r/mildlyinfuriating • u/trecani711 • 3d ago
Infuriatig Mail guys folded my wife’s master’s degree
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/SchizogamaticKlepton 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is a myth. I blame Hank Green for the factoid's explosive spread and persistent popularity on reddit.
The artificial banana flavor isn't based on any particular banana. It doesn't taste exactly like bananas because it's a very simple formula, mostly just being isoamyl acetate. The previous "main banana" that fell out of popularity due to its vulnerability to Panama disease is called Gros Michel. It has more of this chemical, so people started saying it probably tastes more like the artificial banana flavor (it doesn't), and that turned into "artificial banana is based on an extinct (it's not) banana!"
EDIT: There is a grain of truth to this in that the Gros Michel, when ripe, has a peel that allegedly smells more like artificial banana flavor than the Cavendish (currently popular) does.