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."
Thanks Red Badger. Yeah, 40 years, really long time ago. ;^)
I was a young man then.... I wore an onion on my belt as was the style in those days..................
When the guy that found it tells this story he should add “I ate the Twinkie”.
My sister and I pack our sandwiches in wax paper like our mother did when she packed our lunch boxes. Even for lunches now, when we are eating right then - it is like mom is with us.
We were just talking the other day about the lunches our mother packed for us every single day except when the school lunch ladies had pizza, burgers and fries or chili con carne and then she would scrounge for change so we could eat the school lunch.
If I saw my mother’s writing right now, I would dissolve in tears.
When I started first grade, milk was free and they had paper straws. Then, they started charging a nickel, then a dime by 3rd grade. They they added chocolate milk and our school went nuts!
I was thinking the same thing.
I think we also brought 5 cents for a small milk carton :)
I had one like that and I broke the thermos when the box came unlatched. I was in trouble.
I had a Davy Crockett lunch pail circa 1956.
‘It’s Not the Money...
It’s All the STUFF!’
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And the PB&J sandwich was still edible!
We got milk at mid morning for 2 cents in small cardboard milk container. Choice of white or chocolate. Lunch was 25 cents and included another milk - but only white milk option for lunch.
Later it was raised to 35 cents for lunch. By then we were older and no morning milk break for us “big” kids.
I found a hand forged adz in wall of a 125 year old church I was renovating. It must have fallen down between the outside wall and the plaster wall from the top of the belltower. The owner probably didn’t have the heart to bust out the plaster to retrieve it.
A guy could have a helluva weekend in Vegas with that stuff.
Kids used to be sent to school with a paper bag with unrefrigerated food, bologna, egg salad, tuna fish, maybe a fried egg sandwich.....
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When I was in university, there was a fellow in my classes who came from a fishing village in Newfoundland. He said that when he was a kid growing up, it was easy to tell the kids from rich families. “They got bologna sandwiches..... the rest of us just got lobster sandwiches.”
Sounds like you were a rap scallion.
Nowadays just a leeker...
Someone sniffed the inside of that old thermos? Didn’t it smell like spoiled milk?
Allium, chives, uh, I’ll work on it...
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