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September 12, 2006
if you love your pudding, label it
i had this brilliant idea a couple of weeks ago: bring enough food for a whole week to work on Monday. this works incredibly well in my effort to improve my lunchtime habits, because at lunch i always follow the path of least resistance. walking down the hall to the breakroom is much easier than walking to the cafe or to my car. so if i have the food there, i eat it. excellent!
ok, so there's this sign on the refrigerator door that says it will be cleaned out every Monday. I assume this means at 0'dark-thirty Monday morning, when the housekeeping staff is around, and I pay it little mind, because I clean all my stuff out on Friday, then bring new stuff Monday.
Happily, I brought very little stuff yesterday because I was out of town all weekend and had to do my grocery shopping last night. But I did bring some lasagne (which I ate), some grapes (left over from last week, but still good), and some small tubs of butterscotch pudding. And some DDP.
"Funny," I thought this morning as I unloaded a week's worth of sandwich supplies, yougurt, and more DDP into the fridge. "Didn't I have some food in here last night?"
The grapes I remembered, and didn't feel too sad about losing them. After a week of grapes, I was a little tired of them.
The DDP is a little baffling. Soda doesn't go bad, why throw it away?
Then this afternoon I remembered the pudding. Oh, woe. They threw away my pudding! Dammit.
Still, there is no point in being angry at the faceless powers that render the fridge clean each Monday evening. They cannot know that that pudding was perfectly fresh, and loved by somebody. I have learned my lesson.
I will label my pudding.
Posted by lisa at September 12, 2006 02:47 PM
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So if it has your name on it, they won't throw it away? Get one of those big 2-gallon or so ziploc bags, put your name on it, and put all your stuff in that bag. Or put your name on the outside of the refrigerator. :) As Mark Twain said, "Put all your eggs in one basket, and -- WATCH THAT BASKET."
Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on September 12, 2006 03:00 PM
That's the theory. We'll see if they abide by that rule.
I've taken over a crisper drawer, but because I don't want them to toss a week's worth of food, I will probably label and date every single item rather than putting a sign on the drawer itself or laying a sheet of paper over the items in the drawer with a note, or something.
Posted by: lisa on September 12, 2006 04:37 PM
with apologies to Pink Floyd:
"If you don't mark your treats, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't mark your treats?!"
Posted by: Phil on September 12, 2006 10:23 PM
i do the same thing, but find that sometimes THERE'S A THIEF amongst us. apparently the lure of an entire crisper-drawer full of food (that's where i keep mine, too) is too much for some co-workers to resist. sometimes i'll be missing yogurt cups or fat free weiners.
seriously. who would steal fat-free weiners??
Posted by: xta on September 14, 2006 03:48 PM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.