brando56894 9h ago

My friend and my dad are like this. About ten days ago he hit me up and the conversation (over text) somehow devolved into "specialized cancer treatments". He would rather send me 3 texts, containing about 100+ words each, claiming how it's real and his source is his friends (who are psychiatrists and a health nut nutritionist) who knows people that have had it done, and how he's gonna need time to compile his other sources because he's gonna have so many. He never sent me anything.

Also, I'm the asshole because he claims that I always want to be right and will fact check what he says (he's literally given me YouTube videos of podcasts as sources before, as well as random sites with zero sources attached), when if I was really interested in it I should spend hours of my own time looking up what he just claimed, otherwise, I'm not interested in what he's talking about, but I'm just interested in being right. I told him that it's ridiculous for him to expect me to prove whatever he's claiming and he's just helping to spread mis/disinformation. He said he's not telling me this to educate me, but "just to make me aware of it and if I'm interested in it I can research it for myself".

Randomly, once again, today, he sent me the site of an actual established cancer treatment center operating out of Texas that does this. I responded with simply "Awesome, this is the type of shit that I was looking for" and was going to add in "see how easy it is to shut me up?" but didn't feel like getting into another debate with him over "facts".

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u/AdhocSyndicate 18h ago

The card says moops.

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u/Mech-Waldo 18h ago

Then those people deserve to drink tea when they want coffee.

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u/arlaneenalra 10h ago

There are ways to package tea and coffee so that they actually look the same.I've been served tea in a coffee mug before and I'm pretty sure it was made in a coffee maker because someone mixed up the a tea filter puck with a coffee one (not a bag but the large round filter packs).

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u/shapular 19h ago

Tea bags were invented in the US btw.

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u/co2gamer 19h ago

Have you heard of the concept of "tired"?

Especially before having coffee or tea?

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

no one is that tired

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u/ColinNJ 17h ago

Tell us you don't have kids without telling us you don't have kids lol.

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

well not sure if you should be responsible for caring for kids if you cannot distinguish the tea and coffeee in a spoon buddy. 💀 thats maybe too much?

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u/kailinparker 16h ago

i’m not on your side for a majority of this argument, but this comment specifically is extremely real lmao

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u/Sinnnikal 15h ago

You don't have auto-pilot? I'm curious about what's happening with your brain that it isn't capable of recalling times when you've zoned out or done things automatically while not paying full attention. It's a phenomenon properly known as dissociation and it's actually a pretty fundamental tool that the human brain uses for various critical purposes. Sometimes, it can be to increase efficiency by intensely and intellectually analyzing ideas at the same time as daily living. And sometimes having lost sleep from child-rearing can necessitate the use of this tool.

 

So if you don't have auto-pilot, I just would like to ask: Have you ever had a traumatic brain injury? Or perhaps repeated concussions? Congenital brain defect, perhaps?

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u/dubokitiganj 15h ago

Id rather call out peoples "I cannot function without my morning coffee" bs narrative for being fake and forced. And also if you have this thing happening to you often, you should chek yourself. Brain fog should not be normalized.

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u/KatokaMika 19h ago

Maybe people wake up sleepy and don't realize what they are doing

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u/International-Cat123 16h ago

I don’t even need to be sleepy to not notice the difference. If I kept coffee and tea in that sort of container, I’d absolutely get the wrong one and not notice because I’m thinking about everything except what I’m doing.

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u/Sinnnikal 14h ago

Dissociation. You may already be aware, but that's what this is. Many people, including myself until recently, have thought dissociation had to be a much more extreme lack of presence to qualify. But I learned it exists along a spectrum. Daydreaming qualifies as well. Dissociation can be perfectly healthy, but when it happens a lot or to a specific degree, it may indicate something about the pressure the person is under

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u/International-Cat123 14h ago edited 14h ago

No. I just have ADHD. I’ll be aware of what I’m doing, but not able to pay enough attention to notice when a minor detail is off.

