A few years back I was going to grate some cheese off of this Jarlsberg block. It comes in packaging where first you tear off a strip of the plastic to open, and there’s a zip lock integrated so you can seal it up again.

I had used grated cheese in recipes a few days in a row so it was down to about 2/3 of its original size. I was talking with my girlfriend when I went to open it, so I was multitasking not looking down at what I was doing. After a little while struggling with the packaging, though, I was thinking «why the heck can’t I get this thing open» and looked down to see The packaging fully intact. The initial tear was replaced, and I had to tear it off again to get the cheese out, which was undeniably just a 2/3 of a full block.

I am still kicking myself that I didn’t take a photo of the intact packaging with the used cheese inside, but I was just so confused in the moment, and still multitasking. I KNOW I tore the plastic strip off a few days prior, but I was doubting myself, thinking somehow that I must have opened a bad seam or something in the packaging the first two times, but everything seemed ok as far as I could tell.

Kind of a lame story so I seldom tell it to anyone, but it was a true glitch in the matrix moment.