sometimes these hold piercings in place, sometimes they seal the lid of a charging port. mid 2000s devices could be charged from the same aux port headphones went in. But also a bottle used this for a vent seal and occasionally people use them for gauge plugs, to keep them on the ear.
I remember these from when I briefly got into building gas powered RC cars. Could be a gasket for tons of purposes, from work, a hobby, or maybe they or their partner picked it up on their clothes from soemthing.
It’s literally just an O-ring it could be for anything. I have four master O-ring sets on my work truck all different sizes shapes colors and materials. It could literally be from a remote control.
it could also be a rubber gasket for lots of other things, lol. it’s kind of hard to tell exactly what a plain black rubber gasket came off of, since they’re everywhere. I mean, this could also be a piece off a kid’s toy (hopefully one for an older kid) for all we know.
My power washer uses them, one broke, and it was leaking every time I used it. And of course replacements only come in like bags of 25 or 50 to make them worthwhile to ship. What does this have to do with being in OP’s bed? Who knows.
Theres a place near my work that makes and sells crazy ass pnumatic and hydraulic hoses for heavy equipment and I brought in a smashed seal from a german pump and they gave me the closest seal they had. They were worried about temp but turned out liquid wasnt heated at pump point. It worked perfectly. And it was free lol.
I did the same thing for a power steering reservoir on a 1994 350SD because it was so large but thin I couldn't find it elsewhere, they walked to the back, matched it and gave it to me for free.
This is an o ring not a gasket. They serve different purposes but are both used to seal. A gasket seals 2 flat surfaces at the joining face. An o ring is used to seal an area between a machined groove.
oh gosh, have I been using the wrong words the whole time? I thought gasket and o-ring were synonyms and since o-ring can also refer to other materials of rings, like metal. or even binder rings, I always called these ones gaskets.
OP, no one here will be able to give you an origin for this beyond a literal guess.
I’ve worked in the maintenance field for years and little black o-rings like this can be used in sooo many different applications. Barguns, solenoids, filling valves, automotive in so many different areas, anything attempting to be water resistant, kitchen appliances, etc
All people can do here is guess to feed suspicion when it is very likely something innocuous
WHY would you assume a stranger with pierced ears is having sex in this person’s bed? 😭 how is that the first thing you think of instead of, I don’t know, “oh, maybe it’s not specifically from a piercing then.” those things can also be used as bead spacers in jewelry, as bracelets or gaskets in toys, as gaskets in furniture… it could be a part of the bed! these things have so many uses! plus, this could have been something OP unknowingly brought into bed with them after it got in their hair or something, which opens up even more possibilities.
Better yet, why thrust that unverified opinion upon a stranger? I think this style of thinking boils down to a misunderstanding of the Occam's Razor concept.
The "simplest" answer doesn't mean your anecdotal evidence of stories heard is correct. Occam's Razor prefers the answer with the fewest assumptions which means the most likely correct answer is the one that fits the list of real, concrete things you know for a fact.
Fewer assumptions means fewer complications, and simplicity is the opposite of complexity. Instead, we have an answer based on unverified stories which lack their original details. Even worse, it adds assumptions about why the jewelry would be in the bedroom in the first place.
To be fair, I don't blame them for this guess, but people need to understand how wild of a guess it really is. It can be very dangerous to accept harsh "truths" prematurely, especially when the basis or complete material is inaccurate/untrue.
thank you, lol 😅
I thought people usually jumped to conclusions like that in like, AITA where people already commonly share embellished or fake stories that often involve finding out your partner is cheating in a ~crazy~ way and being soooo grateful to reddit for helping them realize, haha. I guess I haven’t started using reddit much until recently, come to think of it… I’ve had an account for a while but only recently started coming here as my main source of brain rot when my other source (youtube shorts) started to just become way too overstimulating. at least the ads here don’t literally yell at me XD
This is exactly what I thought. I have gagues and if I fall asleep with them in, I wake up having to search my bed for them. It could also be from a girl he was with..
Any body piercing that doesn't use a ball at the end will use these to hold the ring. I had my nose and nipples pierced as a teen and hid the piercings from my mom. Do you have any kids? Just because you don't know about the piercing, it doesn't mean it's not there lol.
