My wife and I made the 32-hour drive to surprise my parents years back in 2018. I hadn't been home to visit for quite some time after having moved out of country. While there, I came across a particular fork that I realized I had favored my entire life and had all but forgotten about after moving away. It was completely unlike the other (albeit somewhat mismatched) forks in their collection. It featured four slightly shorter, slightly sharper tines, seperated in the center by a wider, deeper gap than found between the rest of them, and with fancier metalwork along the handle. As I held that trusty piece in my hand, I felt as though I had been reunited with something I never realized I had lost. It was like having a mannerism pointed out that you didn't realize you've been doing, but have grown hyper-aware of it now. This was my fork. This was an extension of myself practically worthy of a name.

So I took it. Unapologetically. I simply informed my parents that I had found my fork, and then I took it. I carried it 1,794 mi (2,410 km) back to where she belonged, and I've used that fork nearly every evening of my life ever since, for the past 6 or 7 years.

This is her here. Look upon her gently. See how she glints in the light.. They say that the elves have a special word for her, though I've never heard it spoken.. But I know how it sounds in my heart.

omg I'm holding it right now.

My parent's have this fork with dull teeth. Can't even pick up salad. Fuck that thing.

Screw that noise. When i moved into my own place, I bought a matching set of silverware and they are all still here a decade later. Hated having 27 different styles of cutlery.

I bought a full matching set around that age and donated the rest. I felt like a supreme human being. Years later... where the fuck did these rogue forks and spoons come from?

That's why me and my girl just dumped all our silverware and got a single set, it's been awesome

I definitely have silverware I hate, but you know what I hate even more than my least favorite silverware? All but a single wooden spoon we have because they all have rectangular handles instead of being rounded. We have a SINGULAR round handled wooden spoon! Makes me irrationally angry, even if I don't ever show it.

We actually have one fork with slightly bent tines that we lovingly refer to as the "autistic fork".

I have a plastic fork I never use. I keep it around because it's a pretty damn fancy plastic fork and I'm just amazed at its existence. Too light, and too fragile to use, I just keep it in the cutlery drawer to inspire the others

one of my forks has an absurd amount of hard water mineral build-up on it and i have no idea why....

now it sits in the drawer unloved and unused for eternity.

true.
i also have a favorite fork that i'm always sad when i didn't clean it and it's not available -.-
yes i realize i only have myself to blame...

My identical twin likes the thick heavy utensils. Or so they told me. So every time I served them I gave them the heaviest ones. Only to be told years later no! None of them were the right ones!

Of course none are the right ones, the best utensils are the light delicate ones so I don't feel them at all!

My wife brought it home and I hate it. I refuse to use it.

If I find random cutlery in my drawer that doesn't match the matching adult cutlery that I purchased so we can look like adults...I chuck it into the recycle bin. I don't care anymore. I don't know how they get there and make them disappear.

I have been using the same spoon for breakfast cereal for at least ten years, now. Not that I always eat cereal for breakfast.

You mean the ones that have a dumb shaped handle and all the edges are sharp, as if it was just punched out of a piece if sheet metal and dumped directly into the fork bin in my utensil drawer?

Why is it flatter than the rest? And why does that matter?!

Glad to know Ive achieved at least some normal milestones.

All cutlery in my drawer is uniform, but I know people who have a mish mash of different colors, sizes and whatnot so I understand in that case.

I have a fork that doesn't match the rest. It was bought about twenty years ago for me to use at work. I absolutely hated that job and unfortunately this poor fork now is now forever associated with it.

Yeah I have one thats been in the family for 60 years. Plain old chromed stainless so no value but sentimental. Fortunately its in a part of the drawer I don't access often

And it will never he broken or used up because you never use it.

There is hope young traveler. At age 42, I replaced all the funky mismatched 'silverware' with 2 new sets of matchy-matchy black stainless. Life is good now and that wierd fork will never darken my drawer again.

I will not miss you funky forks and spoons, but you are forgiven.

My wife's parents died 5 years ago, and she took a lot of stuff from the house. She even took the silverware and mixed it in with ours. I can't tell her, but I absolutely hate them and will avoid at all cost.

How is everyone obsessed with cutlery. I just eat with whatever I get and am fine with it. My parents bought an expensive set of cutlery, because "it's paintful to use the cheap, sharp spoons/forks". How and why does this matter? I feel no difference.

I even don't know how there's that fucking heavy and thicker fork between my forks

I just use my hands for everything. So much easier, and if you don't wash up after, you have extra nutrients for the next meal!

So important in this economy.

Yeah matching set for life. They don’t make it any more but I am still able to buy replacements from Replacements ltd.

My rule when picking this set was the spoons have to be strong enough to scoop ice cream without bending.

My gf just got some copper forks. I think I'll have to move out

i mean the shape is just wrong
i mean it is perfectly functional, easy to use, etc. but ... wrong

The heavy, thick utensils are my favorites.

But, really, since the kid moved out, and I'm alone now, I only use the utensils I need, and I use the same ones every day, washing as I go. Fork, spoon, sharp knife for cooking, small bowl-plate, large bowl-plate, coffee mug, big insulated cup for cold drinks, and a pair of clicky tongs.

.. and 2 knives i hate.

I don't like unmatching cutlery. Every fork needs to be the same style and bent at the same angle so they can "spoon" neatly in the drawer. (Yes, incorrect the bend when I see one who deviates) What kind of monster do you think I am.

In fact, that's why my wife and I live in different apartments. Her drawer loons like the thrift shop cutlery box. 😱

Edit: I'm just reading that people consider forks "bad" when the times are unaligned. It's quite easy to align them. I check them after each wash. Using a knife to slightly bend them in place does the trick.

I always wonder what happened to forks in other houses where they are all bent. Do people chew on them?

I have one that somehow got bent and now doesn't stack nicely with all its clones. I don't feel like bending it back because of metal fatigue issues.