ranting after an absence

[newmistakes]

I don’t take leftovers to work for lunch, no matter how delicious and salivatary-inducing they are. I want to, but I don’t. I can’t. I won’t. It’s a hard and fast rule I’ve never broken and I never ever will.  And it all stems from the first time I saw a communal work fridge and realised that human beings are just really truly disgusting. Milk

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[zoefruitcake]

You wouldn't last long inside ;0)

[newmistakes]

Yes, I suspect I'd have even worse problems in the communal showers :P

Hi Zoe!

[zoefruitcake]

I wouldn't like that either

Hi!

[celtmanx]

LOL! There is a new TV commercial for what product I can't remember where a woman is in a coed shower and sees an attractive man and drops the soap on purpose.

[celtmanx]

You, you nudge me??? I'm really glad to see you back. Yes, communal work fridges can be really disgusting. In the 7 years I've been at my current job I've never used the fridge for that same reason. Now the 2 years I worked at AT&T corporate where the best because the cleaning people cleaned it out every few days. People can be truly disgusting and it makes you wonder what their home fridge looks like.

I've not posted in a while either although recent events at my house were quite post worthy. They even made the news both print and TV and even that infamous fake news rag the National Inquirer, though the fake picture they used of my house did put a nice Volvo in my drive way. Now what happened was not caused by me but it certainly affected me.

[schpydurx]

You can't kiss and not tell like that. Fess up and tell us what really happened. Perhaps a blog post is in order.

[newmistakes]

I'm a rampant nudger, even hypocritically so!

I don't usually like agreeing with schpydurx on general principle, but I have to agree that you are being an extraordinary tease here. What happened??!!!

[celtmanx]

Redrum!

(I’m not saying someone has pissed

[adman]

in the communal fridge, but honestly, if they had, would you really be all that surprised?).

Honestly Jen by the sounds of that fridge would you even know if someone pissed in it?

As mentioned above you gotta wonder what these folks fridges and homes look like inside = SCARY YUCK!!!!!!

Re: (I’m not saying someone has pissed

[newmistakes]

Probably not, but I think that distinct old pee smell might be a give away. The fridge is soooooo bad, but I've never noticed old piss smell emanating from it before.

[dreamer512]

I admit I bring leftovers just about every day at work and keep it in the fridge, but ours isn't that bad. Occasionally there will be something old left behind, and when it becomes clear it's not going to be consumed, I've taken it upon myself to toss it out. I have my own microwave in my office, which others use sometimes, but I can tell you that last I've seen, it's generally cleaner than the ones in our kitchen. And hey, can't you just bring your food the old-fashioned way in a lunch box? Surely if my 5 year olds can do it at school, then so can you!

[newmistakes]

I can bring it in a lunch box, but then what? I can't leave it out in the heat - it would have to be stored in the fridge.. and if it went in the fridge I could never get it out of there again because it would be tainted by THE HORROR.

And don't go overestimating me like that Angela :P There's plenty of things a five year old can capably do that I can't.

[dreamer512]

Oh Jen, I'm going to assume that Australians just aren't familiar with the idea of using coolers, because I know you're smarter than that :p If you pack your lunch in a lunch box or cooler, you just add a small ice pack to keep it cold. No fridge required :p

My kids use these for school- no Tupperware required, and it fits nicely into their thermal totes with an ice pack layered in between.
https://www.yumboxlunch.com/

[newmistakes]

Wow thermal totes! Again, you flatteringly overestimate the functionality of my cranium :P That seems like a lot of work - buying a cooler thingo, putting it in the freezer, remembering to get it out of the freezer and then put it in the lunch box WITH the lunch.. that would take literally hours of forethought and lunch thinkingness :P

[kitegirl24]

You're definitely right about communal situations bring out the worst in humanity! I have fortunately never had to deal with a terrible communal refrigerator period period period first I worked part-time into very small offices were people really even used the refrigerator for anything and it was only a mini fridge, then I spent seven years in office where one of my co-workers was OCD enough to take on the role of managing the fridge herself period period period every 3 to 6 months she would send out an email warning that anything is not removed by Friday would be thrown out and then she would thoroughly clean the fridge :-) it was awesome exclamation

[kitegirl24]

Voice to Text FTW LOL... please excuse any typos and use of the words "period" and "exclamation point" in lieu of the actual punctuation !

[newmistakes]

OHMYGOODNESS Ashley I thought that was sooo cute that you were writing out the punctuation exclamation mark but then you spoiled the adorableness by admitting you were using voce to text haha :) I'm just going to pretend you didn't leave this explanation message and go back to thinking you have an adorable punctuation writing quirk exclamation mark

I feel really sorry for the OCD/clean freaks who clean out the disgusting fridges of the world, they deserve some kind of reward or good citizen citation or something.

[kitegirl24]

LOL ok you can just keep thinking that then exclamation mark

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