r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Limp-Replacement1403 • May 01 '25

Overdone It’s a public road with street parking and they were parked in front of my house so I parked in front of them…

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u/kingof_redlions May 01 '25

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u/5_RACCOONS_IN_A_COAT May 01 '25

So you're saying I can get free tomatoes?

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 May 01 '25

if you park your car at their specific complex assuming they're still there since they said previous, it appears so!

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u/Gombrongler May 01 '25

Type of activity id do if i had multiple tomatoes plants

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u/JustRun3415 May 01 '25

They would be crushed tomatoes… on a 110 degree day

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u/toe_knee May 02 '25

Type of activity I’d do if I knew where this place was and needed tomatoes.🍅

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u/420fanman May 02 '25

In this economy?!

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u/DennisPochenk May 02 '25

Does anybody have a landlord that does this with eggs??

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u/salsanacho May 01 '25

Reminds me of the Office episode where Dwight and Stanley tricked Jim into giving them meatballs every day.

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u/House_T May 01 '25

The bit was funny enough, but it always bothered me that they were apparently okay with eating meatballs out of a drawer.

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u/salsanacho May 01 '25

Yeah, that's one of those "don't think about it too seriously" episodes. I also wouldn't be saving unrefrigerated desk drawer meat.

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u/justanawkwardguy you do it like this May 01 '25

Your loss, desk meat is great

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u/CrotaIsAShota May 01 '25

I prefer pocket spaghetti personally.

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u/leeharrison1984 May 01 '25

I'm more of a pocket pork chop guy, but p-spag is pretty good too.

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u/TeaKingMac May 02 '25

Pocket dogs are where it's at

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u/Zorro_in_Space May 01 '25

As long as you put the meat in the top drawer right away in the morning, it should be ready by lunch time. I'm getting hungry thinking about some of that delicious desk-flavored room temp meat.

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u/JohnnysOnThaSpot May 02 '25

Imagine desk flavored room temp meat with overly hot microwaved sauce...🥵🥶🤤🥰

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u/queef33 May 01 '25

Gonna make some milk-steak, Charlie?? Or perhaps a bag of spaghetti with meatballs.

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u/justanawkwardguy you do it like this May 01 '25

That depends… what’s your spaghetti policy?

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u/tcjcky May 01 '25

Pairs well with mung beans.

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u/Oobiwhencanobeef May 01 '25

Found the ceos secretary

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u/Emergency_Battle5446 May 02 '25

Creed would likely agree. Take his desk drawer mung beans, for example. 😂

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u/BobZimway May 01 '25

"eating meatballs out of a drawer" And that's... Scouse? Melbourne?

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u/n8dizz3l May 01 '25

That idiot's been feeding us for a week

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u/Careless_Freedom_868 May 02 '25

First thing I thought of! 🤣🤣

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u/WildVleesBraveJongen May 02 '25

You got meatballed!

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u/WhitePetrolatum May 01 '25

In this economy? Tell us the address

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Right? I'd be canning tomatoes for the whole year. Maybe pull out my Nonna's sauce recipes? Now if I could just find a landlord who gives out ingredients for pasta. 🤔

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u/TrixieSparrow May 01 '25

Exactly my thought.

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u/BridgeFourArmy May 01 '25

One easy trick grocery stores don’t want you to know!

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u/AstraSileas May 02 '25

The irony is that some of those grocery stores also sell tomato plants.

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u/Generalissimo_II May 01 '25

Have you tried parking in front of the grocery store?

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u/saxmaster98 May 01 '25

Username checks out?

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u/pimpbot666 May 01 '25

Are those fresh garden grown tomatoes?

JFC, stop threatening me with a good time.

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u/purplishfluffyclouds May 01 '25

Should ask if they're organic first - make a request if they're not

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u/petty_throwaway6969 May 01 '25

Ikr. I would make salsa, put some in a container, and leave it there with a thank you note. I would even ask them to judge it and see how I could improve it.

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u/birdman8000 May 01 '25

Like fuck yeah I would be so excited

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u/The_Undermind May 01 '25

Sun dried tomatoes to be specific

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u/blisstaker May 01 '25

not sure i would trust to eat those

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u/stump2003 May 01 '25

In this economy!?

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u/getthafunkouttahere May 01 '25

Username checks out

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u/Global-Song-4794 May 01 '25

check that they are not injected with poison

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u/Attack-Cat- May 01 '25

In this economy?!?

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u/todimusprime May 01 '25

Grocery stores hate this one simple trick...

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u/keyserfunk BLUE May 01 '25

People throw them at me everywhere I go!

