The Ol’ Hiding In Plain Sight Trick

Saturday, November 19th, 2005 | Uncategorized

So the other night I bought some Papa John’s pizza. Now my roommate has a nasy habit of blatently stealing half of my Papa John’s pizza when I bring it home, even if he isn’t home he will come home and steal my leftovers of it. It doesn’t matter how much I protest, that is one item he will not quit stealing.

Now I have not eaten any of his food in a long time now, so I was not about to let him have any of it. The problem this time was how do I hide more than 50% of a large pizza while still keeping it refridgerated. I mean all of the shelves, drawers etc… are all completly transparent, and the only shelves big enough to hold a pizza box are easilly noticed when the fridge is open.

Well I was sick of pizza theft, so I looked really closely at the fridge and the pizza. I decided it needed to stay in the box since there was so much left, and there was only one shelf that was clear enough to fit it without completly rearranging the fridge (which would be noticed).

Ok so I realize this is a lot of hype for just a stupid trick, but it worked so here’s what I did… Above the shelf where I was going to put it is a drawer that is filled with my sandwich meat, cheese etc.. well I slightly rearranged that so that you could not see through the drawer at an angle that a person from 6′ or so would be looking at while standing.

Next I took a tupperware type container that was in the fridge that is roughtly the size of half the space between my shelf and the drawer above it and I stuck that, still in plain sight about 1/3 of the way back, above that I stuck the pizza box turned sideways and shoved it between the top of the container and the bottom of the drawer above.

For a final touch I stuck a jar of strawberry jelly that my roommate actually uses in front of the pizza box on the same shelf since there was enough room for it.

Due to his viewing angle when you open the fridge you can see both the jar of jelly and the tupperware container, but you can not see the entire tupperware container only part of it so you do not notice that there is something wedged above it, and looking down the drawer with meats and cheeses is spread out enough to not be able to see the pizza box through there either.

The pizza lasted me for 2 days worth of leftover meals, the jelly was used and put back on the top shelf where I had made enough room for in case he removed wanted to put something else in the fridge.

The entire pizza box was in the fridge for a couple days without ever being noticed. I am fairly sure I could use this strategy multiple times with the same result UNLESS he orders pizza hut or something (the only local pizza place around here), which would mean he would try to pull things off that shelf and shove them up top to be able to slide his pizza box on the shelf.

Now granted, I have spent 10 times more time explaining the process than it actually took me to think of it and put it into action, but I am sure there is somebody out there with a similar situation who could benefit from the line of site hiding strategy I pioneered.

               

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