
Woman Leaves Husband For 3 Weeks, Comes Back To Series Of Unfortunate Events
Interview With AuthorCooking is not a woman’s job — it’s a life skill. And Reddit user HollyCupcakez‘s husband probably needs to work on it.
In her candid post on the subreddit r/Stories, the wife explained that when she got back from her vacation, she found her partner had lost his culinary battle in the kitchen and was living off of fast food.
Considering that her trip lasted just a few weeks, it may have not been such a big issue. But the consequences were smelly!
This man couldn’t feed himself while his wife was away, so he turned to deliveries
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But eventually, his digestive system started complaining about it
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We got in touch HollyCupcakez and she said she’s very happy with her marriage.
“We’ve been together for like 10 years, married for the last 8 years and it’s been happy regardless of the gas problems,” the author of the post told Bored Panda. “He has to put up with my constant complaints all the time and the problems I keep bringing him because of my height and appearance because I’m 4’7″ and look like a 12-year-old girl.”
“I’ve accidentally gotten him detained by the police multiple times for ‘child luring’ because he’s a short bald and bearded guy with a brown hatchback who tends to circle the parking lot instead of parking so people have seen me yelling at a weird man in a car before running back into the Walmart, Weis, Giant, Ross, or other store and made the wrong assumptions.”
However, the woman said her husband’s cooking skills have always been “god-awful,” but that’s not a problem because she can do it for both of them. “He grew up in a very poor household where neither of his parents knew how to cook properly,” she explained.
As she was getting ready for the trip, the Redditor thought “he’d either order takeout every day, or eat some of the bulk foods he bought during the last year or so.”
“I knew he’d somehow manage to screw that up, but I didn’t expect him to disable every appliance in my kitchen except the sink and fridge itself, not counting the broken shelf.”
After her post went viral, the woman issued a few updates
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We all pass gas, but this sounds so excessive
All of us poop and all of us have gas. But the reasons why we break wind can be different, and sometimes it might be cause for concern.
“As a pediatric gastroenterologist, I get asked about this all the time,” says Dr. Mark Corkins, division chief of pediatric gastroenterology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
“There are two sources of ‘gas,’ and not all gas is gas. Part of what we pass is air. We all swallow some air, and some people swallow a lot of air. Now that seems to be odorless.”
Real gas, on the other hand, is primarily the byproduct of the fermentation of food in the colon, which has trillions of bacteria living in it, and if we don’t digest the food, the bacteria will.
People are different in terms of the way that their gastrointestinal tract functions, the microbiome that lives inside it, and what they eat — all those things are key factors in determining how often you pass gas, how much you pass gas, and what your gas smells like.
And even though gas isn’t as much of an indicator of gut health as bowel movement frequency and texture, dietary choices, as this story vividly illustrates, can certainly lead to more or less gas, because eating foods that are more difficult to digest makes it more likely to ferment.
While an occasional fast-food meal won’t hurt, making it a habit can do a number on our health. Let’s hope the man’s diet and his bodily functions will return to normal soon. For his own and his wife’s sake!
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The story cracked up a lot of people, and some of them criticized the husband
The post has received a lot of attention and its author didn’t think the reaction would be as funny as it was.
“I posted the story in the wrong subreddit because I meant to post it on r/PointlessStories and not r/Stories because it was a stupid [tale] about my husband’s ongoing gas problems that I think I’ve complained about before.”
Now, she’s “patiently waiting for the weird robot-voiced TikTok videos and other websites to steal my story and post it all over [the internet], which, apparently, has already happened!”
“[But] as long as they don’t figure out who we are in real life, I don’t see anything bad happening [from this]. I’m just a weird tiny person with weird issues who posts on Reddit about things that annoy me with some exaggerated details.”
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I laughed my a** off the more I read. Anybody else? I kept imagining the smells + noise. :)
I'm recovering from pneumonia, and I nearly died laughing!
Load More Replies...Man trusted a fart and sh*t all over the carpet. I'm just trying to picture this, was he standing? naked? was he squatting? again, naked, over the living room carpet? Like I had some stomach troubles recently myself and, you know, it happens, but nothing ended up all over the living room carpet??
