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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... [View all]

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... [View all] 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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