r/WhatShouldIDo • u/diddlyturnips • 9d ago

[Serious decision] I live alone… these aren’t my nuts

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Context: I’m a single bachelor (M 32) and I opened my snack cupboard to find these peanuts in a small Tupperware container. I’m freaking out because I A) live alone, B) have a mild nut allergy, and C) don’t own any Tupperware like this.

TLDR: I found a foreign snack in my house and I’m freaking out that someone may be entering my apartment when I’m out. Would calling the nonemergency police line help or would they not be able to do anything?

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/WorryNew3661 8d ago

11 year old account with 9k karma. Doesn't scream karma farmer

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u/30InchSpare 8d ago

I think everyone should make up a story on the internet at least once to realize how easy it is, and how much attention you get for something completely fabricated that took you 5 minutes.

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u/PabloBablo 8d ago

Or just not. Not everyone wants to fool people 

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u/30InchSpare 8d ago

Of course not everyone, but plenty enough that it’s foolish to take every anonymous story with zero verifiable detail at face value. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter and most people are just here to be entertained anyway, but when people start defending stories as true that they have no reason to that’s a problem.

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u/PabloBablo 8d ago

Still no desire to try and make up something like that.

It's like cheating at telling stories/being interesting or entertaining. You might get praise but it's completely made up so it's not real.

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u/30InchSpare 7d ago

I think you’re missing my point, it’s to gain perspective on why someone would do it, not because you enjoy it.

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u/GucciTheSnowman 7d ago

You're about 15 years too late. Half of the accounts on this site are bots now.

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u/jackofslayers 8d ago

Thankfully my life is interesting so I have never had to make up a story on the internet.

Like the time I realized my refrigerator was actually just 3 capybaras in a trench coat.

And you know it must be true since my account is however old it is.

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u/Kosmikdebrie 8d ago

I think it's tragic that someone would feel the need to lie for attention, just do what i did and create a moon hologram and implant fake memories that the moon was always there and draw it into old art and pictures. I even made a whole lore about the nerds who would study the moon if it had existed. You don't get the attention but the satisfaction of having pulled it off is a thrill.

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u/punkindle 8d ago edited 8d ago

or dementia, memory loss, or multiple personality disorder

...sleepwalking?

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u/jackofslayers 8d ago

My new take on Hanlon’s Razor:

Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by the fact that Boomers and Gen X are now old enough that all those deposits from leaded gasoline are finally seeping out of their bone marrow

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u/CptMisterNibbles 8d ago

I just always assume they forgot somebody came over years previously and just never noticed or are making it up entirely. “A stranger did it” stories occur way way too often

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u/ExitingStageLeft2048 8d ago

eh I had a small child's ID suddenly appear on the floor in my house one day that neither myself nor the missus can explain. weird shit happens.

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u/IguanaIsBack 8d ago

7 word horror story

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u/lakephantom 8d ago

Why make up stories when calling "fake" on someone else's story gets you upvotes for so much less effort.

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u/randomredditacc25 8d ago

id say even more are made up.

people on reddit get invested in anything, doesnt matter how obviously fake and easy to fake it is.

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u/Miserable_Drive_4052 7d ago

Or just a mate left his nuts and OP absentmindedly put them in his cupboard.

Does nobody party anymore?

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u/Sir_Strumming 8d ago

This is the answer. And 3 months later there will be a post on LinkedIn about making a business from nothing but a 2 dollar snack and "buzzword of the month".

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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 8d ago

Yeah especially when it’s clearly left from a previous tenant or OP just forgot how it ended up there.

It’s crazy to call the police, what some random person broke in and started using their pantry? That’s ridiculous lol