Messy honeycomb poops while wearing loose shorts? And who eats the wax anyway?? I was entertained by this but also semi-horrified.
Load More Replies...As humorous as this is written, there’s a fundamental f*****g problem with a grown-a*s man who can’t cook, can’t use a stove, can’t evaluate the structural integrity of a refrigerator shelf & can’t eat basic or semi-nutritious food for a few weeks. This level of incompetence is beyond unattractive & offputting. It’s gross & ugly. I wonder what outstanding qualities he has that negates his inability to feed himself anything other that disgusting foodstuff.
I suspect the husband was higher than a kite for the whole time. When you are completely intoxicated on something you often make dumb choices. He was probably still high the morning after OP got home. At least the OP is making him clean up after some of his choices.
Load More Replies...People writing ""IT'S WEAPONIZED INCOMPETENCE" are, once again, throwing out terms that they don't understand, because it's the Evil De Jour of the Bad Spouse. Weaponized incompetence is when somebody doesn't want to do something, so they pretend to be unable to do it. This man WANTED to be home alone, taking care of himself. He wasn't trying to prove that she should have stayed home or that he should have gone with her. He does, however, sound like he was high and whatever he did seemed like a good idea "at the time". If he wasn't high he probably would have simply eaten barbeque every day or ordered different foods. Trying to cook 15 lb of lentils, eating 7 honeycombs, etc, all sound like the actions of somebody who is pretty high. No Weaponized Incompetence here at all, just moderate Incompetence magnified x100 by weed.
Yep, everything you said. Should Beavis & Butthead ever decide to become a trio, OP's hubby is a prime candidate to join them, lol!
Load More Replies...The thing about trusting a fart had me laughing hysterically. My dad has a creed his Pops taught him: Never waste an erection and never trust a fart. He's just come back from a vacation with his male friend and went on and on about how his friend believed the same thing. And it really has me wondering what happened on the trip and if there's something my mum ought to know.
This is the kind if s**t that happen if you spend days/weeks baked out of your head. He was likely high as f**k practically the entire time she was away. It's time they talk about his cannabis use. Perception use and (where legal) some recreational use is fine but damaging/destroying two expensive appliances and eating so poorly he nearly gives himself a bowel obstruction and shiting on living room floor would have had me dragging his gassy a*s to a doctor. Unless the weed if for legitimate medical use, and he uses it as such, I think he needs to stop smoking weed. He legitimately can't control himself or be left unattended (like a child).
I've never broken anything or shat myself due to weed!
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who finds it *really* concerning that he simply can not take care of himself?? At this point I'm really sorry for the wife.
He could be an engineer. They're amazingly competent at their jobs but every day things just baffle them sometimes.
Load More Replies...Turns out one woman actually DID choose bear, and I'm grateful because I've not read anything so funny since the Amazon reviews for sugar free haribo gummies.
*frantically searches amazon for sugar-free haribo gummies*
Load More Replies...My poll choice, “Build him a doghouse in the back yard and not let him into the house proper until he’s grown,” isn’t available. Oh, how I wish this woman would make (at least!) one post a week because I wanna read (and laugh at!) ‘em all. The one good thing he did was to marry a lady with a sense of humor who can write. 👍🏻
I chose 'have a good laugh' because it was the closest to 'Laugh my @$$ off at him until I'm in danger of asphyxiating'.
Load More Replies...I am ROFLing so hard right now. I just recovered from food poisoning myself. I hope my back door holds up as I laugh uncontrolably.
I thought at the first mention of honeycomb you meant the cereal, not actual honeycombs. But after reading further, I realized my mistake.
Oh that was hysterical! Please let us know when you release your first book! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😂🤣
I just about peed myself laughing. This poor woman, that poor dog, the poor neighbors. Send him to a cooking school or register him as a biological weapon of mass destruction
I have no words! As a guy who LOVES to cook, and I do it quite well (coming from friends and family) I damned near $hit MYSELF laughing over this, sad as it is. Get this boy a few cookbooks and some classes!
