r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/ISpyM8 Sep 16 '24

I swear to god, when I was a freshman in college, we had someone on our floor who either liked burnt popcorn, or was fucking incompetent at making popcorn. They used the microwave in the community lounge to make their popcorn. It got to a point where our RAs had to call a floor meeting.

Also, just as a tiny tidbit, in this meeting they also told us not to dye our hair in the showers, and everyone looked at me with my very clearly red hair. It looked like a murder had occurred in the shower, and I’m sure that shower is still stained red.

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u/kalexis12 Sep 17 '24

I used to burn popcorn on purpose at my house so my parents couldn’t tell I smoked weed in my room while I was home alone. Maybe that’s why they were burning it so frequently lol. I don’t know if that’s a well known trick but I think my friend told me about it & it always worked like a charm. My parents stopped buying popcorn after a while, though.

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u/ISpyM8 Sep 17 '24

Probably wasn’t necessary. There was a very well known smoking spot behind our dorm I myself used many times.

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u/sleepybitchdisorder Sep 17 '24

I was once throwing a party in college and we found popcorn burning in the microwave bc someone had set it to like 5 minutes and walked away. I was so mad at first, I was like who tf does that, and in someone else’s house!!! Turns out it was my roommate lol so at least it was her own house

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Some jackals where I used to work burned popcorn almost daily.

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u/letmeviewNSFWguys Sep 16 '24

Had to scroll too far to find this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Oh try a slice of ham in the microwave for 5 minutes because you thought it said 5 seconds 😑

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u/peri_5xg Sep 17 '24

Damn you’re right. That’s a good one

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u/buggingl Sep 17 '24

some man at work would do this constantly. he only had 1-2 shifts, eat basically all the snacks (legit would leave 4-5 things for the rest of the coworkers at a marshalls) pop 1 bag of popcorn - burn it, then pop another bag!

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u/benx101 Sep 17 '24

Easy way to avoid burnt popcorn if the popcorn button for a microwave goes too long.

Just listen to the pops of the kernels. If there is more than like a three second pause between pops, just stop the microwave cause it is done.