Proto Himbo EuropeanBecause it's been a few days: here is a photo of the loneliest cheeto. Like, literal cheeto. In the stairwell outside my office since Nov. 7.
Here is Day 1: Nov. 7.
Four days later, after the weekend, the #LonelyCheeto was still there. I made a hashtag, which is going to be kind of embarrassing if Maintenance cleans it up tomorrow.
Day 5 (Nov. 11)
Day 6 (11/12). #LonelyCheeto is still there.
Realizing I even hate the word "cheeto" now because it's associated with the asshat-in-chief.
Realizing I even hate the word "cheeto" now because it's associated with the asshat-in-chief.
Day 12 (Nov. 18, today): The #LonelyCheeto Abides
(I feel better about wasting a hashtag on this, realizing it's been 12 days).
(I also had to edit this post because I got the date wrong at first)
Note: I noticed the cheeto on Nov. 7 (or possibly a couple of days before... memory is hazy). I started taking pics to see how long it would remain in the stairwell, despite hundreds of humans passing by every day. I decided to wait on posting the pics until it had been there at least a week.
Hm, hashtags... okay. I will make some questionable choices, here, in a shameless bid for others to see the cheeto.
Day 13 (today, Nov. 19). The #LonelyCheeto is still there and still lonely.
Day 14 (November 20). Cheeto is still standing.
The fuck? Did this post? I did it on 11/21... maybe it posted. It's sitting here, editable, like some kind of draft. Anyway, here it is, from way back a week ago.
Day 15 (November 21): I gave myself a scare! I dropped by the office to check on the #LonelyCheeto and it wasn't there! (2nd pic). However, after my heart rate went back to normal I realized I was on the wrong floor. It's still there! WHY?! I am cheering for it, but how in the blazes is Maintenance missing it every day? For two weeks?
I am carefully not telling anyone at my place of employment about the cheeto. I don't look directly at it if there is anyone else in the stairway; I don't want to draw attention to it. But everyone must look at it every time they go up or down the stairs. It's right there. And it's bright orange.
Okay, NOW I can post today's update.
IT IS STILL THERE.
This is day... what... (counts on fingers)... DAY 22?!
Day 27! Oh no, now I'm thinking of the 27 club or whatever. Hang in there, little cheeto!
9:20 a.m., day 28.
Oh Iaaiiiaaaahhaaa aaaaahhheeeaaauy I'm still aliiiive
I waited until 5pm (EST, USA) to post this. At 9:30 a.m., as seen in the previous post, the #LonelyCheeto was in its sad little place, greeting me with its bit of artificial brightness in the dark stairwell.
At 2:00 pm...
Whoever the monster is who removed it, couldn't they at least have let us reach 30 days? Why should I even go to work anymore?*
(*TBF, I ask myself that a lot)
Fritz Adalis@guyjantic
OH NO!
OH NO!
@guyjantic
Keep putting a new one there.
Keep putting a new one there.
@FritzAdalis This is the best idea!
@guyjantic
After a few times do 2, then 3, then 8, then skip a week.
After a few times do 2, then 3, then 8, then skip a week.
@FritzAdalis My daughter and I have been discussing this in the past 10 minutes. I think my favorite plan is long-term madness: get a collection of cheetos that look very similar to each other and close enough to the original that nobody will remember the difference. Every time one disappears, I place another one in exactly the same spot. I think I can keep this up until spring break, at least.
Hedgewizard 🐈
Jason844 🙃@guyjantic Oh no! We'll miss you #LonelyCheeto!
You give us a small flash of orange brightness & humor in our (or at least my) lonely lives!
Bruce Heerssen 
JohnnieMac@guyjantic Too bad there is no Cheeto-cam
@JohnnieMac This was considered and discussed, and I was leaning in that direction before I remembered I work at a public university and that could probably have been used as an excuse to fire me.
nick@guyjantic We must imagine the Cheeto happy.
Nixanadoo and You too@guyjantic In the stairwell at my last job someone left a pair of safety goggles that I took a photo of or with every day for the year I worked there. I took them when I left.
@nixanadoo I have joined a secret club!
Hurrah for the 'lil #LonelyCheeto!
Sordid Amok!@guyjantic Somebody I knew kept track of a Fruit Loop in a public bathroom. She was kind of upset when it was gone one day.
SupermoosieIs it the same Cheeto, or is someone replacing it each day?
Needs a little mark on it to prove it is the same one
acm@guyjantic alt text: The photo shows a commercial staircae of some sort, with two tones of gray brick on the walls, something like slate on the landings, and tannish ruberized step protectors on the steps, of which only one is visible. It makes a nice abstract architectural shot. Berely visible on the baseboard around the landing is a single bright-orange dot/cheeto.
@acm_redfox Thanks. The photo already had alt text, the cheeto is in exactly the same place as for the last half dozen shots with alt text describing the scene, and it's pretty clear from overwhelming context that this was the case. But yours helps, too.
@guyjantic yes, for when it's boosted in isolation into somebody's feed, like mine!
@guyjantic The #LonelyCheeto lives!
VulcanTouristI'm voting for the building's hungry mouse to find it.
@VulcanTourist Funny you should say that; half a flight up is my office, which used to be my buddy's office a couple of years ago. He definitely found traces of mice in there. I think the cheeto must have some kind of mouse-cloaking device. Or maybe there's just no safe way for mice to get to that landing. Anyway, it's been almost a month and no mouse has eaten it yet (knock on wood).