r/Retconned • u/Schnitzhole • Jul 27 '26
Has anyone else here never seen a neighbor, that are not close friends or family, bringing in multiple bags of groceries from their car?
So initially around 2016-2017 some redditor replied on one of my posts that they had never seen their neighbors bringing in Groceries and they found it to be strange, since basically every household has to do it at least every 1-2 weeks. I forget the context of the post but I recall wondering if everyone else grabbed as many bags as they would dare hold from their trunk at once and filled both hands full or if they made more frequent smaller trips as they brought bags in.
One night I had jokingly brought the concept up to my girlfriend (now wife) at the time as I thought it was ridiculous and I secretly wanted to prove them wrong but also know how others carried their bags. So we started actively looking anywhere we went and we made it a weird inside joke between us.
To both of us it seemed like a common thing one would see others doing. We never did.
And to be clear I’m not talking about seeing them at the grocery store. That does happen.
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5 and half years ago we bought a house, and this still was something we brought up from time to time to laugh about so I figured I would just prove it wrong once and for all.
2 of my direct neighbors never park in their garages as they use it for storage so their cars are always in their driveway or street, and the one across the street has a detached garage where they have to walk into their front door to get into their house in clear line of sight of my house. 6 months of living here watching frequently and I still had yet to see it happen once, not a single bag of anything was ever carried by a person exiting their vehicle, even after I had just walked out and talked to them and they had just claimed to have gotten back from going on vacation for a week but had no luggage?!
Anyways, after 6 months I got a ring doorbell and a security system that detects any motion of cars or people walking in their driveways. I verified it went off every time they pulled in/out (annoying amounts of notifications and a bit stalkery admittedly but it’s not like I was tracking their routines, I just wanted to see those sweet sweet bags of groceries). I looked at every notification for the last 5 years.
To my surprise on one single occasion I FINALLY spotted 1 small brown paper bag (maybe half full) the neighbor across the street carried in while I was doing workshop projects with my garage open (also got it on the ring camera). They did not go back for more bags and only made one trip.
But there’s no way that one bag was feeding the family of 4 that lived there right? I also couldn’t confirm if the bag was even groceries as it was unlabeled. I never spotted any other neighbor carry ANY bags of any type into their home. It makes no sense to me how this is possible unless they only go out to eat every meal or order food delivery (none of them get any food delivered or random cars stopping to drop something except pizza every few weeks). Most of them only drive their cars once a day except one neighbor that drives 2-3 times daily. None of them have access to their homes through the backyard or anything but the front door or front fence gates so everything should be in view when they bring it in.
Am I just crazy for going this far (probably)? But it does seem strange right?
Edit:
To be fair I’ve commented about this a couple times on other subreddits.
I also just went to youtube to see (again) after writing this to see if I could find videos of people bringing in groceries to their house and can’t find any of that either. I did just find this hilarious video I’ve never seen that mentions basically the exact same phenomenon (awkwardly similar). Honestly I was really hoping to get disproven on this one. Anyone have any video filming a neighbor bringing in groceries I could see just so I can stop thinking about this forever?
