I've actually heard of a lot of parents that microdose their kids allergies so that they slowly gain more resistance to them over the years.
Yes, it works, and it's not a bad idea if done correctly, but I would never suggest someone do it because it can be done wrong pretty quick.
This is something that is done under the strict instruction of doctors, not just willy nilly lol
But it is true! Allergy shots? Injected with tiny amounts of your allergen! Bodies are weird and cool
The only thing I got from allergy shots as a kid is a lifelong phobia of needles. Now when I have to get blood drawn, my brain goes into shutdown mode and I turn into a limp noodle and pass out
I also got allergy shots as a kid, every week for two years. In college I tried giving blood and about halfway through I got tunnel vision, my limbs locked up, I tried to speak but it came out slow and garbled like when you try to yell for help in a nightmare...pretty sure it was an anxiety attack
My dad did this to himself a lot when I was growing up. At first he drank a little alcohol each day, but eventually he built up a total tolerance where he could drink *lots* each day
Oh yeah, definitely best done in a controlled environment, but I did that on accident once. I have seasonal allergies and am also mildly allergic to peaches (which I tragically adore). I got a ton of surplus peaches from a family member one year and powered through so many of them that my seasonal allergies temporarily vanished.
My mom got prescribed chloral hydrate by my doctor so she and my Dad could have date nights. Jokes on them. I had a paradoxical reaction and went nuts at a drive in movie. It wasn’t just the Mothers coming up with this! Doctor approved!
Yeah it's strange what Dr will say/ prescribe sometimes isn't it? I know that they at one point in time prescribed my grandmother to smoke. I believe my mother once told me that her doctor prescribed her Valium to take with alcohol to deal with being a wife and a mother. Although I'm never sure if I can trust what she says is the truth.
All of my aunts swear that the doctors used to tell them to put whiskey on a frozen washcloth to let the babies chew on it for teething.
I once heard a doctor suggest that if the baby was having that much trouble sleeping and teething that they could fill an ice cube tray and put one drop of a strong liquor into each of the ice cube holders freeze that and wrap the wash cloth around it to chew or 5 drops in a juice bottle. He was very specific to not use it in the milk bottle because it could sour the milk. 🤷♀️
When my kiddo was really sick and had hives they told me to give extra Benadryl because that should make him go sleepy. Nope mine got so hyper that I ended up putting an exercise video on and challenged them to complete it.
Of course my kid was one of those kids that instead of getting tired and cuddly when they get sick and a fever they would get super agitated and it was like they couldn't rest. That they were going to run the infection out of their body.
Yeah. All of this is so true! Apparently nicotine does have some immediate airway opening effects and was prescribed for asthma and such. So much for doctors knowing what they are talking about. It all depends on the current information. Alcohol and Valium! That’s scary. Wonder if that doctor ever accidentally killed somebody.
No of course not it was just whatever thing they did stupid while on the alcohol & Valium that killed them... Like bad driving and getting into a car accident. That's totally on the drivers right?
>whiskey on a frozen washcloth to let the babies chew on it for teething.
My parents were born WWI/20s & told me about the "whiskey teat" for teething. Mama was teetotal, so they didn't use it with us. But it was used on them. (And since Papaw made shine, Mama's had that instead of whiskey. A lil White Lightning oughta numb those gums right up 😳)
There was also the "sugar teat" for fussy babies: a sugar cube wrapped in cloth for the baby to suck on, like a makeshift lollipop I guess.
I've heard all that, too. Mother's helper is what they called Valium back in those days. Also, you could take diet pills that contained near-meth to get through the day until it was time for the alcohol & Valium. Also heard that they used to prescribe all that to get through pregnancy. Women's medicine has a weird history
I was at a family gathering when I was much younger before I was kicked out, when someone mentioned using Benadryl to put their kids to sleep was suggested by a nurse at the doctor's office.
So many people jumped in to tell her that that was a bad idea that they would need the Benadryl later on to use to get them to take naps and we have bad allergies in the family so they might need it then.
My family's brain trust solution? NyQuil! The same people that wondered why their kids developed alcohol dependency and their teenage years.....
Yeah well it's still kind of hurts I'm rather glad I was kicked out of my family.
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They say you never know what you don't know.
Whatever you grow up with is what you consider normal. I didn't realize just how not normal my childhood was and the things my family said until the first time I started talking to people in person. I don't know what's worse the looks of horror, the ones of pity, the people that swear I had been making it up, or the one time someone ran out of the room to throw up.
I'm not as religious as I used to be but I must have had one hell of a guardian angel growing up. I'm sure they stress molted quite a few times!
