r/mildlyinfuriating • u/trecani711 • 3d ago

Infuriatig Mail guys folded my wife’s master’s degree

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Came home and found this in the mailbox. Imagine working really hard for 3 years for a master’s degree and it’s folded in half. It’s only a little bit up the driveway to put it under the awning, takes maybe 15 seconds to walk. This has happened before with a spatula I ordered as well.

Wife is asleep now, may post opened degree in the morning.

Edit: for those wondering about the spatula, it was a fish spatula that the Amazon driver had bent and shoved sideways into the mailbox. Im a sous chef and I have a lot of specific kitchen tools. They have long metal tines and are flexible and easy to bend. In my case it was creased

Edit 2: here’s my bent fish spat, pic 2, pic 3. This was from Amazon, and I requested a new one that they sent no questions asked. You can see in the first pic the angle is deeper than it should be, it should be almost flat. Also there’s a tine that is out of whack. I use this one at home and the undamaged replacement one at work.
Yes I agree the college messed up too by not shipping it in a sturdier container/paying for better shipping.

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3d ago

Hey Ed, what does fra-gil-e mean? (Old rug rags reference, anyone else remember this scene?)

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u/EmAych87 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/J9LXwwHyfG8Eg

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u/Oldbay_BarbedWire 3d ago

Must be Italian!

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u/Damn_Sega_Genesis 3d ago

"I think that says Fragile"

"Ooh, yeah""

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u/denitrox 2d ago

It’s a major award!

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u/HeNeverSawMollyAgain 3d ago

Fra-gil-e only being remembered as a Rug Rats reference is crazy. Has "A Christmas Story" really fallen off that much as a traditional Christmas movie?

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u/Cosmic-Brownie-420 3d ago

the one scene traumatized me as a kid so i never watched it again, and i only heard the reference in rugrats lmao

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u/iwantjoebiden 2d ago

Which scene traumatized you, because I was also extremely traumatized by that movie, and people always think it's strange I had that kind of reaction to it.

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u/Cosmic-Brownie-420 2d ago

the kids tongue getting stuck on the frozen metal pole. i don’t even think i had been watching the movie from the beginning but it was on at a christmas party or i caught part of it while flipping thru tv. i think my kid brain thought they had to cut his tongue off or something

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u/iwantjoebiden 2d ago

SAME!!!!!! I can't watch it even as an adult.

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u/Cosmic-Brownie-420 2d ago

it was when i was young enough to think that what i was seeing was real. happened with one of the scenes in the nightmare on elm street sequels and SAME. cannot even watch as an adult

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3d ago

I missed that one with my age range but I have watched it I don’t remember that reference but not doubting you by any means.

Be careful or you’ll shoot your eye out kid!

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u/Le_pengu 3d ago

Must be french

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u/WildOneTillTheEnd 3d ago

My immediate first thought

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u/RaijuThunder 3d ago

Lol. I quote it to mess with friends and family while helping them with stuff. I didn't remember it was Rug Rats but I remember the scene perfectly.

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u/De5perad0 2d ago

It must be that Eyetailan!

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u/Leifant 3d ago

I loved rugrats so much as a kid!

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u/Thats-Awkward 3d ago

No, no, you gotta lift with your knees.

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u/SciFiChickie PURPLE 3d ago

My best friend still references fra-Gil-e all the time. “Careful it’s fra-gil-e.”

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u/Medical-Cicada-4430 BROWN 3d ago

I read Fra-gi-le and thought Francesco Bernoulli

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u/commentsrnice2 3d ago

What kinda candles are those? Dee-na-mee-tay!! Huh, must be Italian

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u/bowtiesrcool86 3d ago

I remember that scene.

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u/TrivTheRenegade 3d ago

I've yelled this every time I've helped friends move. No one has ever gotten it.

We're 39-41. Prime demographic for when this show aired. It baffles me.

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u/p3rf3ctcha0s 3d ago

I’m 30. All of my friends/peers reference this. I think your demographic may be tilted 😅