A good way of knowing whether or not you’re close with someone is if they send you the most random of things throughout the day. Things they just felt like showing you because they thought it was cool or interesting , and hope you do too.
This list is just a collection of weird pics that I personally find pretty cool, and I’m showing them to you because I think you might like them!
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“This house in my neighborhood that has no windows at all.”
People in the comments were saying how ‘fake’ houses have been used to disguise things like municipal water pumps, which could be what’s happening here, but I much prefer the idea brought up by a separate commenter, which is that a family of vampires lives here.
“Apparently my enchiladas have 2X the chicken required by the ‘Chicken Enchilada Standard’…?”
The Chicken Enchilada Standard was set by the Chicken Enchilada Council back in ’98. It determines the exact ratio required of each ingredient in a chicken enchilada, and the fines issued should those requirements not be met.
Not to be confused by the Vegetarian Enchilada Council’s standard, which is a lot more flexible.
“There was a straight up 4 oz chunk of Doritos seasoning in the bag.”
Taking a bite of that chunk would be life-changing, but maybe not in a good way.
It’d send your brain into a flavor-induced shock, wherein you’d leave your body, floating through space for hours while being shown the secrets of the universe, just to return and find out only five seconds have passed.
“Buddy of mine had a squirrel steal his porch pumpkin and drag it into a tree.”
At that point, yeah, sure, the squirrel can have it. He has more drive than I could ever hope to have, and he put in the work to get what he wanted, so he deserves that pumpkin more than me.
“This tree inside 7eleven.”
According to someone who lives nearby, when building this 7-11, everyone agreed that they wanted to preserve the tree that was there, so they just built around it.
Less convenient than a normal convenience store, but a lot more memorable!
“This water droplet dropped into the shape of a gun.”
The water in your house has had enough. It’s finally taking matters into its own hands. It doesn’t want to wash any more of your dirty dishes, nor does it want to stay running while you brush your teeth for two minutes. It’s demanding better treatment.
“None of the floors in the hotel I am staying at have the number 4 in them.”
There was actually an explanation for this in the comments. In many Eastern-Asian countries like Japan, China, and Korea, the number four is thought to be unlucky as it sounds almost exactly like the word for ‘death’.
It’s like seeing a building without a thirteenth floor, but more!
“An hour before sunrise, this is the glow of a tomato greenhouse over 10 miles away.”
So, when the sun finally explodes in a bajillion years, if we build enough giant tomato greenhouses before then, we should be fine? No eternal darkness forever for the human race? We’ll need heaters too, but it still seems pretty doable.
“This jacket has a little hole that you can see your watch through.”
This reminds me of what people in the ’50s thought the future was going to be like. It was either crazily outlandish things like flying cars, or oddly simple things like this that could have existed at the time, but didn’t.
“This gigantic fan at my gym.”
This is…unsettling. I’m already one of those people that’s convinced every ceiling fan is going to fall on me when I sit under it, so being under this beast would not help that worry. It’d worsen it, actually.
“5L tub of mayonnaise I found.”
“Who even buys a 5L tub of mayo?” you ask.
“Probably restaurants and food carts,” I answer.
I may sound confident, but in the back of my mind, I am haunted by the image of one human person buying this tub and using all of it themselves. We all fear that person.
“I caught a potato at the Christmas parade.”
Is there some sort of Christmas tradition surrounding potatoes that we’re all collectively blanking on, or is this truly weird? Like, A free vegetable is nice, especially one as versatile as a potato, but it’s a strange occasion for it.
“This bike I [saw] outside a grocery store.”
It looks strange at first, but when you think about it, it’d work just the same. It might be a little weird to get used to, but I’m sure you’d get the hang of it!
It’s also a great bike-thief deterrent. Who would want to steal this?
“This snake I found in a can last summer.”
Cool, now I have an even worse fear than a wasp flying into my cans while I’m not looking.
Easier to spot, but going to take a drink and feeling scales against my lips would have me screaming for sure.
“A fire hydrant in Tokyo Japan.”
Aww! This is so cute, those firefighters are doing a great job. Tiny little design changes like this to make the mundane appear more cute and colorful really does wonders to the psyche, it should be adopted in more places!
“My local meat pie shop puts the animal on top so you can tell what type it is.”
This would have saved me a lot of strife as a kid. My mom and I used to get meat pies all the time, and while I was a steak and onion fan, she was a steak and kidney fan. That was not a mix-up that 12-year-old me enjoyed.
“A man that makes fake eyes came into my work today and had one in his pocket.”
Making glass eyes is a really particular and detailed art that can take years to master, providing an invaluable resource to those who’ve lost an eye.
The ones that make them tend to be some pretty big weirdos, though. Who just carries a glass eye in their pocket? Even if they made it?
“The way this ice cube melted in my soup.”
Those are some pretty solid walls you got there. Can a soup that thick still be considered soup? At that point, it’s a paste. You could slather that between some bricks and they’d be cemented into place in no time.
“[Look] at the size of this traffic cone!”
That dude on the right has nerves of steel. He’s totally unphased by the gigantic traffic cone next to him, even though that cone is definitely sizing him up for a fight. It’d be a pretty even match, cones are known to be scrappy.
“No dents for this guy. The cones are a nice touch.”
It’s a little silly looking, but who can blame them for wanting to protect their nice, new car? They’re doing so respectfully, staying in their spot and all that, just with some cushions to catch any accidental (or purposeful) blows.