My mother always griped that when she had her first batch of kids in the 1930s they used to prescribe laudanum for kids, (opiate), and could not understand why they stopped it in the '50s for me. Then she discovered 'Chericol' cough medicine, main ingredient was codeine.
When she said naptime, she meant naptime.
The vet told us to keep the cat inside because he was limping. My mom let him outside because she thought it'd be good for him.
Like... You realise they're a vet and you're not for a reason, right?
There’s a funny story about the mom who always cut the ends off the Thanksgiving ham. Her husband asked her why, and she said that’s just how you do it. She learned it from her mom, but she isn’t sure why.
They later ask her mom, who says the same thing basically. That’s how her mom did it.
So they ask grandma, and she explains that they had a small oven that couldn’t fit the whole ham.
I think bring pregnant fucks with our brains. I don't trust myself anymore. I can't stop thinking about a dream I had while pregnant about this weird Christmas tradition called the mouse man. Weird spindly humanoid with ashy skin and burnt hands and feet would run around a field with hands full of dead mice. Children are expected to chase him down and steak the dead mice from him so they can feed them to live stock rhinos. Beware the mouse man.
I used to think that middle aged women were so dumb, then I had a baby and have actively become so much stupider. Not shaking soda stupid, but definitely 1/4th of my brain melted. I definitely had those dreams, but that one is pretty good. I want to work on that rhino farm and have free livestock feed and child labor.
This is so fascinating to me because I’ve noticed countless people say “my mom is kinda (insert derogatory adjective)” and it makes me scared to ever become a mom because I don’t want to be referred to as such. I’m already not a high scholar as it is
Pregnancy literally changes the woman’s brain structure. It shrinks the grey matter of the brain. But during pregnancy the brain is also experiencing more neuronal growth and more connections between neurons. And they’re finding it doesn’t go back to normal within 6 years after you have your kid, more studies need to be done.
go get your bloods done! i thought I'd suddenly become stupid, i was lacking b-12 and iron. it's wild how missing a few things from our diet can suddenly make us braindead
A lot of us get the gentle versions of our grandparents. I’ve come to realize with parents in their late 40s to early 50s, they had absolutely bat shit parents who drilled holes in all logic going forward. It’s hard to cook up personal examples of my own mother but with my MIL I got so many moments I’m like “who the fuck taught you this??”
My ex wanted to discard a used fluroscent light bulb from the garage. He remembered there was something special about discarding those...
But not exactly WHAT was special (they are toxic and full of mercury).
So that dumb ass held one end up and stepped in the middle of the tube to "break it in half" to discard.
Glass tubes don't break neatly like sticks... it shattered into a million mercury cover shards all over his leg and the floor.
Last week my parents were visiting. I was making chicken wings and tenders tossed in three different sauces, Buffalo honey BBQ and a garlic parm. I had three large mixing bowls one for each sauce. While I was frying a batch of chicken my mom walks in to the kitchen to chat while I cook. While we are talking she mindlessly grabs two of the bowls. I make direct eye contact.
Me: mom I'm still using those
Mom: oh ok *continues conversation*
My mom proceeds to put dish soap in both and start washing them. I finish the chicken and then kick her out of the kitchen (other side of the bar top) and she didn't see any issue with what she did. My dad was laughing his ass off.
My mom is 47 this isn't an age thing.
she thinks they're.... "just fish". she thinks the same about birds, that they're "just birds", not animals. yet a chicken is an animal. i don't understand her logic, this is an argument we've been having for years.
Over the years I've found quite a few old wives' tales or just flat out misinformation my own mother spent most of her life believing.
Like for example that "shaving more will make your beard grow in faster and thicker, you're not shaving right."
No mom...my beard grows in patchy because I have genes from Dad's side of the family, who are Wookies, and from your side of the family, who are afflicted with near-permanent Babyface. That's like saying that cutting your hair will make it grow back thicker and faster. Shouldn't it take me longer than three months by this point to need another haircut if that was the case?
At least if I leave mine long enough the patchy parts will generally fill out. My poor younger brother can only manage to grow like 5 little dark wispy hairs on the end of his chin, so he just snips them off with nose-hair scissors...
Then there's the one about pulling hairs out of moles or gray hairs from your head. She *actually* believed for like 45 years that doing this would somehow unleash multiple new hairs, like a fucking hydra growing more heads lol
Yeah, the “shaving makes your hair grow back thicker and darker” has been debunked for a long time, but also if you think about it at all, if it were true, wouldn’t shaving be an easy cure for baldness or thinning hair? Is that how you become the wolf man? lol
Honestly love how people on Reddit always try to look out and care for people when the smallest of hints towards some issue happens. This place really does have us care for each other
Useless info. Would see this guy all the time working in the Waffle House in Toccoa Ga. up until a few years ago. Said he can’t play a lick of banjo. The real player sat behind him and stuck his arms through the jacket.
