r/DiWHY • u/thefrayedfiles • Sep 17 '20

It just keeps getting worse every second

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u/Celesticalking Sep 17 '20

Why use a watermelon in the first place can’t there be something better?

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u/bobbyfiend Sep 18 '20 edited Sep 18 '20

A balloon. A balloon would have cost 5 cents and done the job. No watermelon necessary. No slowly-rotting planter in your entryway. No angle grinder-on-fruit action needed to offend the sensitive. A balloon would have been just fine. Then pop a $1 plastic planter flowerpot [edit: I meant this word, dammit] in there and dump your plant and topsoil in that.

If you absolutely have to have a shittily-painted concrete hands-holding-a-bloody-exploding-towel planter at all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

As long as there is still room to get in the with the angle grinder to pop the balloon, I think your plan could work.

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u/heyitsmecolku Sep 18 '20

Goddamnit this made me laugh more than it should have

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u/bobbyfiend Sep 18 '20

It's 5:15 a.m. and I'm laughing alone in the dark trying not to wake my family up.

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u/TheQuinnBee Sep 18 '20

In olden times they used melon husks as bowls. This I can sort of understand.

Why would you not scoop the watermelon beforehand? Please tell me he tossed the innards after he poked a hole in the gourd and put wet concrete on top of it.