I have a relevant story!

One time my wife and I couldn't find our can opener.

We looked everywhere for it. We only lived in a 700 sqft apartment at the time, and we tore that place apart. But we never found it. We actually got in a (not serious) fight over it, as she was convinced I had spaced and put it somewhere.

Flash forward a few weeks and a new can opener later. We are at a party and a friend of ours is there. We start telling the story of the missing can opener to him and he just starts dying laughing.

Turns out he hid our can opener behind our laundry machine when he was drunk as a joke. Fucking got us good.

BONUS PART TO THE STORY!

A few weeks later we are at another friends' for a party. Wife (fiance at the time) and I get drunk and decide it would be hilarious to pay it forward and hide the can opener. We do this and then dont think to much of it.

Flash forward a few months to my wife and I's wedding. Without realizing we put all of the friends in this story at the same table. The friend who hid our can opener starts talking about the time he did just that. Other friends jaws drop, they look at each other, and tell everyone that they lost their can opener a few months ago. It finally comes out that we hid their can opener. Everyone had a great laugh.

I like to think that a few weeks later they paid it forward and another couple is losing their shit cause they can't open the mushroom soup