Lady are you sure you married a human man and not some raccoons in a trench coat pretending to be a guy?
I would like to point out, for future reference, that one doesn't eat/swallow honeycomb, you chew it like you would gum, then spit it out once it loses its flavor, lol
He was just an awkward nerdy boy from a kinda poor family. Doesn't quite sound as good
I'm not sure I believe this story. It's just too much. Who is this person? Who would be that gross? I am a man in my 40s. I don't have a wife, but I do have kids. I cook most of the meals we eat. I don't break the fridge or stove. My kids are well fed and healthy. I am Brazilian, so I do eat a lot of black beans and rice. But I vary my diet to get a diversity of nutrients into my body, and to not get bored of cooking. I do a honey and sriracha glazed salmon filet that my kids love. I cannot believe a man, even a married man, can survive into his 40s with so few life skills.
I don't care if it's real or not. That was absolutely hilarious!
Load More Replies...im still laughing my behind off lol told my hubby id love to live next door to them, id woulldnt have to pay for cable tv anymore ,, i could just sit in my window and watch them hahahaha
what kind of weed is he smoking that he ate honeycombs and only honeycombs for a few days?? I'm thinking his weed makes him sped. Idk just thoughts. It's funny, bc the level of incompetency and complete inability to function. But in reality, it's just...sad. lol The dude destroyed the kitchen, the towel rack,...and s**t on the floor (and wore adult diapers for his uncontrollable honey comb shits). I'm pretty site that classifies as sped. I mean, the do teach essential life skills to the sped students and I feel like maybe he missed those classes.
I'm crying with laughter & my husband has just come out to check I'm OK!
Even though it's hilarious, that's one of the most dedicated examples of weaponised incompetence I've ever heard. He's just determined to prove she can't leave him to fend for himself. Like breaking a shelf? Yeah I'd do that. And then I'd fix it before it becomes a burden on my partner. Broke stove? Okay. Then I'd do my best to fix it. Tripped breakers? Okay. Then I'd search for the reset. Sounds like the consequences were even more than he expected so he bucked up and took some responsibility, and she also held her ground more than he expected so he fixed his own c**p. I was worried when she kept saying "now I have to..." about broken things.
This has to be THE FUNNIEST story I've EVER heard!!!! LMFAO!!! Lady, you should be a writer because I can actually smell the smells and see both of your faces as this progresses. OH, AND THE DOG??!!! LOL LOL LOL! It HAD TO BE BAD because most dogs try to sniff at you but yours begged to leave with you!!!!! I'll never forget this story! Thank you!
As he lit up a smoke you are really fortunate the house didn’t explode!
Seriously there are "basic competence" classes for cooking and housekeeping offered by your local community college. Forcibly enroll him. Also, he might need to visit a doctor because that honeycomb probably wasn't safe to eat.
My deceased ex was positively deadly with his farts. I woke up one night thinking the house was on fire. 3 story house. Went down to the basement and checked. By the time I got back up to the master bedroom, I realized it was his farting causing the smell. He found that hysterical. RIP, Harold!
l laughed so hard I had tears! I just had to share it with my friend.
My husband of 32 years is the same moron when it comes to cooking he learned from his mother..who is a horrible cook. I spent 3 yrs in Ireland (3 months on 1 month off taking care of my mother) my husband thank God was an over the road truck driver at the time. When I came home I would fill the freezer with meals for him. He us not aloud to cook EVER
I haven't read something this funny in a long time. Thanks, OP! You made MY day!
From snorting with suppressed giggles to outright laughing very loudly by the time we got to the part where he fell asleep on the toilet legs went numb and he fell ripping the towel rack off the wall and laughing some more .. what a wonderful memorable day and a half(?) and more, for that very patient wife. Keep him, he sounds like a good bloke all the same. Leave him with some frozen meals... on second thoughts don't he might microwave them to exploding point I vote for a daily delivery of one meal per day. and lots of frozen sliced bread he can defrost in the toaster and spread what he wants, from honey, cheese slices, peanut butter, ham, pickles tinned fish (ew) mayo a plethora of tasty nutritious toppings, yes, even good old Aussie VEGEMITE .. that will work..and I still laugh although it is midnight and all is was very still. was I heard? I hope so, laughter can be contagious.