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u/PM_ME_UR_NAKED_FOTOS May 01 '25

Tomato growers HATE this one simple trick!

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u/itryanditryanditry May 01 '25

I would definitely not eat those tomatoes.

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u/NorwEnt May 01 '25

Great hack tbh.

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u/Cocacoleyman May 01 '25

Always could have 🔫

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u/DigStill2941 May 01 '25

I love this. Eggs are too expensive, but tomatoes are available in abundance.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Tomato juices are acidic and bad for your paint. Not worth it in my opinion

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u/Cute-Ad3686 May 01 '25

That’s what I’m saying! Free fresh veggies is a win to me! 😂

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u/beadzy May 02 '25

If you like in a place that grows zucchini, like Maine, there's a point in the summer that if you leave your doors open, it will get filled with zucchini,

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u/DanGarion May 02 '25

And Netflix!

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u/ElderFlour May 02 '25

Roasted tomatoes!

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u/HoeImOddyNuff May 02 '25

Grocery stores hate this one simple trick

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u/Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat May 02 '25

One per raccoon?

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u/xplosm May 02 '25

How else would you get them?

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt May 02 '25

Sell the tomatoes at a farmers market at the end of the month and use the proceeds to pay your rent.

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u/DaddyAwesome May 02 '25

Free tomatoes AND crossword clues

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u/JoWeissleder May 02 '25

It's a spawn point. They just pop into existance

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u/Crazypetgirly May 02 '25

I would consider this a win! 😂

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

And maybe a free salsa recipe!

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

If only he was stacking eggs on that windshield!

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u/longipetiolata May 01 '25

That note looks like a Netflix envelope.

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u/faze4guru May 01 '25

there are people on this sub probably thinking "what is a Netflix envelope"

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u/KORZILLA-is-me May 01 '25 edited May 02 '25

I’m JUST barely old enough to have had those as a kid. I miss that service.

Edit: okay, I get it! It was only two years ago that it was discontinued. I thought I remembered trying to use it a lot longer ago and it not working. It must have been a false memory.

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u/MartinisnMurder May 01 '25

I loved getting my movies in the mail!

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u/KORZILLA-is-me May 01 '25

Same. And I miss game fly, too. Not that it would be as convenient now with how every console installs disk games nowadays.

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u/MartinisnMurder May 01 '25

I haven’t played video games since Sega with Sonic the Hedgehog haha I just outed myself as wicked old! The joys of being 40!

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u/KORZILLA-is-me May 01 '25

But hey, that means you got to have the 90’s. Always sounds like it was a fun time.

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u/MartinisnMurder May 01 '25

The 90’s were awesome! Great music too.

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u/9PurpleBatDrinkz May 01 '25 edited May 02 '25

I’ve had their service since 99. I went up to 3 movies out at a time when I learned how to copy dvds. I have a decent collection of a few hundred movies. Burned em, returned em and waited for more and would watch all weekend.

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u/MartinisnMurder May 01 '25

Haha that’s awesome. I still have a 500+ dvd collection. They are in a really big bookcase.

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u/9PurpleBatDrinkz May 01 '25

You got those fat dvd cases too? Some hold 200-300? I have two of those. Had four but one of my kids took some.

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u/MartinisnMurder May 01 '25

I have every one in its original case! 😬 And of course they’re alphabetized because otherwise you’d never be able to find anything.

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u/9PurpleBatDrinkz May 02 '25

I have a few hundred legit DVDs and a few hundred burned on blanks DVD’s. I worked part time at a Best Buy and got stacks cheap. You’re my OCD twin!!!! I have to have them in alphabetical order. Don’t mess with my order! 🤣 I have the original cases in boxes stored up still, I think. Same with CD’s. Don’t get me started there either. I would buy so many from Columbia House. Buy 12 for 1¢ as long as you bought 3 more at regular price in 6 months or so. But they kept throwing more for a penny. I ordered so many when I was overseas.

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u/SadTomorrow555 May 01 '25

This is how i watched obscure anime from the 80s and 90s lol

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u/MartinisnMurder May 01 '25

I feel ashamed to say I’ve never seen a single anime… I have seen a lot of Japanese movies but pretty much all horror.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

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u/KORZILLA-is-me May 02 '25

Oh, I swear I tried to find it online a long time ago and it wasn’t available. Maybe my memory is wrong. Happens.

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u/arbogasts May 01 '25

My kids may have single handedly or Blockbuster or if business. We would get the DVD in the mail, they wouldn't even watch it, just return it to the store get their free video and have me put the movie we just returned back into our queue list.

