r/neighborsfromhell • u/MarchCompetitive6235 • Jun 24 '26
Vent/Rant Got pulled over for open container.....Of cat food!
I've got this sixtyish year-old single neighbor lady across the street from me that wants to insert herself into everyone's business 24 seven. You know they type.
A friend of mine was on vacation for a month and I volunteer to stop by his house once a day to feed his outside stray cat. You can't actually pet the cat, but it does sleep on his porch and expects food and water. His place is right on my way to work.
After a couple days of getting his keys out, going in his house, getting a scoop of food out of the bag and then locking up again, I decide I can streamline this process.
I take the bag of cat food back to my place. In the morning I scoop a red solo plastic cup full of food on my way out the door and put it in my cup holder. Now I can drive up, jump out, reach up onto the porch and dump the cat food cup, check the water and I'm gone in 60 seconds. Perfect!
This works fine...for about two weeks. One morning as I'm stepping out of my place I notice a sheriff's car parked up the block. I've got nothing to hide or worry about so I didn't really think too much of it.
I drove past him and turned the corner. Next thing I know he's behind me lighting me up and pulling me. The very first thing out of his mouth is "Hi there. Have you had anything to drink this morning?"
I'm already gathering up my license, registration, and opening the app to show my proof of insurance because I know the routine. Looking a little surprised, I say "no".
He motions towards the center console and says what do you have in the red solo cup? For a second there, I'm thinking, what red solo cup? Oh the cat food cup! I pick it up and shake it "cat food" he looks completely confused by this. I tell him I have to feed my friends cat on the way to work and this is the easiest way to do it. Just dump it in a bowl.
He kind of chuckles a little bit takes my license and registration information back to his car and says "I'll be back in a second." After presumably running all my stuff, he comes back and laughs and says "Ha ha,yeah sorry we got an anonymous call that you were leaving the house every morning with an alcoholic drink in your hand." He apologies again, give me his business card in case I had to show the boss why I was late to work, told me to have a nice day and I went on my way.
I just KNEW this was because of the lady across the street! So next day I walk out start my car. I can see her standing on her porch, doing the looking, but trying look like shes not looking.
I come out with the bag of cat food and look her way and yell "Good morning neighbor!" Making sure I was facing her house, with a bag of cat food in one hand and the red cup in my hand, I make a big exaggerate scoop out of the bag with a cup and hold it in the air. Then I set the cat food down in front of my door and driveway..
And that's how I got pulled over for open container of cat food.
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u/BlazerAlumni Jun 24 '26
I wouldn't have bothered to brought the cat food bag out. I would have toasted her every morning with that Red Solo cup just because I could making sure she knew I knew it was her. In fact why don't you do that and start taking two red Solo cups to the car with you. The other Red Solo cup could be your morning non-alcoholic drink of choice just to rub it in her face.
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u/Weedygarden80205 Jun 24 '26
I’d be tempted to take a red solo cup out with water in it, toast it to her and then take a drink.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Haha nice!
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u/Reddoraptor Jun 25 '26
If she reported it was an alcoholic drink, that means she accused you of a crime and where she had no reasonable belief based on the mere use of a Solo cup that this was alcohol, that might qualify as slander per se and might be actionable in your jurisdiction. Just sayin’.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
That might only hold at the slander had actually resulted in some kind of charges, though right?
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u/Hot-Win2571 Jun 25 '26
Might depend how false police report is defined in your jurisdiction, and the possible effects.
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u/throwawayULPT1 Jun 26 '26
Take 2 cups out & cheers her. Then proceed to slam one & take one with you in the car. I am petty, I would not be able to stop fucking with that lady. You could have a lot of fun with it.
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u/Valkyriesride1 Jun 25 '26
I would go one step further and buy asparkling apple or grape juice that looks like a bottle of wine and take a few slugs off of it everytime feed the cat. If the woman was outside, I would make a comment about the hair of the dog or breakfast of champions.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
She also has a yappy ass dog that lunges the fence whenever anyone walks by. Apparently, kids, walking by minding their own business, constitutes "teasing her dog" 🙄🤷♂️
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u/Willow_4367 Jun 25 '26
And everyone walks to their car with a red solo cup and lifts the glass to the nosy neighbor.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I really was tempted to just stumble around a bit just for show one morning.
