Thus read the note I stuck on one of the refrigerators at work late last night.

Now, I know the container isn't lost. It has been tossed out by whomever was charged with cleaning the fridges last week. And I understand, completely, why it was tossed: it is far too time consuming to look at the container, notice is has chicken in it, and keep it on the shelf.

It is much more economical — from a fridge-cleaning approach — to simply scoop stuff into a big trash can.

And it isn't like we aren't given a warning. Each Friday before the big Frigidaire purge an announcement is made warning us the kitchen is about to be cleaned and that if we want to save anything we should scurry on down to the cafeteria.

Yes, yes, yes. I understand.

As a matter of fact we run by a similar set of rules in IT. Before someone's network password expires they receive a warning that states, "You have six grace logins before your password expires. Would you like to change your password now?" Six eventually decrements down to one if a person continues to login, day after day, without creating a new password. If the person fails to change passwords before running out of grace logins they are locked out. When that happens I, knowing the person will have no use whatsoever for any of their data as they can no longer access it, run a script that purges anything they've ever touched from our network.

It's a big time saver for me and lets me get out of work twenty seconds earlier.

No. Wait. I don't do that.

When you get right down to it, the container is my responsibility. And it never really had a chance. I took chicken in to work for lunch on Thursday and forgot to eat it. I forgot to eat it Friday as well although I remembered it that night before I went to bed. By then the container's fate had been sealed (burped and sealed, if I may) and I decided not to worry about it until Monday morning.

Oh yea, and my grandparents all passed a long, long time ago.

Posted by delmer at August 21, 2007 5:53 PM

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Your container disappeared through a hole in the space-time continuum caused by some weird magnetic force and is currently on an island in the South Pacific being mind-f****** by some black foggy stuff, the French Woman, and a bunch of crazy leftovers from the Dharma Initiative. You will never actually find out what happened.

Posted by: Icy Mt. at August 22, 2007 9:56 AM

I may never find out but I'll get a kick out of seeing how the disappearance is explained.

Posted by: delmer at August 22, 2007 10:43 PM