Things you find behind the television, when you pull it out to disconnect the VCR (yes, VCR, not DVD. Not Blue Ray--TRUTH IN BLOGGING DISCLOSURE: this tv is in the living room and is the main unit we watch). Before you guess, you have to know that no one has watched a video on this machine for a looonng time. I think the last attempt was The Blues Brothers. Erin and I started it right around this time of year around five years ago, and the movie that I thought she would laugh her head off to, turned out to be a few laughs with a lot of long boring yawns in between.
Anyway, back to the question: name the things (besides copious piles of dust) that you find behind the television when you pull it out.
From left to right:
- a Ritz cracker sleeve (believe me when I tell you this isn't the most surprising place I have ever found one of these waxed wonders. It was Davis's after school snack--34 crackers in each one--almost every afternoon after school for most of his life).
- a $10 gift card from Best Buy with the bonus that it has not expiration date and not fees
- a piece of Davis's junior year in high school ID card. Students have to buy a replacement card when lost or broken, so as pieces chipped off he would just punch a new hole and wear a smaller and smaller piece. This was left by the end of the year.
- a picture of Erin framed with craft sticks from when she still had her baby teeth. I'm guessing this is on a school field trip about a month after transplant in 2003.
- a long unfound Easter egg, with candy still intact.
- Walter's bumper sticker
I would also like to point out, that when I packed the loft bookshelves, I tried to do it in a systematic way, so that books in similar broad categories (classic fiction, theology and religion, joke books, etc would end up in the same box, so that when we eventually unpack the boxes our bookshelves will end up fairly organized.
Doing that naturally helps uncover duplicate copies. Of course, there are many reasons to own more than one copy of a book. It might be treasured. You might have a well-worn copy and a newer version. You may occasionally buy the same book twice on accident (this happens to me sometimes when I read a book series out of order). You could own a book and receive a duplicate gift copy.
You may can imagine other scenarios, but for the life of me, I can't explain how I ended up with three copies of. . . The Bobbsey Twins in the Country. I'm pretty sure the only time I ever read it, I checked it out of the library.
Teddy knows that a good supervisor is always on the job.
