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My one friend and I have been leaving odd gifts on my friend's car with notes like "I think this fell out of your car" nothing of value. Nothing that can damage the vehicle.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A balloon filled with helium tied to the handle. (How did that "fall out"?)

A gallium coin (if it's cold outside then it'll stay solid and then melt when they put it in their pocket).

An opened (but unused) bandaid. The biggest one you can find. Stick it to the handle so it flaps around and they have to choose between touching the gauze (it's clean, but they don't know that) or the sticky part to pull it off.

A household smoke detector. Use a piece of string to tie it to the handle.

Baby shoes. Again, tie them to the handle.

7 worms in a bag. They're lucky.

Whenever you go into a gas station, buy a random keychain and put that on there. Watch your friend start drowning in keychains.

Christmas lights. Just all of them. All the Christmas lights all over the car. But make sure to thread them through the driver-side handle and include your "I think you dropped this" note.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A gallium coin

This could be quite harmful though. Gallium reacts with metals like aluminum and steel in strange and destructive ways.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's true, but if the car is cheap plastic, then it might be fine.

(For those not familiar with gallium, it's basically mercury but safe; so it's a liquid at room temperature but a solid just below that, depending on where you live, without the risk of Mad Hatter's disease)

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That’s true, but if the car is cheap plastic, then it might be fine.

Until it leaks out of their pocket inside the warm car and drips onto the seat rails, or something similar.

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One serving of peanut butter

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They do make little 1-serving packets of PB, kind of like the ones for BBQ sauce or honey mustard. Sometimes you can find them at hotel continental breakfasts.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago

A dozen wasps.

Level of aliveness is irrelevant.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago

A very tacky car freshener. Some are dirt cheap, the cardboard ones I'm talking about. Pick a design that is silly or ugly for them... Or maybe a fragrance that you know they're not a fan of

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Rubber chicken. Though don't do that to Jair Bolsonaro car, then it would be NSFW object.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

An old shoe. Just one. You can even tie it on by the laces.

"I think you dropped this" and its just a big dollop of Vaseline right on the handle

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Roll up a 'trump 2024' poster. Pikachu keychain. Pom Poms' from the dollar store. Tie a pool noodle to the driver side doors (with a bow knot that can be undone easily). A really long striped stocking, hot pink or some neon color.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This was a delight

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

A toothbrush.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Make a plaster mould of the exact shape of the inside of the handle so it's really annoying to take out

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Underwear, either gender. Though you said no value, so uh, dryer lint? Clothes pins? Dog biscuits? A dog poop bag with pudding in it?

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Snack bar wrappers. Really weird ones that only really little kids love.