Its the weed and upbringing. Bad match. Needs to be careful with the happy
I have wet spots on my shirt from wiping my eyes because I was in TEARS laughing so hard.
That's the best laugh I've had in ages! I'm saving this to show my grandson on Friday
So, he broke the stove, the fridge, and the towel rack. HOW did he not also break the toilet?
The last time I had really horrid gas, I did the only thing any honorable man could do. I Dutch Oven'd my wife. Let one rip, then pulled the covers over her head and held them there while she started thrashing about and yelling open threats.
One of the comments said he's like a tropy husband - welp, I feel like I married a tropy husband, after reading this post. Op had a knack for writing about their adventure/misadventure, that's for sure. I was in stitches🤣😂🤣😂
Made me laugh but I have to say that we taught our kids to use the oven by 12 y.o.; they started cooking at 10. We had them cooking a meal once a week until they left the house. With my last pregnancy, I had to stay in bed for several days and husband cooked all the meals, simple but still nutritious (he was already in charge of the lunches).
This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Jesus, I laughed so hard I cried. Hysterical!
If he had half a brain cell he would have replaced the fridge shelf immediately. I can't even imagine how much it was for a Samsung. I have a Whirlpool and I had to replace 2 of the door bins last year. The cheapest price I was able to find online was 20 bucks each, which we thought was insane but I had to have them.
What do i think? I think this is fake and a load of balls! Very funny, but not true!
Well, we can’t know that - that’s part of the whole Bored Panda thing. Of the entire internet thing, really. The point of these are rarely to figure out wether or not they’re real.
Load More Replies...I laughed my a** off the more I read. Anybody else? I kept imagining the smells + noise. :)
I'm recovering from pneumonia, and I nearly died laughing!
Load More Replies...Man trusted a fart and sh*t all over the carpet. I'm just trying to picture this, was he standing? naked? was he squatting? again, naked, over the living room carpet? Like I had some stomach troubles recently myself and, you know, it happens, but nothing ended up all over the living room carpet??
Messy honeycomb poops while wearing loose shorts? And who eats the wax anyway?? I was entertained by this but also semi-horrified.
Load More Replies...As humorous as this is written, there’s a fundamental f*****g problem with a grown-a*s man who can’t cook, can’t use a stove, can’t evaluate the structural integrity of a refrigerator shelf & can’t eat basic or semi-nutritious food for a few weeks. This level of incompetence is beyond unattractive & offputting. It’s gross & ugly. I wonder what outstanding qualities he has that negates his inability to feed himself anything other that disgusting foodstuff.
I suspect the husband was higher than a kite for the whole time. When you are completely intoxicated on something you often make dumb choices. He was probably still high the morning after OP got home. At least the OP is making him clean up after some of his choices.
Load More Replies...People writing ""IT'S WEAPONIZED INCOMPETENCE" are, once again, throwing out terms that they don't understand, because it's the Evil De Jour of the Bad Spouse. Weaponized incompetence is when somebody doesn't want to do something, so they pretend to be unable to do it. This man WANTED to be home alone, taking care of himself. He wasn't trying to prove that she should have stayed home or that he should have gone with her. He does, however, sound like he was high and whatever he did seemed like a good idea "at the time". If he wasn't high he probably would have simply eaten barbeque every day or ordered different foods. Trying to cook 15 lb of lentils, eating 7 honeycombs, etc, all sound like the actions of somebody who is pretty high. No Weaponized Incompetence here at all, just moderate Incompetence magnified x100 by weed.
Yep, everything you said. Should Beavis & Butthead ever decide to become a trio, OP's hubby is a prime candidate to join them, lol!
