Girlfriend hides a rotten potato in the kitchen of now-ex-boyfriend after moving out due to his entitled mother ruining all of her kitchenware: ‘Got even in my own way.’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 8, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

A woman came down on hard times and was welcomed to move into her boyfriend's house. She was grateful for the kindness and happy to try living with her boyfriend, however, there was one stipulation… He still lived with his mom. This mom is your typical entitled mother who hates every woman that tries to take her son away from her. So, there were snags in the living situation, to say the least. Finally, after months of passive aggressive comments and weird mental and emotional competitions, the girlfriend finally came face-to-face with her final straw. 

 

You see, the girlfriend had these really nice pot and pans, the kind you spend good money on. She used them to cook all of them a nice Thanksgiving dinner, but she had to rush off to work right afterwards. So the mother "oh so graciously" told her she would take care of the dirty dishes. Instead, she put them in heavy duty ziplock bags without washing them and stored them over the fridge to not be used until Christmas. When the girlfriend went to use them, they were completely ruined. 

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  • "Got even in my own way."

    Decades ago, I was in a relationship with a guy who lived with his mother. Things got a little tangled in my life, and I ended up living with them for about 6 months.
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  • This was my first experience living with someone outside my family. I had a set of really nice roasting pans that were my favorite for lasagna or pot roast, etc, and I used them that year to cook Thanksgiving dinner.
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  • I had to work that night, so his mother told me she would get things cleaned up. I had no reason to doubt her, because the kitchen was always reasonably clean.
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  • Got back the next morning, things are put away in their usual spots, food's safely stored in the fridge, the whole nine yards.
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  • Christmas rolls around, I take my pans off the top of the fridge, and out of their sealed bags to find a moldy, congealed mess of nasty turkey leftovers still in my now destroyed pan.
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  • I moved out over the next couple days, but before I left, I duct taped a potato to the back of the least-used drawer in the kitchen.
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  • BayAreaPupMom Did you ever find out what in God's name possessed the woman to seal up an unwashed pan and put it away? That's either another level of evil or insanity! jearu 573 OP I know she didn't like me. I corrupted her baby boy, but this did seem over the top.
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  • Worried_Suit4820 If you have never smelled a rotten potato it would be easy to underestimate the affect it has. Well played OP! rhk59 It's the worst!
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  • Mat7x I lived with my gf for 1 year in a little rented apartment, we bought a sack of potatoes and totally forgot its existence for months, as it was back in a drawer we barely used. We forgot it until we started smelling something awful, couldn't find the source. Until we could. Half of those potatoes were LIQUID, my god the stench... i can
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  • still smell it, i swear. Hours to clean that mess and i gagged the whole time. It happened a full year ago but it still disgusts me, i feel it everytime i see a sack of potatoes at the supermarket. I hope your ex's mom got the same experience.
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  • Interesting_B... Why on earth did she do that? Madness, positively unhinged to put your stuff away dirty. I might have sellotaped a mackerel fillet to the underside of the u-bend too
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  • Revenge is revenge and we'll take anything that serves a good dose of justice. A potato hidden in your ex's kitchen for them to never find as it rots and fills the place with a disgusting odor? Yes, please. That is GENIUS. 

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  • MotherGoose1957 Reminds me of the time I went out with a guy for a while. Eventually he invited me back to his place. I offered to cook lunch. When I opened his kitchen cupboards, every single pot or pan had a thick layer of congealed fat in it. I felt sick at the sight of it. Apparently he
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  • just used to heat them up, use them, then put them straight back in the cupboard. I cooked for him but I didn't eat, telling him I wasn't hungry. I never went back to his place again and we didn't last long after that.
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  • Known-Skin3639 Only one? I'd have put a can of tuna in the return air cavity for the ac. It could've hidden easily and most likely no one would think to check for quite some time. You can do evil things with canned tuna. In oil works best. Just sayin.
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  • Neverswept Most people greatly underestimate the bio-weapons potential of the potato; not you! Genius.
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