Pineapple in the drawer

SBmini

I was putting some stuff away today in the mid century dresser we keep in our entry for storage. I opened the bottom drawer and was greeted with the strangest thing I've ever seen.

It was a pineapple, sitting there, rotting, covered in fruit flies. A pineapple. In a drawer. Of a dresser. In the entryway.

I said a few expletives as I grabbed a towel and quickly took it to the outside trash. I asked my fiance why on earth there was a pineapple in the drawer, he didn't know. He didn't remember putting it there but agreed that it was probably his doing. He then looked at me and said, "But it's kind of funny... right?"

It became funny when I got to watch him swat at fruit flies for the next hour.

Men.

CMGragain

My DH loves to garden.  He harvested a cantaloupe that wasn't ripe, so he put it on top of the refrigerator.  (He's tall.)  A week later I smelled something - off.  I couldn't find the source of the smell.  I thought it was something inside the refrigerator.  I open the door, and the melon on top of the refrigerator wobbled and exploded.  The rotten fruit and liquid ran down the refrigerator sides and front.  It was totally disgusting.
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HisGirlFriday13

My father once took meat down to the freezer in my parents' basement. He put the meat on top, opened the door, re-arranged the contents to make room for the meat, closed the door, and left the fresh meat on top of the freezer.

A week later, mom noticed something smelled off, went downstairs, saw the meat, gagged, and threw it away.

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NavyBlue143

Maybe he watched that episode of HIMYM with the pineapple?

CaliMel11

One morning I opened the microwave oven to microwave some water for tea...and found a lb of ground beef.
My mom had put it into there to thaw, forgotten, and  cooked us a completely different dinner.

At least twice I have microwaved a tv dinner, and then forgot I made it, cooked a whole new dinner, and not realized that the tv dinner was in there until the next day.
This was in an old microwave that did not have the reminder chime that the new ones have.

CMGragain

DH just reminded me about the time he and daughter went to Sam's Club.  They bought a very large package of frozen chicken cordon bleu entrees.  Daughter was supposed to unload the trunk of the car, but she got distracted.  DH found them two weeks later.  He was wondering why the flies were buzzing around the car.  Never did get all the smell out of the trunk.

AddieCake

I once found a floppy once-frozen pizza in my trunk in a grocery bag I missed taking in.

jenna8984

Have any nieces or nephews that could have done it? lol 

SBmini

jenna8984 said:

Have any nieces or nephews that could have done it? lol 

Nope! I bought a pineapple a few months ago and never ate it. I remember wondering a little bit about what happened to it. I think when unloading the car it somehow got stuck on top of the dresser. Then, when my fiance was picking up later that day or the next day, he stashed the pineapple in the drawer instead of putting it in the kitchen where it belonged. 

AlexisA01

When I had my graduation party, my father was on the grill making burgers and hot dogs. He cooked the rest and put them in a pan and shut them in the grill to come back after I cut my cake. Well he forgot and the next day my mother was looking for the 6th batch of burgers and hot dogs to eat as leftovers. My dad was wondering where in the fridge was that pan of food. My sister is out by the pool and notices a bunch of flies over by the grill. She decided to check the grill and when she opened it up, maggots and flies were having a blast on the food. Ugh it was so gross. My dad was just in awe he left the food outside in the cruel summer heat.

jenna8984

In college I went home for Thanksgiving with my best friend that I met in college. Her family made the turkey and everything on Thursday Thanksgiving then on Sunday we went to cook up some chicken wings for the football game and when we opened the oven the leftover turkey was still in there. It was gross and hilarious. 

SBmini

Oh, and now my car is stuck in the garage because the garage door broke. I've been telling my fiance that the garage door is breaking for months now. He opted for the 'wait and see' approach of male problem solving. 

Thankfully, because he never finished the garage organization project he started last month, his truck is in the driveway, so I can still make it to my alternations appointment this afternoon.

jenna8984

@sbmini LOL MEN!!! Last time I got an oil change they said my battery was getting low and should be replaced soon. So I tell FI and he says "the light isn't on, it's fine" So yup I'm just waiting for the day when I get out of work in the pitch dark and have a dead battery because he keeps saying it's fine.

SBmini

jenna8984 said:

@sbmini LOL MEN!!! Last time I got an oil change they said my battery was getting low and should be replaced soon. So I tell FI and he says "the light isn't on, it's fine" So yup I'm just waiting for the day when I get out of work in the pitch dark and have a dead battery because he keeps saying it's fine.

Batteries are super easy to swap out. All you need is a wrench or socket (depending on your car). Unplug the terminals, pull old battery out, put new battery in and replug the terminals, being mindful of the positive and negative terminals. It should take you 10 minutes. 

But yet, my fiance is the same way. When brake lights come on he just asks if the car still stops. Of course it still stops, you moron! The car WILL stop until there is NOTHING left on the pad, then the metal will eat into the rotor, but I don't think you want to deal with the headache that will be to fix! I have half a mind to let my car coast into a wall one day and declare, "Well, it stopped yesterday, but I guess today is the day that I really need brakes!"

photokitty

Before we were married, the power went out at DH's place. We were gathering things form the fridge and freezer to take to my place and before we headed out he went out to the garage. I followed him and when he went to open the chest deep freezer, he turned and said, "don't freak out." He opened the freezer, revealing the head of a deer and packed it in ice. It is now the fifth deer mount chilling on the couch in my basement.

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Thankfully this story this story doesn't not include a smell factor, just an wwww factor.