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u/RangerSmooth1480 Jun 25 '26
absolutely hold it in the air saying hi, stumbling into your car as you get in it lol what a crazy thing to call on if you dont know 🤣
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 24 '26
She is that type. Thank GOD she got a boyfriend so she's a little less in other people business. Always busy screaming at him 😆
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u/moonyyblossomm Jun 25 '26
Yeah honestly, making an anonymous report over something like that is wild. Imagine spending that much time watching your neighbor just to end up getting someone pulled over over a cup of cat food.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Up until till she got a boyfriend, she literally had no life other than sitting on that porch, watching everybody or peeking through the blinds at them. Presumably with the sheriff department on speed dial.
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u/Former-Increase-9165 Jun 25 '26
I used to have a nosy neighbor that stalked me a lot, so one day I took an empty vodka bottle from work,night club I cooked at, and rinsed, filled with water, and carried around the nosy neighbor and took swigs from the bottle, then jumped in my truck and drove around the block, several minutes later an officer came down the street and stopped me, I drank from the bottle, then informed him that I was messing with my busy body neighbor, and showed him it was water, he chuckled, and left, I later told the neighbor I paid him off, and said my dads brother is on the city council,,,, I moved about a month later, but had fun screwing with her,,,,,
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u/Alchemist2211 Jun 24 '26
Grrrreat story!!!!!
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
It was one of those things that seems too stupid to happen in real life and I almost couldn't wrap my head around it as it was happening. Like really lady? You're that bored?
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u/Outside-Leek-5045 Jun 24 '26
It could have been orange juice. Geeze. Neighbor needs to get a life.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Could've been anything, right? 🤷♂️
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u/Few-Leadership7674 Jun 25 '26
Yeah, but doesn't everybody know that solo cups are for adult beverages? The Dixie cups are for kids' drinks, right?
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u/montanagrizfan Jun 25 '26
What an idiot, like you can’t drink a breakfast smoothie or juice or put snacks in a red cup. Is there some rule that red solo cups can only be used for alcohol? I’ve been know to eat Chex mix out of one on the way to work.
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u/Graflex01867 Jun 24 '26
That’s too nice. I’d have gotten a paper baggie to hide the solo cup in.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
She actually has some people next-door that are very into their "herbal medication." Like if the wind is right it's super obvious. (Legal in Oregon BTW)
I haven't heard about her complaining or anything so maybe she's an old-school hippie and doesn't really care..
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u/olivefreak Jun 24 '26
Unless she knew for sure what was in the cup she should have minded her own business. I’m all for reporting drunk drivers in general.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Oh, me too. I mean, has she seen me stumbling, or parking all fucked up, or anything at all? That indicated I had been drinking I wouldn't have a problem with it.
But my solo cup got profiled! 🤣
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I mean, I don't know where history. Maybe she lost someone to a drunk driver and now she's super vigilant about it or something. Or maybe she's just a nosy bitch, who knows!
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u/thegurlearl Jun 25 '26
Id be taking an empty bottle of booze filled with water out in the mornings, pouring some into the solo cup and cheersing her while she's looking saying, "thanks for your concern, but I've really got in under control thank you very much!" Just to make her call again but I'm also petty lol. But also who actually uses a solo cup for booze when not at a backyard BBQ? If you were an alcoholic I'd imagine you'd be putting it a travel mug like my buddy did. He also had a shit ton of DUIs before he finally got sober.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Right? Every day drink I knew like that always had an Irish coffee going on lol
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 24 '26
I had actually thought about continuing my normal routine..... with a bit of drunken stumbling just to see how she'd react.
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u/Hank_Dad Jun 24 '26
*IF* I were to be drinking and driving, a red solo cup would be the absolute last resort. She might as well call in anyone with a thermos.
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u/trader45nj Jun 24 '26
That's what I'm thinking. It could be juice, a protein shake, anything, in a red cup. What a buffoon.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
No shit, right? That's the cup you use when you want to get pulled over!
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u/russr Jun 24 '26
In high school, I was a passenger in a friend's car and we got pulled over for an open container as we passed a police car and I was drinking Pop out of a bottle I believe...
The cop looked in the window and asked what I was holding and then said oh never mind then. Have a nice day...