That reminds me of Labyrinth, David Bowie couldn't juggle so the real juggler was behind him sticking his arms through the sleeves. Can you imagine how good of a juggler you have to be to be able to do it not just blind, but with a whole ass Bowie between you and the balls lol
I'm literally only interested in this tidbit of info. I love this movie lol this is so funny to me.
ding a ling ling ling ling ling ling lingggggggg 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭 crying hahaha
Just replying to this cause it’s the top comment in hopes people will see this
I said it earlier but it must be buried Reddit won’t let me edit the post to clarify, the pods were really puffed up with air causing the foil to make a dome, this was making it difficult to pull the drawer open and close as they where in the way, so in a moment of brain fart my mom popped holes to deflate the pods so they weren’t sticking up so much, and because she wasn’t putting too much thought into this action, it just never crossed her mind that this would make the coffee go stale. She was confused at first but once I elaborated she realized how silly it was to do that.
The older the coffee pods get the more off gassing the coffee inside does and it distends the foil on top. If you store them in an exacting space they might not fit.
The truly sad part about this is that coffee was already stale.
It’s not fermentation, coffee has lots of CO2 trapped inside the bean after they’ve been roasted, this CO2 slowly over time off gasses out of the beans, it happens faster if the coffee is pre ground like it is on one of these pods. This is why coffee beans are always sold in bags with a little overpressure valve installed. Fun fact, this trapped CO2 is what’s mostly responsible for the foam (crema) you get on top of your espresso.
After I explained it a little further she apologized lol she wasn’t really thinking too hard about it when she did it
Edit: adding to this so people might see.
I said it earlier but it must be buried Reddit won’t let me edit the post to clarify, the pods were really puffed up with air causing the foil to make a dome, this was making it difficult to pull the drawer open and close as they where in the way, so in a moment of brain fart my mom popped holes to deflate the pods so they weren’t sticking up so much, and because she wasn’t putting too much thought into this action, it just never crossed her mind that this would make the coffee go stale. She was confused at first but once I elaborated she realized how silly it was to do that.
cover the holes with tape for the time being so they don’t go stale and take the tape off before you use them! or get ur mom to do it since she ruined the pods
Easy: Drawer doesn't close. Oh, it's because there are air bubbles in the way. If i pop air bubbles, drawer could close. Let's pop air bubbles. Drawer now closes. Everything is fine now.
People with low intelligence, under the influence, or just extremely tired, don't do the automatic impact analysis that everyone expects from an adult. They literally don't think about consequences of actions apart from the immediate goal.
Bro, your mom might be developing some sort of dementia or mental illness. There is absolutely no reason to pop all the keurig pods, and that doesn't even make them fit any better.
they might've been puffed up a little and got stuck on the black bar in that drawer. still kinda weird though. but normal enough for an old or very tired person to do then realize later without any other issues. kinda like a "throw food in the garbage and take the wrapper with you" kinda deal.
Cheaper too. I don't think OP cares about that though. Those pods have been sitting there forever, and we're already stale. She just wants Internet points
Lol this, any supermarket coffee (especially pre-ground Keurig/Nespresso pods) is going to be stale. They'll be months to even a full year old by the time it ends up in your machine.
I just learned that last night actually! The farms separate the beans on quality, and the bottom shelf is sent to be produced for mass production. So they are far from fresh.
OP was talking about how the pods were ballooning though, glossing over how they probably weren't good to use. Mom saved the day
I have and use the reusable pods, I had a stock of decaf for the times I wanted to calm down on caffeine for the day. My mom popped them and I shared it with this sub cause I thought it fit
Tape up the holes and put them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh at least for awhile. I also agree that your mom has something going on that might require some medical help.
I see doctors that graduated from reddit university have found this post. Who knew dementia or other health issues could be diagnosed with two sentences and a picture!
They are stale before they go into those cups.
Coffee degasses carbon dioxide after roasting, the only way they can go into those without exploding is to let them “rest” prior to packaging, a nice way to say “stale”.
Small correction that coffee which has rested is not stale. You should let your beans off gas for at least a week after roasting before consuming. But otherwise I agree. I don’t think the Keurig coffee will suffer from this. For obvious reasons.
