Posted on 12/17/2024 11:14:28 AM PST by Red Badger
Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A plumber working at a Virginia elementary school made a startling discovery: a Heathcliff lunchbox lost by a student more than 40 years earlier.
Roanoke City Public Schools said in a Facebook post that a plumber was doing maintenance at Fairview Elementary School and came across a metal lunchbox bearing images of the orange cartoon cat.
"Inside, we found a thermos that still smells like hot chocolate, an adorable drawing, and a tag with the student's name: Tracy Drain, who appears to have been in Mrs. Curry's class in Room 30," district officials wrote. "The lunchbox appears to have been made in the early 1980s."
The post eventually came to the attention of the correct Tracy Drain, who lost her lunchbox during her 4th grade year in 1982.
"I think it's amazing," Drain told WDBJ-TV. "If I would've been the person that found it, I would've put it on eBay, and it's finders keepers, losers weepers. But it's very interesting to be able to see it. As far as remembering it, I do not, but it has my mom's handwriting, which I'll treasure right here."
I think that was how Hillary was trained.
A hammer? I had to use a rock. Ya’ll were the rich kids.
I don’t think any of us six kids ever had a thermos last a whole week. After a while Mom just didn’t bother putting them in the lunchboxes to begin with. By about Thanksgiving the boxes themselves were pretty much destroyed, and it was paper bags after that.
After 60 years, give or take, I don’t remember the design on any of my various lunchboxes.
That would be reporting useful information
I still have my Batman lunchbox from the mid ‘69’s. My brother still has his Bonanza and my sister has her Mary Poppins. None of us had a thermos.
Looovve tuna. Good trade.
So I’m imagining now you grew up top be a stock consultant, lawyer or something.
😆
I remember those lunchboxes, and getting pinched by the carry handle stays.
Huh… at least you had BREAD with it….
I just got peanut butter…. Uphill, both ways, barefoot, in snow..l lol!!!
Seriously though, that’s a nice story with a nice ending.
Plumber found Drain’s..
I had Zorro
Watched the ‘JERK’ last Night!
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Did you know that was a Favorite movie of
STANLEY KUBRICK !?!
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As Far as Lunch Boxes-—I just Took
The Ones I Wanted from the Nerds.
The manufacturer just announced that they are starting the 2nd batch of Twinkies, since the original batch is almost all distributed.
It’s the BEST! A week doesn’t go by without reciting a line,... like “That’s all I need! Etc...”
‘Just picked up a Svengoolie lunch box. Didn’t come with a Thermos though- sad.
“maybe a fried egg sandwich”
That’s what I had every day. Fried egg sandwich with mustard. Sitting in my unrefrigerated locker for hours. Did not die.
Thats a neat story.
The NFL Quarterback one belonged to my oldest brother.
I had one Bonanza and my other brother had one too.
The NFL QB one has quite a bit of rust inside it. So, I do not use it very often. I may give it to a guy I work with because his grandfather played for the Bears who had the number jersey on the cover lid.
The Bears and Giants are on the front. The Browns and Lions on the back (I think). The rest of the 1964 NFL teams are around the outside.
During basic training a buddy and I built an interior office inside the small Company office building, it was during Vietnam and I wish I could remember the stuff I wrote on the hidden portions.
I still use the Bonanza lunch box. I brought my lunch in it today.
I hardly use the NFL QB one because it is pretty rusty inside.
I do that all the time, makes the wife crazy.
I leave meat in the oven and dont take it out except for the pieces that I intend to eat right up until I finish it the next day for lunch.
The meat is too hot, dry, and salty for pathogens to get going right away especially in the relatively pathogen free environment.
Never attempt something like that with exposed moist room temp carbs. Even reheating wont help then and there isnt much the hospital can do either.
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