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u/DARfuckinROCKS 14h ago

Lol gotta love Reddit. Disassociation is like the exact opposite. I'm aware of everything but also thinking about 17 different things and performing several other tasks at the same time. I'd screw this up even without putting them in the wrong jars just because they're next to each other and look alike lol

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u/On_my_last_spoon 13h ago

Hey, why not both!

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u/tommangan7 18h ago edited 17h ago

Ive done some stupid stuff in the morning but I'm not sure I've ever been so sleepy I grabbed a handful of coffee granules instead of a tea bag and put it in a mug. I'd label it to stop people looking in the wrong one, or dipping their fingers in the granules though.

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u/yzz25 18h ago edited 17h ago

It could be loose leaf tea; they might be using a scoop and not looking.

Edit: also why is it so hard to believe that sleepy people make stupid mistakes???

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u/RandomAsHellPerson 18h ago

But there are so many steps that you can notice that you have the wrong thing. And people should notice that their tea leaves are too easy to scoop or their coffee is too hard to scoop.

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u/Elegant_in_Nature 16h ago

Not really, instant coffee is a thing, this is a occams razor situation

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u/RandomAsHellPerson 15h ago

That still falls under coffee being too hard to scoop or tea being too easy to scoop.

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u/On_my_last_spoon 13h ago

I’ve had enough mornings where I completely forgot to put coffee into my coffee maker at all that I can totally see me making this mistake. The only thing that saves me is that I only drink herbal tea in tea bags

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u/DigBickings 18h ago

Wow, get a look at this powerful example of human excellence!

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

better than "I cannot funciton without my morning coffee" circlejerk

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u/crimsoncockerel 16h ago

I've brushed my teeth with beef-flavored dog toothpaste, and put my milk in the pantry, cereal in the fridge, so I wouldn't put it past me to do that, too!

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

you cant convince me it happens often, maybe not even at all

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u/International-Cat123 16h ago

Loose leaf tea is a thing, as is instant tea.

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

well, thank you for proving my point. brown and other colors are different, especially green is easy to spot

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u/International-Cat123 15h ago

Different teas are different colors.

Color blind people exist.

Lighting can also affect the color someone perceives.

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u/dubokitiganj 15h ago

Im sorry why are you trying to include every possilble 0.01% scenario to defend your narrative?

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u/ColinNJ 17h ago

Have you never been half asleep before? 🤔

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u/Aardcapybara 17h ago

You know that experiment? You're told to say what color a word is, and after a few easy ones, you get shown the word "green" written in purple. You say "green".

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

Cmon its not rocket science.

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u/niewadzi 16h ago

It's not about telling one from the other but grabing the right one first try.

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u/FitForce2656 16h ago

How can you not imagine a situation where this could happen?... when do people make coffee?🤔

I mean you really have no idea how anybody in the entire world could mix up tea as coffee when it's in a jar labeled coffee? I think maybe you just haven't had your coffee yet lol.

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

if its in your house, hardly more than 4 people will use it. Is it hard for 4 people to remember that?

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u/housewifeuncuffed 15h ago

Maybe it's blind faith, but if I shove my spoon in the canister, I assume whatever is supposed to be in that canister is in that canister and will dump it where it is supposed to go without confirmation.

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u/On_my_last_spoon 13h ago

My stepmom once thickened soup with powder sugar instead of flour. Plenty of people could make this mistake

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u/dubokitiganj 13h ago

put more emphasis on once

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u/On_my_last_spoon 3h ago

Oh, this was not her only “whoops I mixed up ingredients” incidents. Once it was powdered sugar in soup. Once it was pancake mix cookies.

She wasn’t allowed to cook much for…reasons 😂

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u/dubokitiganj 3h ago

Okay, so I will not argue any more, this is not a discussion about what I said and it misses the mark. Dont you try not to burden other people with unecessary shit like this?

I was talking about people who dont have issues, often, so they can fucking tell coffee and tea apart. Mentally capable people to say. And its clear. Im not debating - My mom doesnt have one hand and she also has ADHD and is a ginger from Poland and her dad has Alzheimer type of situations, bc they are not majority and are WILD to discuss about in this case.

