I’m sure you have had this happen to you. You sit down to a nice bowl of Corn Pops or Fruity Pebbles, you set your spoon down to take a drink of OJ, and *SPLOOSH!* There goes your spoon into the sugary depths of milk in the bottom of your bowl.

Or worse yet, now that I am “grown up” and have real cutlery,  not the stuff you get 2 for a buck at Wal-Mart, the heavy duty stuff where if you drop it on your fork on the floor and accidentally step on it, it bites back instead of getting flattened. The kind of cutlery that is heavy enough to capsize your cereal bowl when you get to bottom, sloshing that aforementioned sugary pink (from the Fruity Pebbles) liquid all over the table… or more likely your clean shirt, causing you to have to change and end up late for work? (And no, I will not confirm or deny that any of the above has ever actually happened to me.)

Well, worry no more.

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I originally wrote and posted the following on my website over 10 years ago…

Ok… I admit it. I’m a bachelor.

This was confirmed tonight when I went to clean out my fridge. (This was part of a grander cleaning of the kitchen that I do every few weeks whether it needs it or not.) Now, I didn’t go to my fridge expecting to have it confirmed that I am a bachelor, but when I was talking later to a couple friends, and mentioned a couple of things I found there, they both made it a point of telling me that I am.

Here’s a glimpse of some of the things I found. First, something I’m sure not just bachelors will relate with here, this is something anyone who’s had their fridge too packed for awhile to notice that little container in that bottom corner. And by the time you find it you have no idea what it was It’s now a dark greenish-grey color, but what color it was originally?

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