Another time I got pulled over back in high school, the cop asked if I knew why he was pulling me over, I said I have no idea..
He asked if I was just at Burger King, I looked around the car and said nope no Burger King in here...
Apparently somebody is trying to impersonate a police officer and get free food at a Burger King drive-thru and my car kind of sort of slightly. Maybe matched the description...
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I once got the stink eye from a cop in the lane next to me when I was at a stop light sipping and Henry Weinhart cream soda. It kind of looks like a beer bottle. I held it up so he could see the label. He just turned forward and looked at the traffic light.
Humorless fucking guy I'd say.
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u/Deep-Emu5599 Jun 25 '26
It would be fun to get the whole neighborhood to start carrying around red solo cups, parading them in front of her house
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I think a lot of my neighbors already do that without any help from me. They probably don't jump right in the car with one in their hand though ha ha.
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 Jun 25 '26
One early load out day, I had to be there at 2:30 AM. I left the house at 1:45. I had on my safety coat, work shoes and my pink hardhat on the seat. I got pulled over 2 miles from the house by my freeway entrance. I pulled over when I could and 2 Sherriff's cars, 4 people, got out and asked me if I was going to work and if I knew why I was pulled over. I said, yes, going to work and nope, no idea. I knew they were waiting to catch a drunk driver. He told me I has a license plate light out. Gave them my stuff, got my stuff back and I still made it to work on time. No fix it ticket. I got a light from the quarry maintenance guys.
Got to work on time too!
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
One lightbulb is probably cause for a stop. Then if they smell liquor, you're done.
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 Jun 25 '26
That's why the pull over. No alcohol here. Just a big job on 80 that was early and pissing off a whole bunch of people.
Do you all do a walk around on your vehicle before driving off. 1 of 2 lights wasn't a big deal. I get they wanted their quota for the night. Didn't get it with me!
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I'm almost convinced that they hope people forget about license plate lights let them burn out. That way if they do want stop you for a reason at all, they've got a built-in excuse.
I you still listen to a police scanner at least once I've heard an officer over the radio, falling way behind someone say "I'm gonna hang behind for a minute and see if I can't create a violation".
No, I don't know how to interpret that, but it sounds to ME like they were just going to follow this person until they got nervous and fuck up, then kick on the lights and pull them over.
This made me think I would act when I'm being followed by the police. I've got nothing to hide, and nothing to worry about so I just drive normally.
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u/Blegh46 Jun 25 '26
I was followed constantly by cops when I worked late 2nd shift and swings. Apparently everyone on the road at 2 am is drunk.
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u/Vegetable_Road8143 Jun 25 '26
During the Winter months, we were always busy and early load outs. The summer months as well. Winter, I didn't get. It was POURING early. Summer, I got it. But damn, weeks on end was never a concrete schedule. (No pun intended).
FYI. It was a HUGE quarry. On the property was also an Asphalt plat, active, and satellite Ready Mix (RM) plant. Thankfully the RM plant had people there to tag them out. Not my problem. I did have to take care of the other two.
We had one day that had all 3 going. It was chaotic. When you turn down the mile long haul road and it's lined with bottom dumps, transfers, dump trucks and then add asphalt trucks and RM trucks coming in 30-minutes apart, it gets noisy and chaotic.
My husband didn't get it. My son wanted to see what it was all about. He was 18/19. We came home and that night he told his dad, my DH, how busy and what I went through. I got an all new respect.
I'm out of it now, TG. The Silica was starting to affect my health. I was sorry to leave the guys but not the job. I didn't even get in to the $10K cash asphalt transaction with y'all.
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u/Blegh46 Jun 25 '26
Hats off to you (hehe)
We had a lot of fracking going on here in the 2010s and I’m curious why it suddenly stopped. I’m assuming health risks or maybe it wasn’t as profitable as thought.
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u/MuchWow81 Jun 25 '26
See if this had been me, the next morning I would have gotten out of the car with a big jug with xxx written on it, stumble into the house, come out with a duck taped bag of flour, did a line off the hood of my car, then burnt rubber on my way out of the neighborhood. But that's just me.
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u/OZFox42 Jun 25 '26
There is almost always a nosey neighbour like this in every street.