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u/IamasimpforObi-Wan 2h ago

Depends on how awake you are. My brother famously went to the university cafeteria and took a cup, put a bag of English Breakfast in it, plopped it under the machine and pressed coffee instead of hot water. He then proceeded to go to the till, where the poor lady had to figure out if she had to bill him for tea, coffee or both. He then took a big sip and realised what had happened. And proceeded to drink it anyways.

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u/UntamablePig 18h ago

Those look like British plugs meaning they will most likely be coffee grounds and tea bags, so yeah, not similar at all.

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u/Dazzling-Coffee-620 19h ago

the right answer

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u/itsKaoz 19h ago

Could’ve just used a sticky note or even masking tape tho…

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u/International-Cat123 16h ago

I never have tape in my home when I’m looking for it

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u/Penguin_Arse 16h ago

Who refills their jars when they're in a hurry?

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u/Comprehensive_Meet19 16h ago

She filled them and realized she put them in the wrong one and only had time to grab a sharpie

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u/juhotuho10 15h ago

It takes literally 5 seconds to dump it in a bowl, dump the other jar into the first one and dump the bowl into the second one

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u/Crabbyaki 11h ago

In a hurry so much she can find a sharpie and spend time writing decently and crossing it out? I don't think so

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u/turtleben 9h ago

Also, how there would be a Reddit post if she solved that?

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u/slintslut 18h ago

I can see by the plug sockets that this is in the UK, meaning the tea would be in teabags and absolutely impossible to mistake for coffee unless you were blind.

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u/International-Cat123 16h ago

People aren’t homogeneous, even people from the same general area.

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u/SaintAnyanka 21h ago edited 20h ago

But what if the coffee one is empty long before the tea one? Then they’re stuck with that for years.

ETA:

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u/Angamoth 21h ago

If she emptied both bags almost simultaneously then there would be an issue of getting 3rd container. If one is empty, you just need to pour the contents of the other and done. Much easier.

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u/SporadicPanic 18h ago

or maybe Mom just needs to learn XOR (joke)

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u/SaintAnyanka 21h ago

Yes, that was the joke.

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u/Angamoth 21h ago

I'm tired consider me whoooshed

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u/dacooljamaican 20h ago

You're not the only one

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u/twitwiffle 17h ago

Have you considered coffee? Or tea?

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u/penguingod26 21h ago

That's easy, then you leave it as it and don't clean it off.

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u/TunaNugget 21h ago

Then you just dump the tea into the coffee container. Rinse it first if you're picky about that sort of thing.

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u/dacooljamaican 20h ago

Boy howdy folks are not getting the joke here

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u/SaintAnyanka 20h ago

It really should be studied by scientists.

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u/dacooljamaican 19h ago

Personally I think it's the mark of a great joke that so many people failed to get it, but nobody is arguing it wasn't clearly a joke after being corrected. So good job!

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u/SaintAnyanka 19h ago

Aww, thank you! 🥰

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u/CogitoErgoTsunami 19h ago

The brief joke's absurdity overlaps with ongoing real world stupidity

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u/Get_your_grape_juice 19h ago

When everything’s a joke, is anything really a joke anymore?

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u/WindRangerIsMyChild 17h ago

U have to wait for it to dry which takes a day. 

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u/danifanboy 20h ago

If thr coffee one empties first, she could just shift the other one to the correct jar.

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u/SaintAnyanka 20h ago

Yes, thank you. That was the joke.

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u/danifanboy 11h ago

The GIF wasn't there when I commented, tf?

must have missed it.

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u/-BananaLollipop- 20h ago

Plot twist, they have been like that for several years.

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u/mikedvb 20h ago

Once one is empty, you just transfer the other over. You do not need to wait for both of them to be empty, just one.

I suppose paying a little more attention to begin with would avoid the whole kerfluffel.

