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ed Sep 5th, 2003 01:04 PM

L:ittle things that you forgot to do but should have
 
My dumbest was not having American money when we got off the airplane in LAX:-] :B

ira Sep 5th, 2003 01:21 PM

Yeah,
That happens to a lot of tourists. They think we have ATMs all over the place.

FainaAgain Sep 5th, 2003 01:40 PM

I remembered an old joke:

a husband tells his wife: too bad we didn't take our piano with us.

wife: Piano??? Are you insane? Why piano???

husband: this is where I left our plane tickets...

nancy Sep 5th, 2003 03:28 PM

So far have had American money on return, but aren't there ATMs at the airports just in case?

FainaAgain: that was hilarious; hadn't heard it before.

Anonymous Sep 5th, 2003 03:59 PM

I'll never forget the time we remembered to do a refrigerator purge the night before we left, but forgot about the bananas in the fruit bowl . . .

jody Sep 5th, 2003 04:01 PM

YUCK..or the 1 lone bruised potato in the bin..after 3 weeks ..you don't want to know what that smelled like!

Patrick Sep 5th, 2003 04:12 PM

I can top that. Have you ever seen 5 month old lettuce???

jody Sep 5th, 2003 04:32 PM

I really don't think I want to!!

When we had a power outage from a hurricane a few years ago..we took everything out of the freezer and took it to a friends, who had power..all except nuts and such! Who knew there was a small package of bait shrimp there! We almost had to evacuate the house!

Calamari Sep 5th, 2003 09:24 PM

My top one would have to be when my boyfriend and I cleaned out our little refridgerator in our flat in London. We unplugged it before we left and closed the door. We went on our two week boat trip in the South of France. When we got home the tiny "freezer" compartment had melted (we did not even think to defrost it) and so much mold had grown inside of the fridge that it actually pushed the refridgerator door open. Streams of mold were on the kitchen floor and it smelled as though several cats had snuck in and desided to die in our flat.

jmv Sep 6th, 2003 08:01 AM

I have the reverse problem. I clean every speck of food out of the frig and just about the whole house, arrive home too tired to go grocery shopping and never remember to have just something canned or frozen available that we can eat when we get back home.

stever Sep 6th, 2003 11:17 AM

Left for our honeymoon and put the top part of the wedding cake in the freezer to be eaten on our 1rst anniv. Of course there was a power outtage for 3 days and when we got back everything went bad. Oh well, that marriage ended 3 years later. My second wedding we didn't have a wedding cake! Just nice desserts and we didn't freeze any of course, so no chance for bad luck.

Steve
USA


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