What's this?

[Manfred Belheim]

Don't they usually have vents and things in them?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Don't they usually have vents and things in them?

No, because until you twist it open it should be air tight. Question is, when you thread the two pieces together can you leave it with a descent gap around the rim for the 'in use' position? It wouldn't work if as soon as you start twisting it it runs out of threads and comes apart.

 

[Zack]

Looks like a pencil sharpener.

 

[warpus]

Hey OP

Post your question here and somebody will probably figure out what it is.

 

[Borachio]

Actually, now I think about it, I'm always finding strange pieces of plastic scattered round my house. Sometimes I figure out what they are - like a foot off a slow cooker, or something. Often enough I keep them for a few years, resign myself to never knowing what they are, then I throw them out with the garbage.

Only to discover what they are for the very next week. And it's always some crucial function that it costs me a small fortune to get fixed another way.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Actually, now I think about it, I'm always finding strange pieces of plastic scattered round my house. Sometimes I figure out what they are - like a foot off a slow cooker, or something. Often enough I keep them for a few years, resign myself to never knowing what they are, then I throw them out with the garbage.

Only to discover what they are for the very next week. And it's always some crucial function that it costs me a small fortune to get fixed another way.

This is Murphy's Law of small objects. Take note Manfred, if you throw this mysterious thing away your office building will probably fall down the next day.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Hey OP

Post your question here and somebody will probably figure out what it is.

Thanks I'll consider it. I've only ever been to reddit about 3 times and each time I've lasted about 10 seconds before closing it because it just looks like someone vomited raw html only my screen and it just offends my eyes. But maybe it'll be worth it to solve this mystery (although I'm guessing that would mean signing up for an account (and maybe giving my phone number )).

Tim - when you unscrew it it doesn't open very far at all before it falls apart (perhaps a 1mm gap opens up), and it's quite wobbly and unstable even before that. I'm thinking it's probably not an air freshener.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Tim - when you unscrew it it doesn't open very far at all before it falls apart (perhaps a 1mm gap opens up), and it's quite wobbly and unstable even before that. I'm thinking it's probably not an air freshener.

Cool. I'm still leaning with whoever suggested a knob then. You said you found it at the office, yes? I don't know what kind of office you are in, but I've been in lots that may have had a tacky plastic knob on a drawer here or there. Fits with Murphy's Law too. If you throw it away ten minutes later someone will emerge from the payroll department and say everyones checks are in a drawer they can't open because the knob fell off, or something equally insane.

 

[Zack]

Thanks I'll consider it. I've only ever been to reddit about 3 times and each time I've lasted about 10 seconds before closing it because it just looks like someone vomited raw html only my screen and it just offends my eyes. But maybe it'll be worth it to solve this mystery (although I'm guessing that would mean signing up for an account (and maybe giving my phone number )).

Tim - when you unscrew it it doesn't open very far at all before it falls apart (perhaps a 1mm gap opens up), and it's quite wobbly and unstable even before that. I'm thinking it's probably not an air freshener.

Use Reddit Enhancement Suite or a mobile app. Your eyes will stop bleeding.

 

[Kennigit]

If you use reddit, make sure you post like "Hey, my brother found this in an abandoned haumted factory in my hometown with his boyfriend. What is it?"

People will get mad an immediately respond "that's just an XYZ you idiot" and will get plenty of comments

Edit- include the typo

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Use Reddit Enhancement Suite or a mobile app. Your eyes will stop bleeding.

I've studied marketing quite a bit, but I cannot quite figure out where "your eyes will stop bleeding" would fit in the spectrum of product endorsement styles...

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I'd rate it slightly below "you will need to install a third-party app in order to make our website tolerable"

Oh and... I'm also not convinced about the knob suggestion because the whole thing just seems too large and hollow to be a knob. Most knobs are surely just a single bit of solid plastic that you drive a screw into. In addition, the "top" white bit with the slot would have to be the part that faces the drawer (or whatever) as that's the only bit with a hole in, but this is slightly rounder/dome-shaped so it wouldn't fit snugly against the surface. The slightly darker grey "base" would then screw on that and form the out-facing part of the knob, but again this just looks more like the base of something rather than something that should be on show (it has a little moulding mark on it for example). This part actually does have the look of a bottom of something, like it's meant to stand on it. Maybe I need clearer photos.

 

[warpus]

Either way that's probably your best bet at figuring out what that is. That subreddit gets decent traffic.

 

[Bamspeedy]

http://www.dhgate.com/product/fashion-portable-pill-cases-drug-box-pill/161311505.html

I'm imagining an older version of this pill box that doesn't have the words on it, nor the fancy texture.