The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/cinammonCookie on 2025-03-11 17:07:09.

I think I experienced my first glitch in the matrix. It was very mundane and inconsequential, everybody else involved just shrugged it off and moved on but I’m obsessive enough to come post it here to see what people think.

My mom has lots of containers for food, tupperware, etc. For this story we’ll focus on two such containers, lets call it A and B, and their corresponding lids too, lid A and lib B. A and B are the same color, shape and size, they’re a set (and among all the other containers my mom has, these two are the ONLY ones with this size and shape).

So, my wife and I were over at my parents house and it was mealtime. We were setting up everything to eat, and among other stuff we take container A from the fridge and serve food from it onto the plates. By now the kitchen counter has lots of pots, containers, etc. My wife wants to put container A back in the fridge, but can’t find the lid among all the mess. She looks for it for some time and my mom is like “Don’t worry let’s just eat, we can look for it later. Or if you wish. you can take lid B from the cabinet which will also fit and be done with it”. So my wife opens a cabinet where lids are stored and takes lid B and uses it to close container A, and puts it back in the fridge.

We finish eating. We clean up and put away all other pots and stuff. We wash the dishes. Lid A is nowhere to be found. Now everybody is confused. Until my mom looks in the fridge. She finds both containers, A and B, in there, both closed.

This makes no sense! My mom suggested using lid B to close container A because clearly she thought container B was currently stored away, empty, but it turns out it was in the fridge all allong, containing other food (food we didn’t eat that day). This means that it’s impossible that my wife could have found a spare lid in the cabinet. Any explanation we tried to come up was not very convincing, like “well maybe someone, before having a seat at the table, washed lid A and put it away”… in the span of, like 5 minutes it took to set up the table and serve the food, and also not remember doing so (and also, why would someone even do that?)?? I don’t know. It’s fishy. It felt to me as if the original lid A disappeared, and also a new lid, not A or B, appeared from nowhere.