After hearing a knock on her door last Friday, Mindy Transmeier opened it to find an emotional support pickle on her porch.
“My daughters and I sat on the couch and we were just reading it. I was like, ‘Oh, that makes my day,’” Transmeier said.
The emotional support pickle is a crocheted toy pickle holding a note that says, “I will always be around to let you know that you’re a big dill.”
Transmeier said she saw no footprints, car or any other evidence that somebody was at her door. She had no idea who was behind the gift.
“That act of kindness is unbelievable. It just came at the right time,” she said.
Several people around town have said they received a pickle on their doorstep over the last week. The phenomenon of emotional support pickles was recently featured on CBS News and in Canadian media, with pickles also available to buy through Amazon and Walmart.
Danielle Loftin began a discussion in the Eudora community Facebook page after receiving a pickle several days ago.
“I’m not sure if it was just a random act of kindness or you accidentally had the wrong house, but good on you, sir, whatever your intentions were,” Loftin’s post said.
Loftin captured a video of “The Pickler,” who appears to be a male teenager, on her Ring doorbell and shared it with the Eudora Times.
The Eudora Times reached out to multiple school officials and high school students in town throughout the week, but no one recognized who the mystery gifter is. Messages left with school officials from De Soto and Lawrence were not immediately returned.
Perhaps knowing people were trying to figure out who he is, a more recent image captured of The Pickler had him wearing sunglasses.
Although The Pickler’s identity remains a mystery, the gifts brightened the days of many throughout the past week.
Transmeier also posted on the community Facebook group after receiving her pickle, mentioning the joy it’s brought to her family.
“It makes you smile. It just makes you believe that there’s still goodness out there,” Transmeier said.
Shelly Rousselo-Buchanan is one of the most recent recipients of an emotional support pickle. She received it within 30 minutes of commenting on a post in the Facebook group.
“It was the strangest thing,” she said. “We didn’t see anybody at all in the neighborhood.”
Rousselo-Buchanan said this is a great thing for somebody to be doing.
“I just about cried,” she said. “It’s just little things like that, that I think that is, you know, paying it forward.”
Annie Thompson posted a photo of her pickle, dubbing the deliverer as “The Pickler.”
“It was left without a trace. I love it,” Thompson said in her post on the Facebook page.
Any idea who the mystery person is? Email us at [email protected]. We’d love to talk to The Pickler for a story.