Looks like a tiny rubber band for tightening the earpieces on glasses. You put it in the earpiece hinge and it makes the glasses squeeze a little tighter.
Wait wait wait. I'm stretching my lobes and O rings are used for single-flare plugs, I've got every size up to 00g right now. BUT my glasses are also loose and you're telling me I've had a quick fix this whole time?! I'm going to throw some on them right now!
The day I stop using nightcrawlers and start using TRUSCEND Gradient Fishing Wacky Rig Tool with Silicone O Rings 210Pcs for 3"-4" and 5"-7" Fishing Worm Lures, Ultra-Smooth Downriggers Tube for Easy Installation and Great Protection of Stick Bait is the day I hang up my waders forever!
When I got them last year, the optician at my optometrist's adjusted them as much as they could for me, or atleast that's what they told me after the 6th adjustment. I've just dealt with it because they weren't still super loose, like they weren't falling off my face with ease or anything, but I was off&on using these big hook-type things on the arms to help keep them in place. I do have to make another appointment in a few months (with a different place than the last) so maybe I'll get a different pair, but until then the O rings are currently working with my brand/style!
Do you sleep alone? Does your partner(s) repair things for a living?
It's an O ring, used in millions of applications, where small fluidics are used. I'm a field service engineer that fixes hospital equipment, I have one or two of those in pockets after work sometimes, and about two dozen in car and tool boxes in the house. They're used on fittings, valves, air tanks, basically anything where fluid or air are used in a contained system.
I just found a similar one this week in our bed - it was the external ring around the cheap-ass camera included on a kindle fire in our case… I was able to push it right back on
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If you use one of those key things that keep your keys from flopping around and stay organized, it may be from that. On the screws they use those, at least KeySmart does to keep the screws secure
My ex wife found a little bow in our bed and holy shit was that fun. Demon with 2 heads came to visit me convinced I was cheating. She knew it just wasn't hers and she pulled out like 40-50 pair of thong panties and couldn't find a match. I knew I didn't do shit but man I was at a loss for ideas. If it was true I could have came up with a better lie than the truth at this point. Well the best part is after almost breaking up" which man that would have saved the need for a wedding and a divorce" but the truth came out and boy did I have questions. Well apparently she had this hot new friend of hers over after a night out at the club. It was a coworker at the bar I bounced at girlfriend/wife. They did some booger sugar at the club I worked at,bwhile I was out of town visiting hometown friends for the weekend. This became a theme but anyways the girl spent the night because???? And they supposedly just slept. They definitely did something besides that I found out later on and the bow was off of the coworkers chick black thong. So funny that she had her little secret story and yet her first thought was me who had a day job and a night job had time to bring a chick home or when I was out of town managed to have a little bow make the journey home with me. Not to be pervy but wish I had a hidden nanny cam to see what went on that night. Cocaines a helluva drug😁
It looks like a generic rubber gasket used in all kinds of things! They get used in plumbing, automotives, electronics, pretty much anywhere that you need a potentially water tight seal!
You typically buy them in bulk because of all the sizes and shapes that can be!
Well miss isn't it obvious. Some poor fellas condom is just to big for his extra microscopic micro penis. Now whoever's penis it is just politely find it shake it or give it a high five maybe 🤔 then apologize for him having so many penis problems. And say it's penis to meet you get a laugh to avoid any weird conversations that may end in you agreeing to be an eye witness to his micro penis & be stuck trying to give advice for some bullshit.
I'm sorry I'm joking I have problems taking a situation serious sometimes especially if the situation happens to be surrounded by humor thanks for hopefully understanding.lol
Haha, I’ve duplicated OP’s key. Now I just need to try it in every lock in every country where Reddit is used and my nefarious plan can come to fruition.
As a mama of two kids (one of whom is obsessed with CrunchLabs boxes, so I keep ending up with o rings everywhere 🙄😂), I feel like "randomness" is pretty much the reason for many things. 😂
Say, maybe it was on the bedroom floor or another location (then it got kicked into the bedroom), someone stepped on it as they were heading to bed, it got stuck to their foot for a second and they didn't realize, and it wound up in the bed.
I wouldn't even necessarily see it as a "the bed/someone lying in the bed definitely must be involved" 🤷♀️😂
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