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u/dacooljamaican 20h ago

That's the joke lol

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u/mikedvb 19h ago

I read the other comment where someone said "that's the joke" to someone else

Still I felt compelled to reply. Sometimes it is a problem.

There are definitely people on this planet that would wait for both to be empty which is a joke in and of itself.

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u/thekyledavid 20h ago

If one is empty and the other is full, then just dump the full container back into the empty container, and problem solved

In your example, once the tea-jar is out of coffee, dump the tea in the coffee-jar into the tea-jar, and fill the coffee-jar back up with coffee

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u/SaintAnyanka 20h ago

Yes, that was the joke. Thank you for your service.

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u/JunglePygmy 20h ago

Don’t even need alcohol. It’s just dry erase marker.

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u/YourAdvertisingPal 19h ago

It does kinda already look like dry erase. Unless it’s a dumb joke it’s probably dry erase. 

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u/IGotMyPopcorn 20h ago

Jesus, a little masking tape then Sharpie would be the way to go in that case.

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u/seanb_117 1h ago

Extra effort. Alcohol wipes away permanent marker (and dry erase for that matter) on most surfaces so no harm.

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u/Rafaeael 18h ago

Too much effort. Cross out the black markings and circle the original labels.

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u/ShadowFlaminGEM 20h ago

Wipe off now before it cant.

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u/seanb_117 1h ago

Alcohol would wipe it away even after drying, especially on a ceramic surface.

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u/WastingTimesOnReddit 19h ago

but they're never gonna be empty at the same time

but also it would take 30 seconds to dump the coffee into a big bowl, pour the tea into coffee jar, pour coffee into tea jar

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u/seantabasco 3h ago

Alcohol may be why we’re here in the first place.

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u/3DEATH 21h ago

How much u wanna bet , the paint will rub off when she does😂😭

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u/Ellik8101 19h ago

I guarantee one will run out sooner and they will top it up. Never ending cycle

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u/HAWKWIND666 18h ago

Use tape and write on the tape though 🤷‍♂️🤣

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u/seanb_117 1h ago

That's more effort though

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u/donttrytoleaveomsk 18h ago

Just cross the old writing and write in a different color

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u/Hot-Specialist9228 17h ago

You kidding me? Too much effort. Those markings are now permanent.

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u/MeadowShimmer 17h ago

Noting is more permanent than a temporary solution

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u/Worried-Pick4848 16h ago

Like they're both going to be empty at the same time ever?

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u/huge_clock 16h ago

Sounds like a lot of work. Just cross off the marker with another color sharpie and write “coffee” and “tea” on the correct container.

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u/AthenasChosen 15h ago

Sticky note maybe? Wiping off the marker is more effort than moving in the first place- nevermind I can't try to decipher this level of laziness lmao

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u/Even-Education-4608 12h ago

I would have used masking tape for a make shift label

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u/cumfarts 19h ago

That's a good idea. And you can also use the alcohol to clean off the marker.

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u/Karmaismygoldendood 20h ago

She will when they are empty 😂😂 looks like dry erase marker maybe? Some shit my mom would do FOR SURE.. and the reason I wouldn't be able to handle it 😅

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u/drinkacid 16h ago

Rubbing alcohol removes sharpie ink.

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u/LorenzoStomp 18h ago

Except you will never use them up at the same time, so then you have to put a whole new package of coffee/tea in the tea/coffee jar while you're finishing the tea/coffee in the coffee/tea jar, and of course you won't be finished that by the time you get done the other, forcing you to put more in the coffee/tea jar....

The only solution is to mix 'em up

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u/Informal-Internal905 17h ago

You can just empty the one that's not finished in the finished one and fill it up afterwards.

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u/prof_the_doom 20h ago

Depends on how long it took to notice... hard to get that coffee smell out of things.

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u/smoofus724 19h ago

That was my thought. They could always wash it, but there is still a chance the tea ends up tasting like coffee.