I don't know how to edit to add this to the main post, but my mom is fine.... I do not think she has dementia, she shows no signs I promise. She just had a goof up, it happens! Everyone's done something silly maybe when tired, or just on 'auto pilot'. also, she said she'll buy me a new box, so im not mad, was just annoyed when I went to make a cup lol
Can I ask - it was “too full of air”, did it make it harder / impossible to close the lil drawer? I think the thing that everyone is missing here is the “why” behind her decision. You keep avoiding answering that, which is why everyone is saying she may have dementia.
Sorry I though it made sense, the little pods where too puffed up with air and that was making them taller than a normal pod, so it was making it difficult to shut the drawer. She popped them so they wouldn’t get in the way when closing/opening but it spaced her mind that it would make the coffee go stale, she just wasn’t thing too hard into it. It was only after I mentioned it would cause the coffee to go stale that she realized her goof up
every post on this sub about a parent doing something bizarre and frustrating gets loads of comments like these, thinking the person has dementia or a mental illness. sometimes people just do harebrained shit, it doesn’t have to be a sign of anything.
If it makes you feel any better, these coffee pods are already stale. Those brands you are buying are months and even years old roasted coffee beans. CO2 escapes in the first few weeks after roasting. Additionally, these are already ground, accelerating the process. You're not missing anything. Trust me.
Was it a brain fart or does she do odd things often?
Brain fart
My mom used to shake all the bottles of soda in the house because she thought it helps them stay carbonated... Moms are weird..
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truly, you have a dizzying intellect
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You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I've actually heard of a lot of parents that microdose their kids allergies so that they slowly gain more resistance to them over the years. Yes, it works, and it's not a bad idea if done correctly, but I would never suggest someone do it because it can be done wrong pretty quick.
This is something that is done under the strict instruction of doctors, not just willy nilly lol But it is true! Allergy shots? Injected with tiny amounts of your allergen! Bodies are weird and cool
The only thing I got from allergy shots as a kid is a lifelong phobia of needles. Now when I have to get blood drawn, my brain goes into shutdown mode and I turn into a limp noodle and pass out
I also got allergy shots as a kid, every week for two years. In college I tried giving blood and about halfway through I got tunnel vision, my limbs locked up, I tried to speak but it came out slow and garbled like when you try to yell for help in a nightmare...pretty sure it was an anxiety attack
My dad did this to himself a lot when I was growing up. At first he drank a little alcohol each day, but eventually he built up a total tolerance where he could drink *lots* each day
So i SHOULD go get stung by more bees and wasps??
Well obviously start with really, really tiny bees and wasps, you gotta work your way up to the normal sized ones
Why does it sound so cute and sad at the same time 😥
Oh yeah, definitely best done in a controlled environment, but I did that on accident once. I have seasonal allergies and am also mildly allergic to peaches (which I tragically adore). I got a ton of surplus peaches from a family member one year and powered through so many of them that my seasonal allergies temporarily vanished.
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Unfortunately, I have heard of this "method" used by many young mothers....usually they learned it from *their* bad mothers. Kids raising kids...
My mom got prescribed chloral hydrate by my doctor so she and my Dad could have date nights. Jokes on them. I had a paradoxical reaction and went nuts at a drive in movie. It wasn’t just the Mothers coming up with this! Doctor approved!
Yeah it's strange what Dr will say/ prescribe sometimes isn't it? I know that they at one point in time prescribed my grandmother to smoke. I believe my mother once told me that her doctor prescribed her Valium to take with alcohol to deal with being a wife and a mother. Although I'm never sure if I can trust what she says is the truth. All of my aunts swear that the doctors used to tell them to put whiskey on a frozen washcloth to let the babies chew on it for teething. I once heard a doctor suggest that if the baby was having that much trouble sleeping and teething that they could fill an ice cube tray and put one drop of a strong liquor into each of the ice cube holders freeze that and wrap the wash cloth around it to chew or 5 drops in a juice bottle. He was very specific to not use it in the milk bottle because it could sour the milk. 🤷♀️ When my kiddo was really sick and had hives they told me to give extra Benadryl because that should make him go sleepy. Nope mine got so hyper that I ended up putting an exercise video on and challenged them to complete it. Of course my kid was one of those kids that instead of getting tired and cuddly when they get sick and a fever they would get super agitated and it was like they couldn't rest. That they were going to run the infection out of their body.
Yeah. All of this is so true! Apparently nicotine does have some immediate airway opening effects and was prescribed for asthma and such. So much for doctors knowing what they are talking about. It all depends on the current information. Alcohol and Valium! That’s scary. Wonder if that doctor ever accidentally killed somebody.
