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That's ...... sad.  Funny.  But sad.  Still, it is funny.  

Alright, bear with me for a moment... I am one of the older employees at my place of work and I bring a plate lunch most every day. It is one of 2 microwavable plates purchased almost 35 years ago. Everyday, the young bucks make fun of me as I wash the plate after eating. [By the way, these same guys spend $5-10 each day on a burger and fries or eat cinnamon rolls from the vending machine and drink a soda]. I explain that I have been cleaning the plate for ~35 years and every morning, it magically appears [filled] in the refrigerator for me to take to work. Why would I want to take a chance and see if the same cycle would happen if I left it dirty?

Hmmmm, I have ben married for 35 years. Do you think my sweet wife has something to do with this?

1986F150Six wrote

Hmmmm, I have ben married for 35 years. Do you think my sweet wife has something to do with this?

Definitely unrelated. I would just say you got lucky and ended up with the Holy Grail of all magic objects: the replenishing fridge.

Ok, so maybe the Holy Grail is your wife....

Love that story, David!  Don't mess with success?
Seriously though, and as we've discussed, we've both out-punted our coverage.  

"What did I do to deserve this?"
Obviously means different things to different people.       😒

1986F150Six wrote

Alright, bear with me for a moment... I am one of the older employees at my place of work and I bring a plate lunch most every day. It is one of 2 microwavable plates purchased almost 35 years ago. Everyday, the young bucks make fun of me as I wash the plate after eating. [By the way, these same guys spend $5-10 each day on a burger and fries or eat cinnamon rolls from the vending machine and drink a soda]. I explain that I have been cleaning the plate for ~35 years and every morning, it magically appears [filled] in the refrigerator for me to take to work. Why would I want to take a chance and see if the same cycle would happen if I left it dirty?

Hmmmm, I have ben married for 35 years. Do you think my sweet wife has something to do with this?

I like this!

I've only been married for 20 years, but have a similar daily routine;). It is only my wife and I, and every night she basically prepares enough food for four so that we each have enough for our lunches the next day, and boy do I get some nice lunches! I always wash my dish out and put it neatly back in my lunch bag, and just yesterday I found the sink in our office full of dishes! Buggers.

If I ever left a dish in the sink growing up I'd get one of those finger pointing lectures asking just who in the hell I thought would clean up after me...lol. I guess it stuck. As much as they drove me crazy back then, I thank them for it today, and thank them often. I call it good parenting privilege!

Rembrant wrote

I like this!

I've only been married for 20 years, but have a similar daily routine;). It is only my wife and I, and every night she basically prepares enough food for four so that we each have enough for our lunches the next day, and boy do I get some nice lunches! I always wash my dish out and put it neatly back in my lunch bag, and just yesterday I found the sink in our office full of dishes! Buggers.

If I ever left a dish in the sink growing up I'd get one of those finger pointing lectures asking just who in the hell I thought would clean up after me...lol. I guess it stuck. As much as they drove me crazy back then, I thank them for it today, and thank them often. I call it good parenting privilege!

"Love begins when a woman sinks into a man's arms and continues with a man's arms in a woman's sink!"

The flavor of most home-cooked meals is so much better than 95% of the food available in restaurants! I often bring a grilled chicken salad to work that I make from the leftovers of the night before. All up, it probably works out to be about $4 a BIG plate. All fresh, all home-cooked (chicken on the outside grill).

The equivalent at a salad bar down the street is $14-15 + tax, and I'm not sure if the chicken is actually real...

Rembrant wrote

If I ever left a dish in the sink growing up I'd get one of those finger pointing lectures asking just who in the hell I thought would clean up after me...lol. I guess it stuck. As much as they drove me crazy back then, I thank them for it today, and thank them often. I call it good parenting privilege!

I fight this fight daily. My two boys....god lovem....hard headed...

Ray Cecil wrote

 My two boys....god lovem....hard headed...

Where did they get that?

My father would have said "They didn't get it from me - I still have mine."  

Gary Lewis wrote

Where did they get that?

Their mother.....nuff said.

So, you still have yours as well?  

When people compliment my daughter regarding her beautiful and full bodied hair, I say that she got it from me... 'nuff said? 

1986F150Six wrote

When people compliment my daughter regarding her beautiful and full bodied hair, I say that she got it from me... 'nuff said? 

Right there with ya dude

Have you guys seen this in the news?

https://jalopnik.com/a-minnesota-farmer-spent-his-life-collecting-cars-and-n-1837066153

I hadn't but impressive isn't even the right word.
I only wish they had interviewed the gentleman before his passing as I am sure more than a few have a pretty good backstory to them.

I would like to know what he drove daily and if he kept a few in a rotation :)

What was the girl referring to that he liked "Pull tabs and drinking"...
I assumed the pull tabs were for cans of beer...but maybe they meant something else?
Those little lotto tickets maybe that you pull the tabs back on?

Funny - I had the exact same thought/question. I was picturing strings of coke can pull tabs adorning every room in his house.

kramttocs wrote

Funny - I had the exact same thought/question. I was picturing strings of coke can pull tabs adorning every room in his house.

Must be referring to the lotto tickets?>..
Or maybe the Pull Tabs refer to drinking beer, and the "drinking" refers to hard liquor?>..lol.

I just went through the auction catalog (slow day at the office...lol) and I see one lowly Bullnose rusting away in the background...

https://vanderbrinkauction.proxibid.com/Collector-Cars/Classic-Vintage-Cars/1950-Chevrolet-Deluxe-4dr-Sedan/lotInformation/48890227#topoflot