Not sure if this classifies as a sighting since well I haven't actually seen the people that sent us this stuff, but you kinda have to wonder about what this says about people. Another thread made me think of this, and take the time to monkey around with the stuff.
Couple weeks back, a faded ryder truck pulled up to the house and two guys working for some care agency (think meals on wheels) began to offload some three heavy boxes of crap. Now I don't know why they thought we needed the food, heck only thing I can come up with was my mom's having been in the hospital just after my dad passed away. Still, free food is free food right?
I'm not so sure that people think when they give to these things. Some really make me wonder about people in fact. I mean, who gives this...oh wait, that makes sense there. Give it away, let someone else deal with it.
Commentary, and my thoughts in ()'s.
Opening the first box, I find:
6 fruitcakes. One so hard that it made a heavy THUD when dropped upon the floor. (I think it expired in 1980...)
17 cans of, what I can best describe as bean crap. Mexican bean crap. Complete with tripe. (cow stomach and beans...yum. NOT!)
1 six pack of coke. New coke no less. (This is up on my shelf. Not about to drink it, and tempted to EBay it off)
1 2 liter of Tab cola. (Nasty stuff. Didn't know they still made it.)
4 cans of condensed milk, 1 of which was empty. No leaks in the box though... (I was robbed! Space aliens took my milk!)
2 boxes of expensive cookies. (Not that I'm complaining, but now I'm hooked on the things and CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE!)
1 Loaf of bunny bread. I don't know when it expires, but I know the type. It'll never spoil. (No lie there. Too many preservatives)
3 bricks of cheese. All expired sometime last year. One brick leaks. (Leaking cheese?)
2 bible tracts. (can I eat this too?)
1 bill. (someone forgot to pay their phone...)
Assorted bits that I think were cookies at one point. And one dead cricket. I mourned the cricket.
Opening the second and third box I find:
The entire thing is stuffed full of MRE's and C rations. Now if I remember correctly, C rations went out sometime in the sixties, but these look older. I've only opened a few though, and I must admit that the potted meat (I hope it's meat) isn't half bad and the MRE's are very nice. (Meals Ready to Eat. Army Food) I may have to get more of these.
The army food, I know where it came from. Local armory had to swap out its stock. It's the other stuff that gets me. I mean really, who puts a bible tract into a food gift? Or better yet, why the leaky cheese and the missing milk?
Couple weeks back, a faded ryder truck pulled up to the house and two guys working for some care agency (think meals on wheels) began to offload some three heavy boxes of crap. Now I don't know why they thought we needed the food, heck only thing I can come up with was my mom's having been in the hospital just after my dad passed away. Still, free food is free food right?
I'm not so sure that people think when they give to these things. Some really make me wonder about people in fact. I mean, who gives this...oh wait, that makes sense there. Give it away, let someone else deal with it.
Commentary, and my thoughts in ()'s.
Opening the first box, I find:
6 fruitcakes. One so hard that it made a heavy THUD when dropped upon the floor. (I think it expired in 1980...)
17 cans of, what I can best describe as bean crap. Mexican bean crap. Complete with tripe. (cow stomach and beans...yum. NOT!)
1 six pack of coke. New coke no less. (This is up on my shelf. Not about to drink it, and tempted to EBay it off)
1 2 liter of Tab cola. (Nasty stuff. Didn't know they still made it.)
4 cans of condensed milk, 1 of which was empty. No leaks in the box though... (I was robbed! Space aliens took my milk!)
2 boxes of expensive cookies. (Not that I'm complaining, but now I'm hooked on the things and CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE!)
1 Loaf of bunny bread. I don't know when it expires, but I know the type. It'll never spoil. (No lie there. Too many preservatives)
3 bricks of cheese. All expired sometime last year. One brick leaks. (Leaking cheese?)
2 bible tracts. (can I eat this too?)
1 bill. (someone forgot to pay their phone...)
Assorted bits that I think were cookies at one point. And one dead cricket. I mourned the cricket.
Opening the second and third box I find:
The entire thing is stuffed full of MRE's and C rations. Now if I remember correctly, C rations went out sometime in the sixties, but these look older. I've only opened a few though, and I must admit that the potted meat (I hope it's meat) isn't half bad and the MRE's are very nice. (Meals Ready to Eat. Army Food) I may have to get more of these.
The army food, I know where it came from. Local armory had to swap out its stock. It's the other stuff that gets me. I mean really, who puts a bible tract into a food gift? Or better yet, why the leaky cheese and the missing milk?
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