Load More Replies...The thing about trusting a fart had me laughing hysterically. My dad has a creed his Pops taught him: Never waste an erection and never trust a fart. He's just come back from a vacation with his male friend and went on and on about how his friend believed the same thing. And it really has me wondering what happened on the trip and if there's something my mum ought to know.
This is the kind if s**t that happen if you spend days/weeks baked out of your head. He was likely high as f**k practically the entire time she was away. It's time they talk about his cannabis use. Perception use and (where legal) some recreational use is fine but damaging/destroying two expensive appliances and eating so poorly he nearly gives himself a bowel obstruction and shiting on living room floor would have had me dragging his gassy a*s to a doctor. Unless the weed if for legitimate medical use, and he uses it as such, I think he needs to stop smoking weed. He legitimately can't control himself or be left unattended (like a child).
I've never broken anything or shat myself due to weed!
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who finds it *really* concerning that he simply can not take care of himself?? At this point I'm really sorry for the wife.
He could be an engineer. They're amazingly competent at their jobs but every day things just baffle them sometimes.
Load More Replies...Turns out one woman actually DID choose bear, and I'm grateful because I've not read anything so funny since the Amazon reviews for sugar free haribo gummies.
*frantically searches amazon for sugar-free haribo gummies*
Load More Replies...My poll choice, “Build him a doghouse in the back yard and not let him into the house proper until he’s grown,” isn’t available. Oh, how I wish this woman would make (at least!) one post a week because I wanna read (and laugh at!) ‘em all. The one good thing he did was to marry a lady with a sense of humor who can write. 👍🏻
I chose 'have a good laugh' because it was the closest to 'Laugh my @$$ off at him until I'm in danger of asphyxiating'.
Load More Replies...I am ROFLing so hard right now. I just recovered from food poisoning myself. I hope my back door holds up as I laugh uncontrolably.
I thought at the first mention of honeycomb you meant the cereal, not actual honeycombs. But after reading further, I realized my mistake.
Oh that was hysterical! Please let us know when you release your first book! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😂🤣
I just about peed myself laughing. This poor woman, that poor dog, the poor neighbors. Send him to a cooking school or register him as a biological weapon of mass destruction
I have no words! As a guy who LOVES to cook, and I do it quite well (coming from friends and family) I damned near $hit MYSELF laughing over this, sad as it is. Get this boy a few cookbooks and some classes!
Lady are you sure you married a human man and not some raccoons in a trench coat pretending to be a guy?
I would like to point out, for future reference, that one doesn't eat/swallow honeycomb, you chew it like you would gum, then spit it out once it loses its flavor, lol
He was just an awkward nerdy boy from a kinda poor family. Doesn't quite sound as good
I'm not sure I believe this story. It's just too much. Who is this person? Who would be that gross? I am a man in my 40s. I don't have a wife, but I do have kids. I cook most of the meals we eat. I don't break the fridge or stove. My kids are well fed and healthy. I am Brazilian, so I do eat a lot of black beans and rice. But I vary my diet to get a diversity of nutrients into my body, and to not get bored of cooking. I do a honey and sriracha glazed salmon filet that my kids love. I cannot believe a man, even a married man, can survive into his 40s with so few life skills.
I don't care if it's real or not. That was absolutely hilarious!
Load More Replies...im still laughing my behind off lol told my hubby id love to live next door to them, id woulldnt have to pay for cable tv anymore ,, i could just sit in my window and watch them hahahaha
what kind of weed is he smoking that he ate honeycombs and only honeycombs for a few days?? I'm thinking his weed makes him sped. Idk just thoughts. It's funny, bc the level of incompetency and complete inability to function. But in reality, it's just...sad. lol The dude destroyed the kitchen, the towel rack,...and s**t on the floor (and wore adult diapers for his uncontrollable honey comb shits). I'm pretty site that classifies as sped. I mean, the do teach essential life skills to the sped students and I feel like maybe he missed those classes.
I'm crying with laughter & my husband has just come out to check I'm OK!
