Found an empty periods pad wrapper in our all boys flat dustbin

I had just come back from work, exhausted, when something weird caught my eye. As I tossed my vada pav wrapper into the dustbin, I froze.

Right there, sitting in our bachelor flat’s trash, was a Stayfree pad plastic bag.

For a second, my brain short-circuited.

I live with two guys—Prathmesh and Adi. There was no way this belonged to any of us.

"Arre bhai, yeh kya hai?!" I muttered to myself, picking it up like it was a ticking bomb.

With the efficiency of a detective who has watched way too much CID, I stormed into Prathmesh’s room.

He was lying on his bed, scrolling through reels, fully immersed in some motivational video about "hustle culture."

I threw the bag at him.

"Bro, yeh kya hai?" I demanded.

He screamed—not because of the bag, but because his phone fell on his face.

"Pagal hai kya? Kya leke ghoom raha hai?" he said, rubbing his forehead.

"Yeh pad ka wrapper hamare ghar mein kya kar raha hai?"

Prathmesh blinked at it, then at me. "Bhai, mujhe kya pata? Main thodi pahenta hu!

For a few seconds, we both just stood there, staring at the bag like it was some alien artifact. Then, almost at the same time, we both looked at each other and whispered—

"Adi."

Adi was out on a date. We called him. No response.

We called again. Still nothing.

"Bhai, kahin Adi secretly ladki toh nahi?" I joked.

Prathmesh burst out laughing. "Ya fir adi apne Bandi ko raat mein yaha la raha hai.

For the next ten minutes, we sat there coming up with ridiculous conspiracy theories, from Adi having a secret identity to him being a black-market reseller of feminine hygiene products.

Then the door opened.

Adi walked in, looking all happy and refreshed from his date. Before he could even take off his shoes, we threw the Stayfree bag at him.

"Explain."

Adi looked at it, looked at us, and then—he started laughing so hard he almost fell over.

"Bhai… yeh toh mera hai!"

I felt my entire life had been a lie.

"MATLAB?!?" I nearly yelled.

Still chuckling, Adi wiped his eyes and finally explained.

"When I went home last weekend, my mom wrapped my soap bar in this bag before packing it in my suitcase. She said, ‘Plastic nahi mila, toh yeh use kar liya.’"(Auntie ji news paper use kar leti app)

Silence.

Then—absolute chaos.

"Soap ke liye Stayfree? Ye toh NASA level innovation hai!"

We laughed so hard our neighbors probably thought we had lost it.

our respect for Adi’s mom’s jugaad?Next level.