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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/MediumSavings4968 on 2024-09-16 20:59:44+00:00.
Cheap beets
Short and fun story. recent story in the last few months. One time thing (so far).
Preface: my father and I share horrible handwriting. I have really curdy cursive. My dads can be worse. And so He’ll write in “print”. So one of the more recent cursive mixed/print written times involving a grocery list where i made a funny. Ok it was a prank
Story
I was at the store with this badly written grocery list. My dad was nice enough to break the list down into sections so I didnt have to run department to department. So when I got to the meat department I saw something written as “Cheap beet”. In actuality my father had odds are written Cheap beef. Translation: “Go check the managers special section for whatever is cheap. I dont care grab it." Still I called to double check.
Me: “Dad, Hey did you write cheap beets or cheap …?”
Dad (sounding half asleep, cutting me off): “huh? What? Listen Im in the middle of working on something. You need to pick up whatever I put on the list.”
Me: “but dad I just need to double ch–”
Dad: “look im busy, just either buy what i have on my list and we’ll sort it out later”
Cue malicious compliance.
Me: ok dad
I hang up and decide to have a bit of fun. First thing I do is I buy a cheaper cut in the manager special section. (cover my butt, so dinner isnt ruined) then when im in the Produce section, I look for beets. Guess what? Organic is on sale.
I call up dad again.
Me: “Dad How many cheap ”
Dad (cuts me off) : “Look either buy 2 or double, or guess ok? Good god!”
Me: “can you at least tell me if you want organic?”
Dad : “yes organically grown or grass fed is fine”
I took everything to the checkout and paid. As I waked in the house to drop off my fathers groceries he starts double checking it.
Dad: “Hey where’s the …
Me (I finally get to cut him off): right here!
I hand dad the bag of cheap beets. Cue Surprised Pikachu face
Me: “You said everything on the list and guess what…. They were cheap!”
Dad looks at his list (sees his mistaken “T” for an “F”) and looks at his bag. Continuing Surprised Pikachu face. We had a good laugh and a few minutes later brought him the real beef. Dad admitted he was actually asleep when i called earlier. So I woke him mid nap half flustered and annoyed.
No fallout except I had to find an inventive way to cook beets but thought the prank be worth it to slug through one beet dish. though now dad checks his list and even walks up to me and says “its cheap beef son.” he still laughs.
(Hope someone laughed from this one.)