Even though it's hilarious, that's one of the most dedicated examples of weaponised incompetence I've ever heard. He's just determined to prove she can't leave him to fend for himself. Like breaking a shelf? Yeah I'd do that. And then I'd fix it before it becomes a burden on my partner. Broke stove? Okay. Then I'd do my best to fix it. Tripped breakers? Okay. Then I'd search for the reset. Sounds like the consequences were even more than he expected so he bucked up and took some responsibility, and she also held her ground more than he expected so he fixed his own c**p. I was worried when she kept saying "now I have to..." about broken things.
This has to be THE FUNNIEST story I've EVER heard!!!! LMFAO!!! Lady, you should be a writer because I can actually smell the smells and see both of your faces as this progresses. OH, AND THE DOG??!!! LOL LOL LOL! It HAD TO BE BAD because most dogs try to sniff at you but yours begged to leave with you!!!!! I'll never forget this story! Thank you!
As he lit up a smoke you are really fortunate the house didn’t explode!
Seriously there are "basic competence" classes for cooking and housekeeping offered by your local community college. Forcibly enroll him. Also, he might need to visit a doctor because that honeycomb probably wasn't safe to eat.
My deceased ex was positively deadly with his farts. I woke up one night thinking the house was on fire. 3 story house. Went down to the basement and checked. By the time I got back up to the master bedroom, I realized it was his farting causing the smell. He found that hysterical. RIP, Harold!
l laughed so hard I had tears! I just had to share it with my friend.
My husband of 32 years is the same moron when it comes to cooking he learned from his mother..who is a horrible cook. I spent 3 yrs in Ireland (3 months on 1 month off taking care of my mother) my husband thank God was an over the road truck driver at the time. When I came home I would fill the freezer with meals for him. He us not aloud to cook EVER
I haven't read something this funny in a long time. Thanks, OP! You made MY day!
From snorting with suppressed giggles to outright laughing very loudly by the time we got to the part where he fell asleep on the toilet legs went numb and he fell ripping the towel rack off the wall and laughing some more .. what a wonderful memorable day and a half(?) and more, for that very patient wife. Keep him, he sounds like a good bloke all the same. Leave him with some frozen meals... on second thoughts don't he might microwave them to exploding point I vote for a daily delivery of one meal per day. and lots of frozen sliced bread he can defrost in the toaster and spread what he wants, from honey, cheese slices, peanut butter, ham, pickles tinned fish (ew) mayo a plethora of tasty nutritious toppings, yes, even good old Aussie VEGEMITE .. that will work..and I still laugh although it is midnight and all is was very still. was I heard? I hope so, laughter can be contagious.
Its the weed and upbringing. Bad match. Needs to be careful with the happy
I have wet spots on my shirt from wiping my eyes because I was in TEARS laughing so hard.
That's the best laugh I've had in ages! I'm saving this to show my grandson on Friday
So, he broke the stove, the fridge, and the towel rack. HOW did he not also break the toilet?
The last time I had really horrid gas, I did the only thing any honorable man could do. I Dutch Oven'd my wife. Let one rip, then pulled the covers over her head and held them there while she started thrashing about and yelling open threats.
One of the comments said he's like a tropy husband - welp, I feel like I married a tropy husband, after reading this post. Op had a knack for writing about their adventure/misadventure, that's for sure. I was in stitches🤣😂🤣😂
Made me laugh but I have to say that we taught our kids to use the oven by 12 y.o.; they started cooking at 10. We had them cooking a meal once a week until they left the house. With my last pregnancy, I had to stay in bed for several days and husband cooked all the meals, simple but still nutritious (he was already in charge of the lunches).
This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Jesus, I laughed so hard I cried. Hysterical!
If he had half a brain cell he would have replaced the fridge shelf immediately. I can't even imagine how much it was for a Samsung. I have a Whirlpool and I had to replace 2 of the door bins last year. The cheapest price I was able to find online was 20 bucks each, which we thought was insane but I had to have them.
What do i think? I think this is fake and a load of balls! Very funny, but not true!
Well, we can’t know that - that’s part of the whole Bored Panda thing. Of the entire internet thing, really. The point of these are rarely to figure out wether or not they’re real.
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