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We've all been the person in a social setting staring blankly because we didn't get the inside joke, well, the latest viral meme "James Barrett's wife" kind of feels like that - until you read the backstory.

It all started with a Facebook Messanger screengrab posted by Daniella Gay, in which she received an innocent enough question from a James Barret, "What are your plans this evening." Well like most people do at 4 am on a Friday night she wrote back, "Draw vegetables." But alas! Gay had been tricked and unintentionally caught the bait of Barrett's jealous wife who wrote: " “Hey. Just to let u know. Im james barretts wife. Fuck off.” She posted the bizarre try to stop a cheating husband and from there, “Noticing it got a lot of traction, I made a bunch of funny memes about the scenario” she told the Daily Dot. Things took off from there and overnight she had 2,000 shares and thousands of likes on the memes.

But who is James Barrett? The vegetable artist explained that he was a random guy who had probably found her through a mutual friend. According to Gay, these unsolicited messages are quite common, and she responds to many of them.

It's clear this meme isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Gay even created a Facebook meme group called, "artisan vegetable enthusiasts," where people can share more James Barrett's wife memes and vegetables. Scroll down below to see some of the best memes from this married life inconvenience people came up with! Don't forget to upvote your favs! (Facebook cover image: adrawer4ever)

Recently this message exchange went viral

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Internet could not help but ridicule the conversation by turning it into a meme

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rakuninaru
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did she really throw her in the comics?

xzt cxz
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what does it mean to draw vegetables?

Andrea Jones
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum now thinks i'm weird because she didn't find this funny when i was belly laughing with tears tripping me hahaha!!!

Night Owl
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone in Germany allegedly did something similar yesterday because the woman was blocking his way with her wheelchair :/

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    Panda Kicki
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is tempting to think the wife is overreacting. But I dont think we see the whole picture here(pun intended) 🙂 It only a few lines from a conversation, that might have been a whole lot juicier before the veggie drawing. On the other hand, she did snoop in James phone, probably without permission... Wonder if James also was told to **** off?

    Skylar Thompson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Normally you'd be right, but we can see that it's the start of a conversation

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    Emir
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never get tired of this picture.

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    Ryo Bakura
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I just want him to make love to me like he did when we were in our 20's... but those damn vegetable drawings take up all of his free time."

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    Parmeisan
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wasn't, like, not enjoying this thread or anything. But this is the first one where I laughed out loud.

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    Nathaniel Bong
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thenpic should show a whole chunk of meat in the trolley though...

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    Night Owl
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She really does seem to be unstable

    Mr. Re-in-act-ment
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mabye the vegetable artist drew a "eggplant"

    Hendra Lim
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how comes vegetable drawings get people triggered?

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    Conrad Strucker
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    7 years ago

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    Suparna Gibbs
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wife looks surprisingly boyish...

    danielw
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and the vegetable artist.... well... there's no real reason to be worried, if that's, uh, her.

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    Ryo Bakura
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? The kid in the background jumped high enough for his head to touch the ceiling, and the other one is running down the corridor.

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    Ariel
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is he picking her pocket?

    Ryo Bakura
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trying to record it on his phone, I think.

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    Night Owl
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    7 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeh, someone should send (force feed) her some vegetable pics. She'd probably explode. I'm just kidding of course (don't dox and spam people), but come on, who gets angry and jealous about something like that?!