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

[Mitebiteatnite]

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?!

Did one of the kids smuggle it in from
a school dinner and they're just excellent at poker face?

ByeGerms it wouldn't have been DD as, looking at her lunch transactions online, she only ever eats a chicken salad baguette, carrot sticks and a rainbow cookie. Every single day.

I'll have to check DS lunch menu to see if he's had new potatoes at any point recently.

They cover their tracks well unwanted leftover from the plate of a fellow student?

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

Me too 😂

Put me in the giggly corner too

Do you do "potatoes in stockings for naughty children"? Maybe they see it as putting a potato in your stocking.

Who do you suspect the most? Move the potato where they’ll find it, maybe on their shoe or something. (Or bin this one and use a fresh one, keep the sneaky potato going)

It doesn't look cooked or coated in butter.

I don't put things in people's houses. Put I did set my DDIL Alexa to meaow every ten minutes. She was looking a cat for ages.
It was a giggling mess when she phoned me in the way home

I'd start putting random veg around the house for the others to find.

I once stole the white ball from the snooker table in college and put it in the fruit bowl in the canteen, so I think this prank is equally funny .

It's the kind of thing I'd have done as a prank when I was a kid, and I was very good at acting the innocent when questioned.

whoever did this has made me chuckle!!
And agree that other stone looks very much like a mouldy old potato. I think someone's taking the Micky out of your little display

It's DH. His comment on your potato-like pebbles.

As well as the potato and the mouldy potato, there are what look like three others in that bowl 🧐

Whoever did this deserves a round of applause. It's the kind of thing I'd do and it would have me laughing out loud every time I thought about it. 👏👏😂🤣😂🤣

My guess is one of the DCs, who feels a bit guilty about not eating it and therefore isn't saying.

Some years ago I found banana skins in my back garden. I asked next door's DD (about 5 at the time) if she knew who was throwing them over the fence. She very convincingly informed me that it was the aged Methodist minister who was staying with them at the time.

unwanted leftover from the plate of a fellow student?

Put in bag or pocket and rolled out unnoticed?

Or an old potatoes that's gone soft before it starts sprouting - could it have gone unnoticed since July?

In this house I'd blame the cats - any pets who could carry a potatoe?

@BanKittenHeels It was a big handbag and it took a while to find, think it was about a week later I got a sweary text message :)

Brilliant!

My friend and I do this in each other’s houses. Garlic bulbs hidden (the first one one wasn’t spotted for over a month), bottle of vinegar in the bathroom cabinet, pegs in random places. Let us know if any other root vegetables turn up in strange places

About ten years ago, a member of my family took to putting satsumas in random places around the house. They also inserted bus tickets in between the pages of a book I had just bought. I still don't know who did this, but if I ever mention it DH and the DS crease up with laughter. I suspect it may have been a combined effort and they're all in on it.

I suspect DD the most, because she is a total wind up merchant just like her dad. However she has the least opportunity to do so unnoticed. She's rarely indoors during daylight hours and when she is, she's upstairs in her room so uses the upstairs bathroom. In fact, it took her a good few weeks to realise it had even been decorated. She also has a terrible poker face.

DS is the best liar out of the 3 of them. But he is also a lazy little beast and if he was going to 'hide' a potato to get out of eating it, he'd just leave it lying on the floor and deny all knowledge of it.

DH isn't known for this brand of humour. He just prefers to hide around corners or sneak downstairs when I have the radio on loud and make me jump out of my skin. He also has a terrible poker face. If he's lying, his eyebrows wiggle uncontrollably like hairy little shivering caterpillars. There was no such wiggling when I confronted him.

My kids came home from school with all sorts of weird stuff. Seems like boys enjoy trying to sneak things into each others bags.

Does your DS have friends round? Maybe they've seen the decorations and thought they looked like potatoes and decided to add one.

I do not know the answer but this is a delightful thread. I must know whodunnit!