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My one friend and I have been leaving odd gifts on my friend's car with notes like "I think this fell out of your car" nothing of value. Nothing that can damage the vehicle.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A balloon filled with helium tied to the handle. (How did that "fall out"?)

A gallium coin (if it's cold outside then it'll stay solid and then melt when they put it in their pocket).

An opened (but unused) bandaid. The biggest one you can find. Stick it to the handle so it flaps around and they have to choose between touching the gauze (it's clean, but they don't know that) or the sticky part to pull it off.

A household smoke detector. Use a piece of string to tie it to the handle.

Baby shoes. Again, tie them to the handle.

7 worms in a bag. They're lucky.

Whenever you go into a gas station, buy a random keychain and put that on there. Watch your friend start drowning in keychains.

Christmas lights. Just all of them. All the Christmas lights all over the car. But make sure to thread them through the driver-side handle and include your "I think you dropped this" note.

[–] kamen 37 points 2 months ago

Baby shoes. Again, tie them to the handle.

Bonus points if you print out this comic and put it right next.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A gallium coin

This could be quite harmful though. Gallium reacts with metals like aluminum and steel in strange and destructive ways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's true, but if the car is cheap plastic, then it might be fine.

(For those not familiar with gallium, it's basically mercury but safe; so it's a liquid at room temperature but a solid just below that, depending on where you live, without the risk of Mad Hatter's disease)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That’s true, but if the car is cheap plastic, then it might be fine.

Until it leaks out of their pocket inside the warm car and drips onto the seat rails, or something similar.

[–] BoxOfFeet 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Once in their pocket, if they are some kind of madman that doesn't have a dedicated phone pocket and they have a phone with an aluminum frame, that's a recipe for disaster as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I say we just scrap this whole gallium coin thing

[–] sir_pronoun 4 points 2 months ago

A gallium coin!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One serving of peanut butter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They do make little 1-serving packets of PB, kind of like the ones for BBQ sauce or honey mustard. Sometimes you can find them at hotel continental breakfasts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...continental breakfast ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Powdered eggs, frosted flakes, raisin bread toast, waffle with jam instead of syrup

[–] hoshikarakitaridia 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • one penny
  • marbles (something something lost their marbles)
  • a lego brick
  • origami crane
  • notes saying ridiculous stuff like "remember to water your car before you leave" or "this car belongs to [your name and address]"
  • a very embarrassing mini figure like maybe barbie, winx club, things like that
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don’t dox it only takes one piece of shit for it to become a problem.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia 8 points 2 months ago

Oh you mean the handle outside of the door ..

For some reason I thought the item holder in the car door that's accessible from inside the car only.

Yeah no doxxing then, ofc.

[–] ZapBeebz_ 12 points 2 months ago

A screw, bolt, nut, etc. that could feasibly have come from the car itself

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

A very tacky car freshener. Some are dirt cheap, the cardboard ones I'm talking about. Pick a design that is silly or ugly for them... Or maybe a fragrance that you know they're not a fan of

[–] comfyquaker 8 points 2 months ago

First 5 things off the top of my dome:

a lego figure, woodwind reed, mahjong tile, plastic spider ring, a tiny canister of tic-tacs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A dozen wasps.

Level of aliveness is irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What if he works at the Wasp Containment Facility?

Remember, we’re trying to avoid NSFW

[–] weeeeum 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A couple spoonfuls of spaghettios. You know, as a snack.

[–] BoxOfFeet 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oo, a ziploc bag full of spaghettios

[–] weeeeum 2 points 2 months ago

No. Just spaghettios.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] x00z 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A pocket dimension that warps back around to the car itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where can I get one of those?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In your pocket

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"I think you dropped this" and its just a big dollop of Vaseline right on the handle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Roll up a 'trump 2024' poster. Pikachu keychain. Pom Poms' from the dollar store. Tie a pool noodle to the driver side doors (with a bow knot that can be undone easily). A really long striped stocking, hot pink or some neon color.

[–] PrimarilyPrimate 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A half of a sandwich with a few bites taken out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Meals that either came to naught or have a bite of nibbled rinds.

Hanging on the handle of your car door is your lunch today.

the time has come, the comment’s over.

Thought this would sound cooler than it does

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

An old shoe. Just one. You can even tie it on by the laces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Rubber chicken. Though don't do that to Jair Bolsonaro car, then it would be NSFW object.

[–] flubba86 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Snack bar wrappers. Really weird ones that only really little kids love.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This was a delight

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Make a plaster mould of the exact shape of the inside of the handle so it's really annoying to take out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Underwear, either gender. Though you said no value, so uh, dryer lint? Clothes pins? Dog biscuits? A dog poop bag with pudding in it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A toothbrush.