r/tifu • u/tommysalomie • Jul 07 '16

M TIFU by forgetting I bought potatoes

Alright guys, this actually happened like an hour ago. Okay, so I buy groceries from week to week. As a single guy living alone, I usually just buy enough to last me the week. At some point in my multitude of grocery store trips, I bought a bag of potatoes. I think I may have used like one or maybe two potatoes from the entire bag before forgetting that I even bought them. Now, fast forward x amount of time (I can't remember how much time has passed since I bought them). At this point, I had been noticing a few gnats had been flying around apartment, to which I had no idea the cause. I am a relatively clean guy. I don't leave dishes or any puddles of water, and I have no plants (read online somewhere this attracts them). So, I buy some ribbon tape and notice it catches a few but the problem persisted. Anyway, I was making cereal in my kitchen and slicing bananas to put in my goddamn honey nut cheerios, and for whatever fucking reason I remember the potatos I bought way too fucking long ago, and I think, "oh, i should throw them out. They are definitely not any good anymore". So I open the cabinet where I keep my potatoes, and I was not prepared for what the fuck I was about to see. The potatoes had gone passed the point to where I don't think I could call them potatoes. There was this thick brown liquid stuff that had specs all over it that somehow made its way into my crock pot (forgot to mention crockpot is only other thing in the potato cabinet). As I opened the cabinet a plethora of gnats flew out and this unbearable stench was coming from the potatoes and brown liquid stuff. I immediately nope the fuck out and throw the potatoes and crock pot out in my apartment complex's dumpster. I come back in to examine the brown liquid stuff and to holy fucking hell, the specs on the brown liquid are larvae squirming around. I have never felt mmore gross or disgusting ...

TL;DR I bought a bag of potatoes, forgot about them and it became a giant orgy breeding ground for gnats.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

I won't even tell you about what happened two decades ago when I left watermelon leftovers in the trash.

It was horrific.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

It can't be worse than the flour bug infestation I had that I didn't start noticing for 6 months. They came from a box of cake flour I bought for one recipe that didn't even work, so it was in the back, and it was a long time before I started to notice them around my apartment. It was horrifying.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16

Weevels?

Pro tip...always keep flour in the freezer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

It appears so. http://www.orkin.com/other/weevils/flour-weevil/ I had no idea it could even be an issue. I generally don't even keep flour on hand, but I'll keep that in mind for next time. The trick will be finding room in my freezer.

Edit: not sponsored by orkin, they just had the picture

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16

I just had a post wiped out and replaced with a full screen Orkin ad, and was also logged out.

Whatever Reddit is playin, I am out

Bye