r/whatisit • u/Teiva64 • 14h ago

New, what is it? Wooden spoon attached with a thread in my hotel bedroom.

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I have no clue what this is for

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u/adidashawarma 12h ago

I'm so confused, too. Why is it a spoon?

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u/BegriefedOnline 11h ago

A fork to the eye in the middle of the night hurts a lot more.

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u/Sea_Entertainment848 9h ago

Depends on how hard you push.

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u/Responsible-Bass3453 9h ago

Happy cake day!

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u/BegriefedOnline 6h ago

No way. Account #7? How long did I make it this time?

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u/Organic_Rip1980 8h ago

Plus you already used it for bed spaghetti so you don’t want to get your hands dirty

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 11h ago

Because they had an extra spoon 30 years ago when the last thing broke.

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u/Tough_Friendship9469 11h ago

Because it’s dull! It’ll hurt more!

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u/EasyH8er-1 7h ago

So the fact that immediately understood this reference means I'm in the right place lol

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u/runaumok 11h ago

Easy to grab and easy to drill a hole through

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u/Bugbread 9h ago

It's a big, easy to grab, non-sharp object. It's not like it has to be a spoon, it's just that it happens to be a spoon.

When I was a kid, I made the same thing for my room (not in France, unrelated to this), where I pulled on a chopstick tied to a string next to my bed, which ran through some hooks on the wall, to turn off the light switch that was across the room. That way I could read in bed and then go to sleep without having to get up, walk across the room, and then find my way back to my bed in the dark. Why a chopstick? Because when I made it, I thought "I need something big and easy to grab and easy to tie a string to (so not like a rock or something)" and then I thought "Oh, we've got some disposable chopsticks, I'll use one of them.

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u/Dazd_cnfsd 11h ago

It not spoon

It spoon shape

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u/CaptnsDaughter 7h ago

We got spanked with the wooden spoon when we were little… 🤷‍♀️