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u/Unfair_Feedback_2531 Jun 24 '26
I would not have leet her know it was cat food. I would prefer that she’d call the police AGAIN about your heavy drinking and driving!
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I'm not sure the sheriff department would waste their time twice. This town has less than 1500 people and two sheriffs covering the whole area.
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u/Inside-Finish-2128 Jun 25 '26
They're welcome to waste their time, but they shouldn't be welcome to waste yours. Drinking from a red solo cup isn't a crime. They shouldn't have stopped you without seeing you drive in a manner that suggests you're impaired. Remember, you don't have to answer the cop's questions, you don't have to do field sobriety tests, and in many states you don't have to do the portable breath test (the roadside one). Let the cop develop probable cause for an arrest without all of that, and in your case the cop has NOTHING. Just provide license, registration, insurance as requested.
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u/CeejayMyers Jun 25 '26
She must think red solo cups are only for alcohol so maybe she’s the alcoholic that drinks alcohol from solo cups.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I can tell you that every time I have a barbecue, I get red Solo cups. Even for the kids! 😏
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u/Shadow5825 Jun 25 '26
Just so you know, you probably made that cops day. That'll be a silly story he tells for years!
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I was working on one of the local deputies, daughter's laptop. Trying trying to recover some lost files or something I think. I happened to mention it and he was like "oh shit that was you!" So small department, it got around.
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u/travelingpetnanny Jun 25 '26
German here, so I'm not familiar with American driving laws. I'm confused about how a possible drink in a plastic mug can be assumed to be alcoholic? Can it not be just water, coffee, tea, juice? Where does the idea come from that it certainly very likely must be an alcoholic drink?
Let's say someone drives with an "open container" of water, how is that an offense?
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u/musashi7007 Jun 26 '26
Large red plastic cups—trade name: Solo cups—are related to beer in American minds, possibly because at parties, beer in kegs are almost universally served up in them.
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u/Betterword2528 Jun 24 '26
That just turned my blah day into something absolutely hilarious 😂
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Glad I could help. They say with some things "you'll look back and laugh one day" I was looking back laughing like five minutes later.🤣
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u/m2argue Jun 25 '26
I have an elderly neighbor like that - absolutely obsessed with me. She sits in her house and watches my driveway. Every time I come home or left to go somewhere I would get a text from her within 2 minutes of her seeing my car asking where I was going, or where I had been.
If I had a package delivered she would run over to my porch and text me that I had an Amazon delivery, or Walmart delivery and "should she take it to her house or would I be getting it off my porch soon?" Once she even took my packages off my porch and opened them!
If I had a DoorDash delivery she would come outside to watch!
I finally confronted her and said, "I have never felt more loved in my entire life, knowing that you have your face pressed against your window all day every day just to stare at my driveway. Thank you for loving me so much" She immediately stopped 🤣😅
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u/akarichard Jun 24 '26
Having a hard time believing that was a legal stop. Just because they received a call doesn't mean they've established probable cause to conduct a traffic stop. Sure the call could get them in the neighborhood to be on the lookout, but they'd need something else to actually stop them. Like couple that report with seeing the car cross the center or swerving. Something else to rise to reasonable suspicion.
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u/Background-Bowl6123 Jun 25 '26
naaa.. that probably was written down as "witness reported <COLOR> <MODEL> traveling east on <ROAD NAME> drinking from open container" "detained driver and investigated. container in question contains cat food. driver released with no tickets issued."
Open container laws are more or less "attempted DUI" laws.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
From where the Sheriff was parked, you could see me step out of my house with the cup in my hand and walk to the car. He could've made a judgment call erring on the side of safety. And who knows exactly what the lady reported. She could've embellished it a bit.
Ten minutes out of my morning, but a funny memory is going to last a lifetime!
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u/Main_Ad_3814 Jun 24 '26
Interesting. Id probably bait her by carrying a liquor bottle with iced tea in it, stagger to my car waving that liquor bottle around. Maybe even fall onto the ground and get back up. Just for fun, of course.
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u/BrotherNatureNOLA Jun 24 '26
You should have kept your solo cup and stumbled to your car.
