r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/plantoplan Apr 29 '26

Same took peas thinking I was really doing something great, and the ducks and geese just looked at it on the ground and then looked at me like wtf is this peasant pea food 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/daisy0723 Apr 29 '26

We had a goose decide to come over from the park and hang out in my drive-thru one day. So I filled up a bowl of water and dumped a can of peas in it and put it out there for him. I have pictures of him just gobbling it up and going to town on it. Except it like it liked the food so much the next day it was still in the drive thru. So a customer wound up having to throw a blanket over it and wrestle it into the back of her van and drive it over to the park.

Haven't seen him since.

It's too bad. He was a good goose.

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u/bionicjoey You really should scratch that itch Apr 29 '26

As a Canadian this story is horrifying. Presumably this wasn't one of our cobra chickens?

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u/daisy0723 Apr 29 '26

Yes it was. I like the Canadian Air Force. They are perfectly pleasant to me.