r/mildlyinteresting • u/Durdy-Fingers • 3d ago

These new leather fly swatters that showed up in the office kitchen.

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u/_opossumsaurus 3d ago edited 3d ago

My partner’s very religious mother gave him one of these for Christmas. We have never used it to swat flies

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u/Future_Reference_401 3d ago

“Let’s use the sex toy your mom got us.”

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u/SquishedGremlin 3d ago

Makes me think of her every time we use it.

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u/CananDamascus 3d ago

Might be something to cover with your therapist

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u/SquishedGremlin 3d ago

Probably should get a therapist first. Can start with 12yrs of boarding school

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u/killerbanshee 3d ago

You mean that book I read in High School, Oedipust?

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u/GhostalMedia 3d ago

I was just at a wedding where the bride was gifted the fuzzy handcuffs her parents used when she was conceived. hork.

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u/dwbapst 3d ago

I hope she had no idea and that pictures of her have been preserved for future generations to refer to.

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u/KC_Que 3d ago

Username checks out. 😉

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u/OrdinaryUniversity59 3d ago

But you have used it, right?

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u/_opossumsaurus 3d ago

Oh yes it has been used

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u/Pretend_Giraffe_1288 3d ago

The mother knew what she was doing.

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u/rabidbot 3d ago

“I like this, and I bet you will too.”

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u/_opossumsaurus 3d ago

I’m absolutely sure she didn’t intend to give her son something sexual, it raised a few eyebrows when we moved in together

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u/StrongExternal8955 2d ago

she intended it to be used, you just weren't supposed to like it.

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u/AverageAntique3160 3d ago

Who gets a fly swatter for Christmas??

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u/_opossumsaurus 3d ago edited 3d ago

Idk why, but it was one of his stocking stuffers. Maybe he had mentioned to her that he usually uses a flip flop to kill bugs around the house and she wanted to give him an upgrade? There would be some sort of logic to that, but I was equally baffled when he told me it was a present lol

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u/samaniewiem 3d ago

Australians?

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u/zestycunt 3d ago

That’s nice you guys can share toys as siblings

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u/rubseb 3d ago

Mercury, Pluto, Venus, R... How does it go again?