Wow, return to the 60’s when I took bagged lunches to school.
O)MG! The 60’s. Bagged lunches. Breakfast at home. Eating breakfast at home pretty much guarantees a lack of persons of color at the breakfast tables of white children. In other words, Alabama is bringing back segregation! Well, part time.
When I was in Second Grade, I remember taking my lunchbox that had the plaid Thermos in it.
I used to get jumped by a bully as I walked to school each day (He seemed to always just be standing there waiting for me) and when I was allowed to pick up my books and lunch box to continue on, I remember picking up my thermos, which often had Campbell’s soup in it, and gently shaking it side to side, only to hear the sad sound of a slurry of the broken insulating glass inside.
My mom used to get so pissed. With six kids, she always had a bunch of spares on hand, but...I seemed to be the only one getting them broken.