On my drive home from work in the afternoon I’ve been seeing the same group of five construction workers ending their day. They’re walking to their own cars, all of them still wearing orange vests, and all five carrying small lunch coolers. I always wonder what was packed in their cooler that day. I imagine meatloaf and ketchup sandwiches or maybe ham on white bread with mayonnaise and a bag of chips. Maybe Tupperware filled with leftovers from last night’s dinner or a long, slim piece of cold pizza wrapped in tin foil. I love packed lunches. The anticipation! The joy of seeing a sandwich snug inside a Ziploc bag! I miss the grade school lunch hour when I 
walked down the hallway tightly holding two dimes that would buy a small carton of milk from the milk wagon. (I know that makes me sound like a pioneer – I wasn’t – but I swear, my grade school did have a milk wagon.) The Husband is not so big on the packed lunch. He thinks it's sad, and I understand why. A half-squashed paper bag with a flap folded down. The sandwich bread that sometimes gets soggy. Knowing that your freedom from work will be over in 30 short minutes.
But what if you had a shiny, metal lunchbox? Something with a nifty little handle and three different compartments? A friend
brought such a thing back from India recently and although I don’t think it’s meant to be a lunch box, that’s the first thing I thought of when I saw it. This little lunchbox would make you the envy of lunch room. This week, plan ahead one night and pack yourself a lunch. Don’t scrimp - make it hearty. Pack yourself a lunch so good that your co-workers might actually consider negotiating a trade. Your homemade salad with fresh chicken and blue cheese in exchange
for the gut-bomb burrito they bought across the street? Or perhaps your large square of leftover lasagna for their boring old bagel? Yeah, right.
If you really want to make ‘em jealous, take my cue and bring the lunch box back into your life. It feels good to swing a lunchbox by your side. Makes me feel like skipping.
3 comments:
Hi Jenny,
I know this has nothing to do with this post, but I was recently in Manhattan and I went to a great place to eat called Freemans Alley, they make two fantastic drinks one is the french 75 and the other is the rum buck. I found a recipe on the web, but I could use your help in perfecting these drinks...on that note, would you be interested in working on perfecting these drinks our band.
We are planning to record in Memphis at the end of april and I would love to serve up these drinks in the studio.
Thanks for the help,
Signed
Aaron Lindstrom http://www.thestrums.com
http://www.thestrums.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/thestrumsus
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