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Somebody has put a potato in my downstairs toilet...

84 replies

Mitebiteatnite · 07/10/2019 08:41

And nobody will own up. We redecorated our downstairs loo about 6 weeks ago, and I made a little display of stones and shells we've collected over the last year. I was having a clean up before we had guests over yesterday and I discovered somebody has moved one of the stones and put a tiny half potato in there! What the actual fuck? DH and the kids both deny responsibility, and we have had no guests since the toilet was decorated. Also of note, is the fact that the last time we had new potatoes was back in July when we'd picked them from the allotment.

So where did the phantom potato come from? It's cooked, because it's fairly soft. Looks like it has a light coating of butter. How long has it been there and why have I only just noticed it?!

Somebody has put a potato in my downstairs toilet...
OP posts:
ByeGermsByeWorries · 07/10/2019 08:42

Watching with interest Grin

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 07/10/2019 08:42

Borrowers.

RushianDisney · 07/10/2019 08:43

That's so odd. Who takes a potatoe to the loo?!

WhenYouCantRunYouCrawl · 07/10/2019 08:44

One of the kids hates eating potatoes and smuggled it into the loo to avoid eating it for dinner?

Unevenbeard · 07/10/2019 08:45

This has to be thread of the day 😂

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Mitebiteatnite · 07/10/2019 08:46

Kids both love potatoes, so it's not that.

Possibly borrowers, but I think they would have just eaten it? Grin

I just can't think how it would have got there.

OP posts:
Windydaysuponus · 07/10/2019 08:48

The bottom right stone looks like a mouldy potato. Maybe by tomorrow you will have enough for a meal?

Jesse70 · 07/10/2019 08:52

That's funny I would of put a smiling face on it tho

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Mitebiteatnite · 07/10/2019 08:53

Windydays that one is definitely a stone, but it does look like a mouldy potato, you're right!

There was a clear 2 week gap between the last time we had new potatoes and the toilet being decorated, so someone has saved this potato for 2 weeks. Why?! Just to fuck with me?

OP posts:
userxx · 07/10/2019 08:55

This is the kind of thing I do, I've no excuse and it's immature but it keeps me giggling for days.

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Mitebiteatnite · 07/10/2019 08:57

userxx have you been to my house recently? Hmm

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NcNcNcNcNcNcNc · 07/10/2019 08:57

It's DH or the kids.

This is something I would do and deny accountability indefinitely for my own comedic effect.

Shoobydoo123 · 07/10/2019 08:57

Are you saying you think the potato is 8 weeks old and hasn’t gone mouldy !!? If so get it analysed and contact Birdseye ...you've found the holy grail of food preservation !

heidipi · 07/10/2019 08:58

There's no way a cooked potato has been there since July so someone has smuggled it in. Any tradesmen you have (inadvisedly according to MN) allowed to use the facilities? Have any of the family had spuds at a recent meal out? Watching with interest.

userxx · 07/10/2019 09:05

It's not me....... if it was I'd take full responsibility 😏. I once put a chicken nugget in my friends handbag. I'm hoping once I get to my 50's I'll finally grow up.

senua · 07/10/2019 09:05

There's not much subtly about where the potato is placed so I think it was a child, not DH, wot did it. Who collected mouldy-potato-stone? - I'd guess that it was the other DC who put real-potato there.

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Mitebiteatnite · 07/10/2019 09:15

I agree it was probably a child, DH is a wind-up, but he's also a terrible liar and would have laughed when confronted if it was him.

No meals out, although DD spends a lot of time out and at her friends house and has dinner there at least once a week. But she's a terrible liar too, I don't think she'd have been able to keep the joke going for too long without confessing.

No tradesmen, only visitor has been my mother, but she's not the winding up type.

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BanKittenHeels · 07/10/2019 09:17

Amazing.
See I would see those stones and feel compelled to add something to them. I’d normally go with googly eyes or a tiny dog ornament from a charity shop but a potato is a stroke of genius.

Watching with internet.

FriedasCarLoad · 07/10/2019 09:18

If it’s been there a couple of weeks, maybe your child put it there but has genuinely forgotten doing it?

CollaterlieSistersSister · 07/10/2019 09:19

Birdseye

(Unless you’re a fan of a recently ended podcast, that may mean nowt.)

sittingonacornflake · 07/10/2019 09:21

Wait, this isn't how one serves potatoes to guests??

BanKittenHeels · 07/10/2019 09:22

I once put a chicken nugget in my friends handbag.

I need to know more.

WatcherintheRye · 07/10/2019 09:26

Watching with internet.
And interest? Grin

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 07/10/2019 09:37

This type of thread is the reason I love MN Grin

Oakmaiden · 07/10/2019 09:41

Yeah. If this happened in my house it would be difficult to find the culprit too. Because, frankly, any of the 4 of them would think this was a hilarious thing to do.