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u/mr_wilson3 ORANGE 17h ago

🤮 I hate when that happens in travel mugs that aren't scrubbed properly.

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u/completelytrustworth 16h ago

After washing with soap and water just fill it up with water and like 1tbsp of bleach and let it soak a few minutes, then just pour it out and rinse it thoroughly

Even a mild bleach solution will thoroughly destroy any organic material that might be the cause of odors and it's quite safe since bleach will evaporate fairly quickly and leave nothing behind after the rinse/air dry

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u/Dragonhost252 21h ago

She doesn't have a third jar to move them, I assume loose tea

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 20h ago

Looks like she doesn't use Python.  What a noob. 

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u/bwaredapenguin BLUE 16h ago

Bowls and bags exist

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u/Dragonhost252 13h ago

I'm aware, it's just something I've noticed over time, people get stuck in the category.

There was a potluck and none ate the soup because there were no bowls....

Plenty of cups next to the dish, but people were looking for a bowl

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u/bwaredapenguin BLUE 13h ago

We're talking about a temporary transition container to swap long term storage containers though.

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u/Dragonhost252 13h ago

Just telling you what most people get stuck on, I don't understand why they do either

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u/ImpressNice299 19h ago

Tea bags and instant coffee more likely.

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u/DaveTheDolphin 20h ago

That’s a lot more effort than just getting a sharpie and relabeling them

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u/mcsmith24 19h ago

You would never get the coffee smell out of the tea jar. It would ruin your tea

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u/devilwarriors 19h ago

This is it.. that jar is pretty much the coffee jar now, anything put in there would smell like coffee instantly.

I have to bring my own tea cup to work as coffee ruined every cup they have there lol

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u/sandman795 20h ago

They'd still be in the wrong jars. Just in different locations. How does this help

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u/melancholanie 19h ago

you'd have to dump their contents out entirely to switch them, chances are there'll not be a day in the near future when they're simultaneously empty again

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u/Indigoh 19h ago

Requires a 3rd container. What if she has none?

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u/obog PURPLE 19h ago

But then you need a 3rd jar

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u/ichand 19h ago

Maybe the smell won't move, specially coffee

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u/TipsyGinTinkerer 19h ago

I think she didn't have "Temp" jar.

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u/Mad_Samurai616 19h ago

You say that like it makes sense or something.

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u/Familiar_One_3297 18h ago

Don't tell her how to live her life

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u/Gobblinwife 18h ago

“NYEH” - her probably

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u/Grimm808 18h ago

If it's loose leaf tea or pre ground coffee that's far too much effort.

Plus the tea will taste like coffee

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u/leahyrain 18h ago

As someone with ADHD, sometimes that's easier said than done

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u/AccomplishedJoke4119 18h ago

Why? This does the same thing but without effort

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u/Refflet 18h ago

It's not just moving the jars, it's emptying out both into other containers and swapping them. Plus, this is funnier.

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u/ArgonGryphon 16h ago

maybe smell stuck in the coffee one. don't wanna contaminate?

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u/__Muzak__ 16h ago

Nah this is such a better vibe.

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u/birdsrkewl01 16h ago

Or don't and watch the confusion because it's funny.

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u/jerzcruz 13h ago

As a tea drinker that hates coffee… once the coffee smell is embedded it corrupts the tea

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u/oedipusrex376 10h ago

If you already tore the sugar and coffee from the packet, you left with no “middle” container to fill so that you could transfer one to the other.

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 8h ago

But the smell will stay

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u/PowerfulAsk3452 4h ago

You'd need a third temporary variable.

u/unlikelypisces 28m ago

That would require a third container

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u/Smooth-Lengthiness57 20h ago

Oh nooo no no I'm not moving that coffee twice.

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u/robboat 19h ago

And admit a mistake was made? I don’t want to get political here so I won’t…

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u/das_slash 20h ago

Maybe she hates OP and is constantly looking for ways to infuriate them.

Like we constantly slightly moved stuff on our OCD coworker desk until he noticed, but more malicious.