'Have empathy for your #plantbased neighbours': Vegan wants neighbors to cook meat with their windows closed

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 27, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

This runner would really, really like their neighbors to be a little more understanding, though the neighbors probably think this person is asking too much of them. 

This is a wild tale of a neighbor who thinks the world should revolve around them — specifically, they'd like the neighbors to be considerate during their runs. In a post to the Boulder Collective group, this person asked as a "gentle reminder" that folks in the neighborhood who are cooking meat for dinner should shut their windows. Why? So they don't have to smell any meat cooking while they runs through the neighborhood!

I know what you're thinking — who would ever say such a thing? Is this a joke? Well, in the comments, lots of people dropped their own anecdotes about these types of situations in their own lives. Perhaps it's more common than you'd think to have neighbors concerned about what their neighborhood should smell like, or to have disagreements regarding food. 

However, I hope that the vegan runner never finds out that people grill outdoors all summer long in many places! Maybe it's time for them to get an indoor treadmill if the smell is so bothersome during their daily exercise. 

Next up, this friend group is really hoping that one of their friends sees the waving red flag in her BF's strange behavior while at a restaurant. 

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    Font - Boulder Collective Group member. 32m. Just a gentle reminder to pleases close your windows when cooking meat. As a vegan runner it is always hard for me. I try to go out running several nights a week around dinner time. When you are cooking with the windows open the smell of meat can be quite over powering. Honestly the odor is offensive. Please have empathy for your #plantbased neighbours by closing windows when cooking meat and only cooking vegetables if possible. I do not want to be a
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    People were stunned at the post! But in the comments, lots of people noted that they knew people who did this kind of thing.

    Font - Rougescholar 76. 1 day ago This has to be a troll.
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    Font - DFWTooThrowed 23 hr. ago There was a similar story about someone who moved right by a huge bbq spot in Austin and complained to the city about the bbq smell. Did they never notice the smell when touring the place before they bought it? Then again it is Texas and people buying houses sight unseen from out of state isn't unheard of.
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    Human body - Business-Travel-4597 21 hr. ago That's literally how people in boulder are. Next door boulder is the worst.
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    Font - Secure-Positive5733 22 hr. ago Right? Please please tell me this is fake ded 2 Reply Share oegin 15 hr. ago This is actually real. Happened in Berkeley, CA. I live in Oakland so I remember when it was getting posted a bunch.
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    Font - HistoricalFunny4864 21 min. ago My neighbors posted something like this on next door... except they were complaining about people in the neighborhood grilling out/ how the smell from grilling would waft in through the veg posters open windows. They wanted people to stop grilling so they could continue to leave their windows open.
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    Human body - StallOneHammer. 1 day ago I literally cannot namaste in these conditions
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    Font - AlpineTG 1 day ago Namasteak
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    Font - monkytrick 1 day ago One of the hardest parts of being vegan is knowing that other vegans do this s and think they're helping. I'm sorry y'all. 45 d Reply Share GrimReader 710 23 hr. ago I love that in your comment you also found a subtle way to include that you yourself are vegan. Pro lvl vegan move right there. All the Namastes be into you brother
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    Font - velawesomeraptors 20 hr. ago I've known a bunch of people who were vegan and never really brought it up unless we were going out to eat or something. But then there was one vegan roommate I had who brought it up nonstop and would spray Febreze at me when I was cooking meat in the shared kitchen lol.
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    Human body - killcon13 1 day ago A vegan literally has a beef with her neighbors. Epic.
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    Font - turbolicous69 - 1 day ago Lol the audacity
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    Font - Obligation Pleasant45 1 day ago Saw this in real time, it's a good one!
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    Font - leton Gee LIGHT Shine . BeTheLight24-7 - 1 day ago Bet this person doesnt run in the parks while people are BBQing. How bout the vegans just hold their breath for the short glide out of area, and allow people to do what they want. The last thing I think about when I'm cooking meat is the vegan Runner.
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    Font - BlackFrazier 1 day ago . This person must be forgetting outdoor grills exist. I'll make sure to throw away my grill so as to not offend them.
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    Human body - zenos_dog 20 hr. ago Warning: I will be grilling a pork tenderloin this evening. North Boulder alert.
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