The Case of the Half-Eaten Dinner

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The Case of the Half-Eaten Dinner

It was a dark, dreary night.  I had walked to the upstairs refrigerator at school to retrieve my supper and warm it up.  The upstairs was empty.  And quiet.  Perhaps too quiet...

All four plastic containers were still inside my plastic bag, but only one still had food.  I reached in for the container that still had food and opened the lid to place it in the microwave when suddenly...

I noticed that half of the food was (*gasp*) gone!  I searched around high and low for the culprit, but alas... No one was to be found.

I walked back downstairs and proceeded to tell my study group about the nasty rat that had taken my dinner out of my bag in the refrigerator and eaten half of my lunch (like I wouldn't notice).

What a scumbag...

So after I left school, I called my mom.  I was going on and on about this dirty, nasty, shabby, filthy, disgusting creature that took HALF of my lunch (not even all of it, like they started eating it and determined it was gross and stopped eating it...  And I know for a fact that it was not gross because I made it myself with tomato juice that my mama canned...).

Then my mom, ever so quietly asks...  "That wouldn't be the container that I ate half of the other night for dinner, would it?"

Ummm...  WHAT???

That's right, folks.  I had stayed at my mom and dad's house on Sunday night because John was gone to one of the Carolinas for some training something or other.  She was making fried chicken legs for supper, and we don't eat fried chicken legs.  So I brought some leftover macaroni and tomato for us to eat.  But apparently, she got the container out of the bag I was bringing to school for Monday and Tuesday's lunch and dinner instead of eating out of the container I had brought specifically for her.

The moral of this story is...  When you are calling someone a good-for-nothing, low down, dirty, trashy, filthy, nasty, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, shabby, disgusting scumbag...  You had probably better check and make sure that it isn't your mom.