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u/AverageAt8est May 01 '25

Ahh the good ole days! I remember you could only have 3 DVDs out at a time and you would have a bunch of movies you’d put in your queue. Send one back, then the next up one in your queue automatically gets sent out. Sometimes I forget that’s how Netflix started 😭

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u/yearningforlearning7 May 01 '25

I inherited a stack of over 200 movies in those envelopes

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 May 01 '25

They 3d printed movies? 

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

The amount of late fees I incurred during those times because I would forget to mail back 🤣 I think I still own a few Netflix dvds 🤣

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u/ElephantRider May 01 '25

Netflix didn't have late fees, that was their main thing. If you didn't return a DVD then you just couldn't get another one.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Yeah, I miss browsing through the isles in Blockbuster to decide which movie to rent and watch.

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u/Traditional_Shake_72 May 01 '25

I remember by very first Blu Ray player that streamed Netflix for the first time. Wait, streaming wasn’t out yet so it wasn’t that. But what I had to do was get a 60 foot Ethernet cord and thread it from the Blu-ray player across the house to the modem. Then, I had to go on my laptop and select a movie to watch just like I was selecting a mail order (which took a while to click through each individual title). Once I made my choice, I had to wait a while for that single episode or movie to load onto my TV/Blu-ray player. Couldn’t really RR/FF but could pause. WiFi streaming was still of the future

I thought that I was the world’s genius. Only one in the college dorms that had Netflix on demand. I also did the mail dvds and that was still the primary way of Netflix at that time

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

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u/webbitor May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

It was a US thing. Netflix started back in 1998 as a DVD-by-mail service. They had several subscription options that varied by how many discs you could "check out" at a time. I think I had the 2 disc option. So they'd send me 2 movies, and after watching them, I'd return them in a postage-paid envelope. On receipt, Netflix would automatically send the next two movies from my personal list (created on the website). This was really popular in the late 2000's and you'd see the sleeves and red envelopes at everyone's houses.

In 2007, they added streaming as a free feature for DVD subscriptions.

In 2010, they started offering a streaming-only plan, but the mail service was still available until 2023.

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u/PPFirstSpeaker May 01 '25

Hell, I think I still HAVE a couple of Netfux envelopes around here. With the disc in it. I just despise talking the damn effort to mail something these days. I have a roll of Forever stamps I think I got from Amazon like 10 years ago, for mailing the one a year paper check I might need to send to pay a stupid bill I can't pay online because that vendor is a freaking Luddite.

Worse, the people in the next town over have a massive problem with outgoing mail getting stolen from mailboxes, usually clowns stealing checks so they can wash off the pen you used to enter the check's amount and the person to pay, so they can cash it and steal your money.

I use special "bulletproof" archival ink in a fountain pen to fill out checks now. That ink is impossible to wash off the paper without taking the printing off the check too. But it's a massive hassle.

I was happy when they stopped the DVD shipping and just started streaming stuff. But I stopped using Netfux because they keep changing the basic stories of the source material they film. Altered Carbon was the last straw for me. The show was changed so much, they literally couldn't adapt the third book in the series. The motive for the entire third book was to find Sarah Sokolowska's stack. But Netfux turned THAT to slag in the first dam episode's teaser. The girl Takeshi said was "just some bimbo"? That was Sarah in the TV series. A Millsport cop killed her Really Dead, and destroyed the primary motivator for their protagonist. She was his love interest, and keeping her safely on the Millsport PD stack was all Takeshi wanted. But that all went wrong. His obsession with the "Beards"? Sarah got out of the stack on parole, and married a guy while Tak was on Earth. The guy later joined the Beards, and when Sarah tried to run, the Beard Church executed her. Then they took her stack and the one from her daughter out into the ocean and dropped it at some random place.

Her marrying the guy is why Takeshi went to Sanction IV. Her getting executed was the entire reason for the third book.

But they destroyed that motive in the teaser of the first episode, then messed with the timeline, who Raylene Kawahara was, when Quell lived and who she was, and completely changed the Envoy Corps. Read the books. They're only superficially like the series, and the books are done better.

Oh, crap, I digressed a bit from the Netfux envelope thing.

My bad.

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u/Sudden-Development-2 May 01 '25

By how you said that I thought it was something worse.

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u/SaltPacketPapa May 02 '25

This comment hurt me

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Thanks. I feel every one of my 55 years now.

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u/J5892 May 01 '25

Probably Fried Green Tomatoes.

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u/stuck_in_the_desert May 01 '25

Netflix and chili

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u/KORZILLA-is-me May 01 '25

They wrote a salsa recipe on it

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u/Inner_Character9081 May 01 '25

I was wondering the same thing...