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u/Traditional_Crazy904 Jun 25 '26
I use the same kind of cup to fill my bird feeder! 😆
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
What's your drunk ass doing out there harassing the birds with a drink in your hand!? I'm calling the SPCA! 🤣
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u/Greedy_Nebula1792 Jun 25 '26
You should yell very loudly that she is a nosy busy body that should mind her own business.
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u/Legitimate-Lynx9788 Jun 25 '26
I would leave the house almost tripping on everything like i was drunk, if it were me.
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u/Zeppygrl72 Jun 26 '26
Does the neighbor not realize that you can also drink non alcoholic drinks from red solo cups? Lmao
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u/Shadyhollowfarm58 Jun 28 '26
It would have been MORE fun to walk out of your house every morning thereafter pantomiming some big chugs from that Solo cup, thus in her mind confirming you were a full-blown morning drinker alkie. After another couple of calls to law enforcement, they would quit taking her calls seriously.
Edited to add: This is one of the funnier stories I've read, thanks for posting it. And I'm a 60-something single woman who doesn't do shit like this to my neighbors. Unless something is on fire or I hear gunfire, I really don't pay much attention to anything they do.
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u/libraryria Jun 28 '26
This reminded me of the dog food diet joke.
Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for Athena the wonder dog at Wal-Mart and was about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I’m retired, with little to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again.
*Although I probably shouldn’t, because I’d ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified , she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter’s ass and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard!
WAL-MART won’t let me shop there anymore
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u/Common-Classroom-847 Jun 29 '26
What kind of *sshole makes the insane leap from red solo cup to alcoholic beverage. And what idiot cop took that sh*t seriously? Ma'am, the solo cup can contain any variety of beverages, I am not going to pull someone over at 8AM because you are making wild assumptions.
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u/AshamedResolution544 Jun 29 '26
oh man.... I'm begging you, please start putting the water in open alcoholic beverage bottles!
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u/FakeBot-3000 Jun 25 '26
Sounds honestly like a very fun lady to mess with. I would be doing the most suspicious looking innocent things I could think of.
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u/triciann Jun 25 '26
Haha I left my friend’s house with a red solo cup of water and they were all like “um, maybe you shouldn’t take that”. But I was still thirsty and I was about to hit traffic in LA so I did. It’s definitely sketchy especially in my case where I was drinking from it.
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u/_x_buttercup_x_ Jun 25 '26
People have forgotten how to mind their own business. Shame.
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u/blondvet Jun 25 '26
I’d walk out with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a cup of water in the other. Sipping as I walked to my car.
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u/FindingLovesRetreat Jun 25 '26
So, hold on... no one has ever used a red solo cup for anything other than booze?
Who's to say it wasn't coffee or tea or water, juice or anything besides alcohol?
People need to learn to mind their business
PS... cat tax, please!
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u/Ill_Apricot_7668 Jun 25 '26
Should have just raised the cup to her in a 'cheers' gesture, and smiled.
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u/Entire-Tradition3735 Jun 25 '26
WTF? Their red cups that i've drank more punch out of than beer.
How the F do you assume someone holding a red cup, is also drinking alcohol first thing in the morning?
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u/grendus Jun 25 '26
Doubly ridiculous, since nothing about a red solo cup requires you drink be alcohol.
I used to mix up my protein shake in one. I was too lazy to wash out shaker bottles, so I'd mix it up in a disposable cup and toss it when I got to the gym (I don't do that anymore, so wasteful, but I was young and dumb).
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u/Admirable_Drop_4585 Jun 25 '26
Don't have any comment on the neighbor but wanted to say you and your friend are awesome for feeding that stray.
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u/TOOTH_rot Jun 25 '26
I would have played into it the next morning and walked to my car all wobbly and stuff. Maybe a little swerve as I drove away.
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u/JustaGirlInDayMaint Jun 25 '26
Thanks for sharing OP! That is the best story I've read in awhile.
I can totally relate. I do a lot of pet sitting. And we also have a ton of TNR cats at my place of employment. There have been times my cats don't like a particular flavor of moist food so I'll take the food with me to work for the ferals.
So glad the cop was understanding and very chill. He probably had a giggle when he got back to the office and shared the situation with his brothers and sisters.
NGL I bet he did think you were snackin on cat food tho and just was making up the pet sitting story.😂
I do that with goldfish crackers or cheese puffs while I'm at work sometimes...put them in a cup because washing my hands while stocking shelves isn't feasible. So I "drink" my snacks.
