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Home Depot Employee Karate Belt Wood Breaking Meme

This is a screenshot of a text-based joke posted as a tweet on X (formerly Twitter). The joke is set at a fictional Home Depot staff meeting, where the boss asks the team who has been breaking all of the store's wood inventory. The first-person narrator, who is secretly the person responsible for breaking the wood, wordlessly tightens their green karate belt before replying that the culprit is probably someone very strong. The humor comes from the obvious implication that the narrator is the guilty party, making their feigned innocence and vague answer funny and relatable.
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Dialogue

BOSS: Someone has been breaking all the wood. Any idea who it is?
ME: Probably someone pretty strong.

Text content

[Home Depot staff meeting]
ME: [tightening my green karate belt]

Overview

This is a screenshot of a text-based joke posted as a tweet on X (formerly Twitter). The joke is set at a fictional Home Depot staff meeting, where the boss asks the team who has been breaking all of the store's wood inventory. The first-person narrator, who is secretly the person responsible for breaking the wood, wordlessly tightens their green karate belt before replying that the culprit is probably someone very strong. The humor comes from the obvious implication that the narrator is the guilty party, making their feigned innocence and vague answer funny and relatable.

Origin notes

This meme originated as an original text tweet published on X (formerly Twitter) by user @FrazzleMyGimp, whose display name is listed as Consider John Frazzled. Screenshots of the tweet were later shared widely across social media platforms including Reddit, Instagram, and other meme-sharing communities as a popular short-form workplace joke.

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