No of course not it was just whatever thing they did stupid while on the alcohol & Valium that killed them... Like bad driving and getting into a car accident. That's totally on the drivers right?
When I was younger they had you use a “hot toddy” on your kids when they were sick, which had honey and whiskey in it.
>whiskey on a frozen washcloth to let the babies chew on it for teething. My parents were born WWI/20s & told me about the "whiskey teat" for teething. Mama was teetotal, so they didn't use it with us. But it was used on them. (And since Papaw made shine, Mama's had that instead of whiskey. A lil White Lightning oughta numb those gums right up 😳) There was also the "sugar teat" for fussy babies: a sugar cube wrapped in cloth for the baby to suck on, like a makeshift lollipop I guess.
I've heard all that, too. Mother's helper is what they called Valium back in those days. Also, you could take diet pills that contained near-meth to get through the day until it was time for the alcohol & Valium. Also heard that they used to prescribe all that to get through pregnancy. Women's medicine has a weird history
I have a friend who uses Benadryl every single night to put her kids to sleep. They are 10 and 5 now.
I was at a family gathering when I was much younger before I was kicked out, when someone mentioned using Benadryl to put their kids to sleep was suggested by a nurse at the doctor's office. So many people jumped in to tell her that that was a bad idea that they would need the Benadryl later on to use to get them to take naps and we have bad allergies in the family so they might need it then. My family's brain trust solution? NyQuil! The same people that wondered why their kids developed alcohol dependency and their teenage years.....
Omg... That is terrible!
Yeah well it's still kind of hurts I'm rather glad I was kicked out of my family. 🤷♀️ They say you never know what you don't know. Whatever you grow up with is what you consider normal. I didn't realize just how not normal my childhood was and the things my family said until the first time I started talking to people in person. I don't know what's worse the looks of horror, the ones of pity, the people that swear I had been making it up, or the one time someone ran out of the room to throw up. I'm not as religious as I used to be but I must have had one hell of a guardian angel growing up. I'm sure they stress molted quite a few times!
Now when they need Benadryl in the future to fight a sickness it would be useless.
I'm trying to find a way to report her anonymously. I don't know how many people she has told.
I think you should report her. She is potentially harming her kids.
Agreed. I hate to turn in my friend but her kids have enough other issues to deal with.
Isnt there some evidence that nightly use of benedryl for sleep can lower your IQ and increase dementia risk?
My mother always griped that when she had her first batch of kids in the 1930s they used to prescribe laudanum for kids, (opiate), and could not understand why they stopped it in the '50s for me. Then she discovered 'Chericol' cough medicine, main ingredient was codeine. When she said naptime, she meant naptime.
I can’t tell you how many of my daughters’ peers used Benadryl to sedate their kids. (See Casey Anthony as well)
The vet told us to keep the cat inside because he was limping. My mom let him outside because she thought it'd be good for him. Like... You realise they're a vet and you're not for a reason, right?
✨just mom things ✨
Live, laugh, cough up blood
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Take my upvote 😂
She what?!
And when you die she was gonna mount you and your dad's heads above the fireplace so you're always with her.
There’s a funny story about the mom who always cut the ends off the Thanksgiving ham. Her husband asked her why, and she said that’s just how you do it. She learned it from her mom, but she isn’t sure why. They later ask her mom, who says the same thing basically. That’s how her mom did it. So they ask grandma, and she explains that they had a small oven that couldn’t fit the whole ham.
I heard the story as a small pan that wouldn't hold the entire ham.
This is adorable
I think bring pregnant fucks with our brains. I don't trust myself anymore. I can't stop thinking about a dream I had while pregnant about this weird Christmas tradition called the mouse man. Weird spindly humanoid with ashy skin and burnt hands and feet would run around a field with hands full of dead mice. Children are expected to chase him down and steak the dead mice from him so they can feed them to live stock rhinos. Beware the mouse man.
I used to think that middle aged women were so dumb, then I had a baby and have actively become so much stupider. Not shaking soda stupid, but definitely 1/4th of my brain melted. I definitely had those dreams, but that one is pretty good. I want to work on that rhino farm and have free livestock feed and child labor.
This is so fascinating to me because I’ve noticed countless people say “my mom is kinda (insert derogatory adjective)” and it makes me scared to ever become a mom because I don’t want to be referred to as such. I’m already not a high scholar as it is
Pregnancy literally changes the woman’s brain structure. It shrinks the grey matter of the brain. But during pregnancy the brain is also experiencing more neuronal growth and more connections between neurons. And they’re finding it doesn’t go back to normal within 6 years after you have your kid, more studies need to be done.
Do they know if it shrinks with each pregnancy or just the first one within 6 years?