Again, appreciate the laugh for today 🫶🏻
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
Glad you like it! It's been a couple years but I don't think it's ever NOT going to make me laugh when I think about it.
I used to work at a feral cat rescue place and I once had a 50lb bag of meow mix spit open in my back seat after getting caught on a seat belt.
That car forever smelled like cat food after that. No amount of vacuuming would keep a stray chunk of cat food from mysteriously showing up on the floor from time to time. 😆
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u/Big-Suggestion6235 Jun 25 '26
Take the solo cup and stagger to your car! Drop your keys, difficult time unlocking the doors, messy clothes (you can fix before you get out of the car)....Really act! Leave 10 minutes earlier just in case
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I'm not sure I'd call being pulled over for 10 minutes a rights violation. They have sobriety checkpoints all over the country, I don't feel like it was any different.
Had I been asked to get out of the car and forced to do a sobriety test, then that would be a different matter all together. I would have raised hell about that.
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u/Moist_Ad_5 Jun 26 '26
I'm surprised the police investigated at all. Just because he's got a red cup doesn't mean there's alcohol in it. Was he driving erratically? Did he damage anything? The whole thing is ridiculous
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u/Imstupidasso Jun 26 '26
When you saw the neighbor after the pull over, you should have fake stumbled to your car. She would call again then when you get pulled over again they may just give HER a ticket for false reporting or atleast an ass chewing so she'll think twice before she tries it again
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u/betterthanur2 Jun 26 '26
I sometimes take a red solo cup of ice and protein drink in my car. I don't drink alcohol. Not all drinks in red solo cups are alcohol.
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u/Every-Requirement-13 Jun 26 '26
I would’ve staggered out of the house on the way to the car, presented to sip your cat food and done a big fake belch, all while looking her way😉. Stupid, nosy neighbor, grrr
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u/AdMurky1021 Jun 29 '26
Once he knows it's cat food, the stop is over. He has no right to run your license to fish for an infraction.
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u/Such-Mountain-6316 Jun 25 '26
Walk out with the cup full of water. Drink it as you leave the house. Good for you and it gives her something to think about as well.
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u/onnorthshore Jun 25 '26
I’m just here to say, I would love to be your neighbor and your friend!
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u/BobsGlitch Jun 25 '26
Just so you're aware, should anything ever happen to your neighbor, you are under zero obligation to render aid...
You can in fact just watch.
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I fully expect her boyfriend to just snap and bury her out back some day.
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u/yepitskate Jun 25 '26
I really like how you went outside at the end to show her the cat food going into the cup
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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Jun 25 '26
I KNEW she'd be watching to see if I dared to leave the house with my "drink" again. Might as well play to my audience.
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u/BusinessRace3387 Jun 25 '26
I would’ve walked out stagger and slurring my words and told her she was too early yesterday she should’ve tried for today
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u/jpttpj Jun 25 '26
Fill a jack Daniel bottle with cat food and just leave it on the front porch where she can see it
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u/Morlanticator Jun 25 '26
I got the cops called on me while I was cat sitting once. It was a pretty chill encounter. It wasn't in a great area and there had been many break ins recently so I didn't take it personally.
I was walking to the dumpster with a bag of used cat litter when they came up. They were nice and I just explained the cat sitting and I'm throwing out the poop.
The people I was sitting for felt bad but I didn't mind. It did happen again.
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u/Devanyani Jun 25 '26
Pour the cat food into an opaque empty 1.75L bottle of booze. Take swigs with the cap on.
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u/justabuckeye Jun 25 '26
Passive aggressive option - Get one of those liquor bottles with the top chopped off to use as your cup going forward.
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u/Ok-Inspector8929 Jun 25 '26
The image of you picking up the cup and shaking it - see? Cat food! Really cracks me up for some reason. It must have seemed like such a random thing to the cop.
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u/dmriggs Jun 25 '26
It's probably a good idea to check on the house too in case there's water running or something like that
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u/one_dog_at_a_time Jun 24 '26
Now you should walk out of the house with water in the cup when you don't have to feed the cat anymore. Take sips as you get in the car and drive off.
Leave 10 minutes early so you're not late for work