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electric_blue68

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Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:22 PM Sep 28

A teeny gltch in the matrix...

So I'm in our assisted living place dining room for dinner. Sometimes we have have paper type plates, and plastic ware vs the usual ceramic dishes & metal utensils.

We get soup before the main choices. I open my bigger black (vs white) plastic ware.
A fork, and a knife.
Minus both spoons! Of course, I then get a proper set.

So today I'm wondering thinking of the films you'd see of, say, of bottles being filled in mass production.

Is there like a single catchment holder where each untensil is dropped into, or are they all dropped in at once. Then the batch is wrapped up in plastic.

Anyway, if a separate drop for each- did one person eventually get the mysterious set with the missing spoons included.
So they get: 1 fork, 1 knife, 2 soup spoons, and 2 regular spoons.

Idk why I find that hilarious, but I do! 😄

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A teeny gltch in the matrix... (Original Post) electric_blue68 Sep 28 OP
The trick is not to try and [obtain] a spoon Alpeduez21 Sep 28 #1
🤔 electric_blue68 Sep 28 #6
Schrodinger's Cat. Totally Tunsie Sep 28 #7
Or you could ask JoseBalow Sep 28 #2
*Gasp*!" electric_blue68 Sep 28 #5
Well, people do mix things up sometimes. eppur_se_muova Sep 28 #3
Even a Big cat likes a box! 😄 electric_blue68 Sep 28 #4
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