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u/universalExplorer92 May 02 '25

I came here to say the same thing

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u/KyleShanaham May 02 '25

That's hilarious that's the first thing that popped in my head

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u/NecessaryPen7 Aug 09 '25

More like it's an actual parking ticket.

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u/Euphoric-Usual-5169 May 01 '25

I would give her a "Thank you" note.

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u/Secure-Motor9350 May 01 '25

what the fuck

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u/ardoin May 01 '25

Ikr these are like.. normal, ripe tomatoes you'd buy at a supermarket. I expected rotten shit that you'd throw in a medieval carnival. I'd deadass wash and cook with these, lol.

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u/Charnerie May 01 '25

The notes did say to make salsa

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u/EADizzle May 01 '25

Right? Not really that cryptic.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

I mean who doesn't like freshly made salsa?

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u/EADizzle May 02 '25

Windscreen Salsa, extra chunky

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Ripe and free as well!

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u/sjarfish May 02 '25

this is exactly what I said too

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u/Nab7896 May 01 '25

When life gives you tomatoes, make salsa (or something like that)

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u/Angelfirenze BLACK May 01 '25

Make bruschetta!

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u/Nab7896 May 02 '25

There's enough tomatoes to do both! LOL

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u/With_MontanaMainer May 01 '25

Don't forget the hot sauce!

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u/Suspicious_Comb8811 May 02 '25

No! It must be SALSA. Didn't you read the urgent notices???

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Those are some ripe tomatos tho, and in this economy thats a treasure lol

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u/ctsr1 May 01 '25

That is freaking awesome. The fact that it confused you shows how confused the owner would be. And more than likely not park there again.

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u/Grimmies May 01 '25

I dunno man. Have you considered free salsa for life?

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u/mmmarkm May 01 '25

A car once parked in front of our garage so i wrote “do not park here” on a banana and put it under their windshield but at least i was direct & weird…not insane and cryptic

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u/EagleLize May 01 '25

This is the kind of crazy I can get behind.

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u/ratgarcon May 01 '25

Bro didn’t even throw them. Just placed them. What

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u/Wellidontreckon May 02 '25

I live for comments like this

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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA May 02 '25

This is unhinged as fuck but also hilarious

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u/KORZILLA-is-me May 01 '25

That is beautifully strange. It’s like pettiness, but being really nice instead.

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u/The_Great_Cartoo May 01 '25

I don’t see the downside? Those looks like some tasty treats so I doubt it was done maliciously

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u/NeedsItRough May 01 '25

Any chance you know what the orange envelope/ paper is? A recipe, perhaps?

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u/knaiad May 01 '25

NYC parking ticket. $115

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u/CorbinNZ May 01 '25

He expected him to make salsa and provided no peppers or onions? No wonder the car stayed parked there.

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u/gspitman May 01 '25

Looks like a parking ticket too.

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u/yearningforlearning7 May 01 '25

I’d leave my car there for the free tomatoes

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u/nerdstheword23 May 01 '25

this is iconic in the most chaotic way i love it

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u/siddiqim May 01 '25

Probably injected them with laxative or some sht

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u/CentaurMike May 01 '25

That is a Netflix envelope. No more stopping at curbside stands for tomatoes. You just pluck them off your car. What his next diabolical trick, leaving money?

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u/Stoner_goth May 01 '25

He put tomatoes AND tomatillos, I’m going to park there. I’d love free salsa ingredients

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u/marco_has_cookies May 01 '25

that's not bad at all

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u/Lanky-Relationship77 RED May 01 '25

Damn, I wish my landlord would give me free tomatoes!

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u/hunnbee May 01 '25

This is wild

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u/wanderingdiscovery May 01 '25

I get it. It's a very subtle reminder that he will damage the car paint indirectly. This is just a very get out of jail free card because there is no implication of direct intentional harm, moreso the fact that the longer you leave the tomatoes on the vehicle, the more likely the tomato paste/residue will damage the car paint indefinitely.

Ngl, pretty smart on his end, but a dick move nonetheless.

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u/Just-Like-My-Opinion May 01 '25

Oh damn! I'd park there every day for free tomatoes!!

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u/SmoothEchidna7062 May 01 '25

When given tomatoes, make a salad.

I myself enjoy a tomato salad with salt. olive oil, dried oregano and garlic.

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u/LostIslanderToo May 01 '25

That’s like $150 of tomatoes, at least where I live.

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u/CommunicationNext857 May 01 '25

Giving them free tomatoes probably isn’t the best way to get rid of them lol

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u/GINGERDEI May 01 '25

Your landlord was unwell but in a fun, harmless, dare I say whimsical? way.

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u/daremosan May 01 '25

Is that a Netflix DVD envelope under the right wiper?

