# Its taking even longer than we thought.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016 "2020-03-06T15:24:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/1 "2020-03-06T15:24:14Z")
> **[Woman waters plant for two years before realizing it's fake](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/woman-waters-plant-two-years-192942521.html)** > > A 24-year-old California woman’s dreams of being a plant parent shriveled up and died... the day she realized the “perfect” succulent she had been nurturing for two years was actually plastic. Caelie Wilkes shared the revelation in a viral Facebook... read it and weep ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/2 "2020-03-06T16:11:29Z")
Nice ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/3 "2020-03-07T19:55:30Z")
I sympathize with her. When, exactly, did she miss something obvious? My own bitter regret years ago concerned a Jeep Cherokee. Number one, they put hubcaps on it, which I resent because I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wheels being bolted on and no reason to try to hide it. Number two, they decorated the hubcap with molded-on plastic studs and nuts, which obviously defeats the whole (stupid) purpose of the hubcaps in the first place. Last but not least, number three, they actually designed the molded-on plastic nuts to fit the lug wrench – a feat that soars beyond idiotic to insidious. Sure, you may laugh that I know this because I twisted one off the first time I tried changing a wheel. But somebody being fooled by a carefully designed fake something sitting there right where the real something belongs is hardly the core of the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/4 "2020-03-08T10:38:05Z")
One of my friends watered one for 2 months before realising it was plastic. Everyone’s been sending her articles about this… After 2 years, the fact that it’s not grown or changed at all should surely be some kind of a clue, even if you know nothing about plants. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/5 "2020-03-08T10:50:36Z")
Well I have a cactus. I water it monthly. I know it’s not plastic, but I’m not completely sure it’s alive. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/6 "2020-03-08T13:41:47Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > [Woman waters plant for two years before realizing it's fake](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/woman-waters-plant-two-years-192942521.html) > > read it and weep I don’t click on random links. Can you tell me why I should weep? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/7 "2020-03-08T14:49:14Z")
How many people have been pleased with the flowering cactus they bought at the big box store until belatedly realizing the “flower” was a glued-on fake? Or that their “air plant” is actually a green-dyed hunk of dead moss? There are lots of people in such a position. Few go on social media to proclaim it. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/8 "2020-03-08T15:49:06Z")
Not only that, but also there’s an apostrophe in “it’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/9 "2020-03-08T16:47:11Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I don’t click on random links. Can you tell me why I should weep? The person in question watered a plant for a long time before realizing it was plastic. I personally think the part about making us literally sob is a bit farfetched, but ymmv. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-taking-even-longer-than-we-thought/849016/10 "2020-03-08T17:07:18Z")
Then there was the young fellow who was taught to drive on a stick-shift but whose first car was an old Pontiac Tempest with a 4-cylinder engine and a two-speed transaxle, the two speeds being Slow and Slower. Not being trained on push-button automatic transmissions, he punched a button and drove. The L (for Low) button. He drove the 101 freeway between San Francisco and San Jose a few times before a passenger said, “Gee, the engine’s loud. Are you in Drive?” and the fellow replied, “What is _Drive_?” Wait. That was me. Learning is painful. I chanted the mantra: **owa-tagu-siam**. Say that a few times.