My dumbest was not having American money when we got off the airplane in LAX

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

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...

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.

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 . . .

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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