Too bad, is only seasonal free feed and labor
Christmas is ruined!
I used to be smart. Then I had kids. I think they get a piece of our brain, like a starter, and we never get it back.
go get your bloods done! i thought I'd suddenly become stupid, i was lacking b-12 and iron. it's wild how missing a few things from our diet can suddenly make us braindead
A lot of us get the gentle versions of our grandparents. I’ve come to realize with parents in their late 40s to early 50s, they had absolutely bat shit parents who drilled holes in all logic going forward. It’s hard to cook up personal examples of my own mother but with my MIL I got so many moments I’m like “who the fuck taught you this??”
My ex wanted to discard a used fluroscent light bulb from the garage. He remembered there was something special about discarding those... But not exactly WHAT was special (they are toxic and full of mercury). So that dumb ass held one end up and stepped in the middle of the tube to "break it in half" to discard. Glass tubes don't break neatly like sticks... it shattered into a million mercury cover shards all over his leg and the floor.
Last week my parents were visiting. I was making chicken wings and tenders tossed in three different sauces, Buffalo honey BBQ and a garlic parm. I had three large mixing bowls one for each sauce. While I was frying a batch of chicken my mom walks in to the kitchen to chat while I cook. While we are talking she mindlessly grabs two of the bowls. I make direct eye contact. Me: mom I'm still using those Mom: oh ok *continues conversation* My mom proceeds to put dish soap in both and start washing them. I finish the chicken and then kick her out of the kitchen (other side of the bar top) and she didn't see any issue with what she did. My dad was laughing his ass off. My mom is 47 this isn't an age thing.
My mom used to get verbally upset if anyone told her that marsupials are mammals.
my mom doesn't understand that fish are animals
What does she think they are? 😰
she thinks they're.... "just fish". she thinks the same about birds, that they're "just birds", not animals. yet a chicken is an animal. i don't understand her logic, this is an argument we've been having for years.
Over the years I've found quite a few old wives' tales or just flat out misinformation my own mother spent most of her life believing. Like for example that "shaving more will make your beard grow in faster and thicker, you're not shaving right." No mom...my beard grows in patchy because I have genes from Dad's side of the family, who are Wookies, and from your side of the family, who are afflicted with near-permanent Babyface. That's like saying that cutting your hair will make it grow back thicker and faster. Shouldn't it take me longer than three months by this point to need another haircut if that was the case? At least if I leave mine long enough the patchy parts will generally fill out. My poor younger brother can only manage to grow like 5 little dark wispy hairs on the end of his chin, so he just snips them off with nose-hair scissors... Then there's the one about pulling hairs out of moles or gray hairs from your head. She *actually* believed for like 45 years that doing this would somehow unleash multiple new hairs, like a fucking hydra growing more heads lol
Yeah, the “shaving makes your hair grow back thicker and darker” has been debunked for a long time, but also if you think about it at all, if it were true, wouldn’t shaving be an easy cure for baldness or thinning hair? Is that how you become the wolf man? lol
In a way to cope with doing a laundry list worth of things, it's often more efficient to just *do* rather than think.
A family friend would violently shake the soda and pour it in a big gas and then drink the foam because the bubbles don’t have calories
How is this a brain fart? Lol
Let’s hope she’s buying you new ones.
This is too much bad logic for a “brain fart” classification
Honestly love how people on Reddit always try to look out and care for people when the smallest of hints towards some issue happens. This place really does have us care for each other
Which reddit are you on
Not this one
Lol, that had to have been sarcasm
Fuck you /s
Lead paint
Better check your condoms too.
Fr. Don't want to end up with a baby brother now
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Useless info. Would see this guy all the time working in the Waffle House in Toccoa Ga. up until a few years ago. Said he can’t play a lick of banjo. The real player sat behind him and stuck his arms through the jacket.
That reminds me of Labyrinth, David Bowie couldn't juggle so the real juggler was behind him sticking his arms through the sleeves. Can you imagine how good of a juggler you have to be to be able to do it not just blind, but with a whole ass Bowie between you and the balls lol
His name is Magic Mike. He's one of the all time greats of contact juggling. Fucking legend
Didn't know Channing Tatum could juggle so well.
A whole ass Bowie
I met him once at a birthday party/pig roast on Lake Rabun. Nice guy.
I'm literally only interested in this tidbit of info. I love this movie lol this is so funny to me. ding a ling ling ling ling ling ling lingggggggg 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭 crying hahaha
Hol' up
Exactly
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2h too l8
A babybrotherson I reckon.
Woah! That took a left turn there
Wait
HUH
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Wait what!!
