randoms

• "The Monsters of Templeton" is really very good (thank you NY Times Book Review!)
• Reddi Whip makes any kind of bland dessert even better.
• When confronted with the prospect of a hard frost in April, red squirrels are capable of making incredible leaps from amazingly distant pieces of lawn furniture onto tempting bird feeders.
• My lesson for the day at Widget Central was: write your name on your Lean Cuisine before trustingly storing it in the second-floor town hall freezer. I walked in at lunchtime today, rummaged through the freezer, and found my meal GONE. There were several other frozen entrees there, but all of them contained meat and I do not tend to purchase anything except the vegetable ones, because I find the meat in any kind of frozen meal to be "Smeat" and horrid and gristly and gag-worthy. I immediately uttered some foul oaths and proclaimed to the two startled bystanders using the microwaves, "SOMEONE STOLE MY LUNCH!" There was a moment of shocked silence and then one of them politely said, "REALLY? What was it?" I advised him as to the type of Lean Cuisine it had been. The other bystander gave a guilty start and said, "Oh, I'm microwaving that right now!" I fixed her with a gimlet eye and she said hastily that her HUSBAND had packed her Lean Cuisine for her that morning and she hadn't known what kind it was, so she had just pulled one out of the Widget Central freezer that "seemed right." She surrendered it without a fight and then went over to the freezer and blithely pulled another meal out without reading the box. I was on the verge of asking, "Meathead, if you don't know what kind he packed you -- EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE THE ONE WHO TOOK IT OUT OF YOUR LUNCH BAG AND PUT IT IN THE WIDGET CENTRAL FREEZER AT SOME POINT -- then how do you know THAT is yours?" But since I had recovered my lunch, it was not my job to safeguard some other poor sap's Sesame Chicken from the slavering wolfpack who exist on the second floor of Widget Central. Write your name on things. To her credit, she did seem properly horrified that she had practically taken food out of the mouth of a six-month-pregnant woman. I shudder to think what might have happened if I'd arrived at the freezer a few minutes later.

Comments

[sueeeus]

What is UP with people??? There are those who steal food where I work too, and it's supposedly a 'world class professional company'...

My husband actually installed cameras in their break room because of so many complaints regarding people stealing food. Unbelievable. His company is more blue collar, but still. No excuse.

Glad you got your lunch back!!