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Trusting someone with your favorite cookware should not require a post-holiday inspection.

This woman returned from work believing her boyfriend’s mother had cleaned and stored everything properly.

Instead, one disgusting Christmas discovery inspired an unusually patient form of kitchen revenge.

Let’s dig into this rotten situation.

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.

This was my first experience living with someone outside my family.

His mother seems like a nice person.

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.

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.

Got back the next morning, things are put away in their usual spots, food’s safely stored in the fridge, the whole nine yards.

It turns out his mother DIDN’T clean the pans!

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.

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.

That is so weird! Why would her boyfriend’s mother but the pans away without cleaning them? How disgusting!

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

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You can learn a lot about someone by seeing where they live.

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OP discovered month-old turkey leftovers had been sealed inside and destroyed her favorite roasting pan.

Before moving out, she duct-taped a potato behind the kitchen’s least-used drawer and left quietly.

Her pan spent a month cultivating mold, so the departing potato received plenty of time to develop its own personality.