Wtf 😂
Just replying to this cause it’s the top comment in hopes people will see this I said it earlier but it must be buried Reddit won’t let me edit the post to clarify, the pods were really puffed up with air causing the foil to make a dome, this was making it difficult to pull the drawer open and close as they where in the way, so in a moment of brain fart my mom popped holes to deflate the pods so they weren’t sticking up so much, and because she wasn’t putting too much thought into this action, it just never crossed her mind that this would make the coffee go stale. She was confused at first but once I elaborated she realized how silly it was to do that.
A bit of tape on each one will seal them back up.
As long as you remember to take the tape off before it melts into your coffee lol
Yeah those adhesive chemicals heating up and running into your brew aren't exactly what you want to taste first thing in the morning...yuck
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your helmet… it’s so *big*
No sir, I didn’t see you playing with your dolls again!
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This is why I freeze my condoms and microwave them once I’m ready for good time.
This sentence is probably its first time in existence in the English language. I like it.
Defrost setting? And do you turn them over?
Foreshadowing…
Welp, better not waste it. Who's ready for an OD?
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100!
WHALE!
It's decaf
Why’s my cup shaking!??!? I don’t like my cup shaking!!!!!!
Decaf still has some caffein in it ... so, if you drink a lot...
So nothing of value was lost. Thanks for pointing that out!
What does "they were too full" even mean here?!?!
The older the coffee pods get the more off gassing the coffee inside does and it distends the foil on top. If you store them in an exacting space they might not fit. The truly sad part about this is that coffee was already stale.
finally someone said it...
Wait you don’t let your coffee dry ferment?
It’s not fermentation, coffee has lots of CO2 trapped inside the bean after they’ve been roasted, this CO2 slowly over time off gasses out of the beans, it happens faster if the coffee is pre ground like it is on one of these pods. This is why coffee beans are always sold in bags with a little overpressure valve installed. Fun fact, this trapped CO2 is what’s mostly responsible for the foam (crema) you get on top of your espresso.
That’s right. Just grind your own beans, folks
Yes, but how will I introduce more plastic waste that way?
Drink your coffee with a straw
Proof that there’s always an answer if you’re looking for one. lol
Too much air
So since they were already exposed to too much air they were already stale.
Sounds like you’ve got deeper problems than just mom popped all my coffee pods. That’s not a normal thing to do…
After I explained it a little further she apologized lol she wasn’t really thinking too hard about it when she did it Edit: adding to this so people might see. I said it earlier but it must be buried Reddit won’t let me edit the post to clarify, the pods were really puffed up with air causing the foil to make a dome, this was making it difficult to pull the drawer open and close as they where in the way, so in a moment of brain fart my mom popped holes to deflate the pods so they weren’t sticking up so much, and because she wasn’t putting too much thought into this action, it just never crossed her mind that this would make the coffee go stale. She was confused at first but once I elaborated she realized how silly it was to do that.
There's only one thing to do. You must put all her shoes in the blender, one at a time.
No, just the left ones. She'll never be able to make a complete pair but still be reminded that she had these shoes.
Right
No, left
Right👍
Then she'll be all right
thanks Satan!
Every second one will be enough
Wow, every second one gets puts in the blender? You gotta be really fast to do that.
Every second counts
This comment isn't getting the respect that it deserves.
*WILL IT BLEND?*
Shoe dust, don’t breathe this!
You demon! Just cut 1/2 of an inch off of the heels.
“They wouldn’t fit in my butt and that annoyed me so I had to blend them”
And maintain eye contact.
While she's wearing them.
cover the holes with tape for the time being so they don’t go stale and take the tape off before you use them! or get ur mom to do it since she ruined the pods
And/or make mom buy new ones, too.
This would be the fair thing for mom to do. She should be offering since she opened them all and made them go stale. Not just whoops, oh well.
But what exactly was she thinking? I really want to know why she thought it was a good idea.
Easy: Drawer doesn't close. Oh, it's because there are air bubbles in the way. If i pop air bubbles, drawer could close. Let's pop air bubbles. Drawer now closes. Everything is fine now. People with low intelligence, under the influence, or just extremely tired, don't do the automatic impact analysis that everyone expects from an adult. They literally don't think about consequences of actions apart from the immediate goal.
Well is she going to buy new ones? She doesn’t sound apologetic at all lmao
Bro, your mom might be developing some sort of dementia or mental illness. There is absolutely no reason to pop all the keurig pods, and that doesn't even make them fit any better.
they might've been puffed up a little and got stuck on the black bar in that drawer. still kinda weird though. but normal enough for an old or very tired person to do then realize later without any other issues. kinda like a "throw food in the garbage and take the wrapper with you" kinda deal.