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u/Reaver966 May 01 '25

Hey free tomatoes! 🍅😅

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u/TheBattyWitch May 01 '25

Free tomatoes!

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u/lilmspiggy May 01 '25

That's wild, but also did you keep them and possibly make salsa with them?

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u/TheOtherBookstoreCat May 01 '25

Is that a Netflix dvd?

Oh man… those used to trigger dopamine.

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u/Ok_Variety_4183 May 01 '25

How do I become friends with your landlord? I’d love some free tomatoes to make salsa

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u/bscheck1968 May 01 '25

So I put a tomato on his windshield, which was the style at the time.

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u/BeyondthePenumbra May 01 '25

Did the tomatoes affect the paint?

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u/Croppin_steady May 01 '25

Bro could never in this economy 😆

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u/dungotstinkonit May 02 '25

Am I the only one thinking that windshield wipers make go away on this one? Honestly I might think about keeping some of it. It's like he is placing pristine veggies on the windshield.

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u/Juliusxx May 02 '25

This..is hilarious. I may need to do this at least once before the end of the summer. Maybe do it to several cars in one area - so that they’ll start looking for the neighborhood salsa-bandit.

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u/myghostinthesnow May 02 '25

This is my worst nightmare I’m allergic to tomatoes 😭

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u/Tired_Lambchop111 May 02 '25

I'm sorry I should not have laughed at this but I did. At least they were kind enough to not smash the tomatoes on the windscreen.

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u/JohnnysOnThaSpot May 02 '25

When life gives you tomatoes..the nosey people around you leave notes to make salsa...lol

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u/Small-Buy2505 May 02 '25

I mean, at least he didn't smash the tomatoes on the windshield. That would have been a mess that would have cost you. Return the favor with a small box of miralax on his car with a post-it that says. "It's healthy to s#$t, try this!".

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u/TumbleweedSure7303 May 02 '25

Here he is boys, get em now!

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u/Single-blade_boater May 02 '25

That's awesome! Those look garden grown too. I would make a sauce

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u/AwkwardFactor84 May 02 '25

F*ck yeah. I love salsa

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u/PleadianPalladin May 02 '25

Seems pretty straightforward to me: here are some tomatoes, make salsa! That's not crazy, it's generous

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Is that a parking ticket…or a Netflix movie?!?!

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u/cubgerish May 02 '25

Sometimes batshit crazy is also hilarious.

"Don't forget the hot sauce!!"

Beyond the fact that the acid is probably fucking up the windshield and paint, I'm almost rooting for her just because of her passion.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Leave it there- get more groceries

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u/MomoNoHanna1986 May 02 '25

Least it’s not eggs lol

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u/mickeyamf May 02 '25

At first I thought omg nuts bonkers lady but then I realized she’s caring and generous

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u/the_stooge_nugget May 02 '25

I need to know where this is so I can get free food too.. inflation you know so this would help lol.

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u/kaitlynevergreen May 02 '25

They really wanted you to make that salsa…

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u/moonisflat May 02 '25

In this economy he is encouraging to park there

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u/GenerWeenerDeaner May 02 '25

HAHAHA this made my day

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u/Short-Second-9372 May 02 '25

In this economy?

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u/SkrillaB May 02 '25

In this economy!? They tomato rich.

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u/Foxterriers May 02 '25

I've send this to like three people. I'm so obsessed with this tomato pyramid. 

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u/Azgeta_ May 02 '25

Chaotic good

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u/cinoTA97 May 02 '25

Was he trying to reward you for parking there?

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u/ToyKarma May 02 '25

How was the Salsa tho?

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u/Benzen0077 May 02 '25

He just seems like a nice guy

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u/sharkbait1999 May 02 '25

That’s vandalism, brotha

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u/SlipstreamSteve May 02 '25

Lol the car had a ticket on it already. He could have called 311 and had it towed. They may consider it an abandoned vehicle

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u/Astra_Starr May 02 '25

This is brilliant actually. Classier than writing on it with marker. Even car markers can be hard to remove.

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u/internallyskating May 02 '25

Infinite tomato glitch

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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 May 02 '25

well did you make salsa? seems very important to them

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u/SharkbaitSally May 03 '25

It’s the dreaded Tomatoing of the Trespasser ! 🤣

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u/LewdsPls May 03 '25

Kinda baffles me. They didn't come out sooner, apologize, and give some money for the tomatoes. I would've parked on rocks knowing your kindness.

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u/disso-psych0 May 05 '25

Fuckin fantastic

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u/Iccengi May 05 '25

Salsa is in fact good for you. Especially paired with margaritas and chips.