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A man has been slammed online for spoiling a “mystery neighbor” game for his entire building.
The 40-year-old man and original poster (OP), Reddit user Prudent-Alfalfa-8140, lives in a small apartment complex where, “Everyone knows each other,” he explained in a post on Jan. 17.
A few months ago, according to the OP, one of his neighbors started sweetly leaving cookies, flowers and other little gifts on doorsteps—anonymously.
Mystery Solved
One morning, however—as speculation among excited community members as to the identity of this Good Samaritan ramped up—the OP happened to catch his upstairs neighbor, who didn’t see him, sneaking down the hallway with a basket full of goodies. Mystery solved.
But rather than keep his discover quiet, the OP—much to everyone else’s disappointment—blabbered.

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“At our next building hangout, people were jokingly trying to guess who it was, and I casually said, ‘Oh, it’s Megan, isn’t it?'” the OP wrote in a post that’s drawn around 300 upvotes in the past six days.
“Megan went bright red… She admitted it, but looked embarrassed. Now some people are upset with me for ruining the fun. A few neighbors said they liked the mystery and that I [spoiled] it for everyone.
Cover Blown
“Megan hasn’t been as friendly since, and I feel bad because she clearly [liked] being anonymous.”
Across follow-up comments, the OP admitted that, looking back, he shouldn’t have blown Megan’s cover. Many Redditors agreed and clearly understood his neighbors’ frustration.
One of the various users who critically answered the OP’s call for outside opinions on this matter responded: “If she had wanted everyone to know it was her, she wouldn’t have kept it a ‘mystery’. I don’t blame neighbors for being upset or Megan for being less friendly.
“Someone tried to do an anonymous, kind deed, and you made sure you ruined it.”
A second critic similarly chimed in: “Yeah you’re definitely [in the wrong]. No one really wanted to know who it was—the excitement of not knowing was… so appealing.”
‘You had to ruin it’
A third also blasted the OP for dampening the “buzz” around the building: “The world is on fire. Someone decided to bring some kindness to people to enjoy. You had to ruin it.”
Elsewhere in the discussion thread, a different user plainly expressed that: “Reading this made me sad. Your actions made me sad.”
Plus, another of the roughly 270 or so largely blame-filled comments fired at the OP came from a quipping user who sarcastically asked: “Do you tell little kids at the mall that Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy aren’t real?”
In other neighbor drama that Redditors have weighed in on, the “petty revenge” a couple got on the neighbors who kept reporting them was praised online, as previously covered by Newsweek.
‘Big deal’
Internet users were left stunned by a woman’s claims that her elderly neighbor had been entering (and even cleaning) her home without her knowing for years, as Newsweek also reported.
In reply to the barrage of criticism, the OP said in the thread: “I didn’t think it was much big of a deal.”
Newsweek contacted Prudent-Alfalfa-8140 for comment via Reddit.
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