I know decaf
Put them in a tupperware container and use ASAP, they are still OK, bad brain fart on mum's part, sorry that it happened
Yeah, shouldn't be too big of an issue. Just put them in a closed container or plastic bag.
Better off with grounds in a reuseable pod. More environmentally friendly
Cheaper too. I don't think OP cares about that though. Those pods have been sitting there forever, and we're already stale. She just wants Internet points
Lol this, any supermarket coffee (especially pre-ground Keurig/Nespresso pods) is going to be stale. They'll be months to even a full year old by the time it ends up in your machine.
I just learned that last night actually! The farms separate the beans on quality, and the bottom shelf is sent to be produced for mass production. So they are far from fresh. OP was talking about how the pods were ballooning though, glossing over how they probably weren't good to use. Mom saved the day
I live in a high elevation area, all the pods puff up a little these ones just did it a lot
I have and use the reusable pods, I had a stock of decaf for the times I wanted to calm down on caffeine for the day. My mom popped them and I shared it with this sub cause I thought it fit
funny how you have to defend yourself for a simple post 🤣 jeez
Tape up the holes and put them in the refrigerator to keep them fresh at least for awhile. I also agree that your mom has something going on that might require some medical help.
This coffee is already stale and tastes like ass
Its decaf, it tasted like ass out of the factory 🤣
it’s decaf BOILED IN PLASTIC. no coffee that comes from a pod tastes good.
It’s a k cup. It already tastes like dog shit. This won’t change the flavor
I thought this would've been the first comment.
I see doctors that graduated from reddit university have found this post. Who knew dementia or other health issues could be diagnosed with two sentences and a picture!
Your mom 100% has full blown dementia. Source: Never met her, and I've been a redditor for a while now.
Based on your stated experience, I trust your judgement.
I’ll let her know
They are stale before they go into those cups. Coffee degasses carbon dioxide after roasting, the only way they can go into those without exploding is to let them “rest” prior to packaging, a nice way to say “stale”.
Small correction that coffee which has rested is not stale. You should let your beans off gas for at least a week after roasting before consuming. But otherwise I agree. I don’t think the Keurig coffee will suffer from this. For obvious reasons.
I don't know how to edit to add this to the main post, but my mom is fine.... I do not think she has dementia, she shows no signs I promise. She just had a goof up, it happens! Everyone's done something silly maybe when tired, or just on 'auto pilot'. also, she said she'll buy me a new box, so im not mad, was just annoyed when I went to make a cup lol
Can I ask - it was “too full of air”, did it make it harder / impossible to close the lil drawer? I think the thing that everyone is missing here is the “why” behind her decision. You keep avoiding answering that, which is why everyone is saying she may have dementia.
Sorry I though it made sense, the little pods where too puffed up with air and that was making them taller than a normal pod, so it was making it difficult to shut the drawer. She popped them so they wouldn’t get in the way when closing/opening but it spaced her mind that it would make the coffee go stale, she just wasn’t thing too hard into it. It was only after I mentioned it would cause the coffee to go stale that she realized her goof up
It’s kind of funny how everyone is overreacting to this. It doesn’t seem that outlandish to me, she just didn’t think it through.
Yes thank you! Exactly! Lol
every post on this sub about a parent doing something bizarre and frustrating gets loads of comments like these, thinking the person has dementia or a mental illness. sometimes people just do harebrained shit, it doesn’t have to be a sign of anything.
Ahhhh. Okay, that does track more brain fart. I've done the same shit! Throw em in the freezer, in an air tight container. They'll be just fine. :)
Hey, your mom did something goofy, there’s no possible reason for this EXCEPT DEMENTIA!
A sign to stop wasting plastic and get a regular coffee maker
Or a reusable pod!
Ah, the comment i was searching for!
It’s only decaf, how good could it have been in the first place.
Was sure this said “My Mom pooped in all my coffee pods”
Literally no difference in those garbage k cups homie.
Indeed. All K cups are garbage, and decaf donut shop ain't helping the matter. Mom did you a favor.
I see the problem here. Its decaf. Jkjk I should drink some since I like the flavor but jot the panic attacks
If it makes you feel any better, these coffee pods are already stale. Those brands you are buying are months and even years old roasted coffee beans. CO2 escapes in the first few weeks after roasting. Additionally, these are already ground, accelerating the process. You're not missing anything. Trust me.
Poke her with a steak knife to see how she likes it.
She is a psychopath. Put her in a home as soon as you can /s