Lasting effects

[aadler]

Some long time ago — I’m thinking 1973, though it might possibly have been the year before — I was working a summer job. I don’t remember anything about it, except the single thing that prompted this post: in one work area, I found maybe a dozen empty little plastic cases, which had held rolls of electrical tape. I gathered them up and took them home, because it seemed to me that small containers with lids might come in handy.

They did. I never got a huge amount of use out of them, but there were uses, and they kept being useful. I have two out right now (one holding Rosary paraphernalia, one with a compact sewing kit), and doubtless others stuck away with other little things I’ll wind up needing. Minor stuff, trivial stuff …

… but these little trivial bits of occasional usefulness have been going on for nearly fifty years now. At this point, they’ve been in my life longer than anything except my brothers. Just not-quite-a-dozen plastic cases, with a completely ridiculous level of staying power.

I couldn’t say what that might mean, other than that you just never know.