Wednesday, September 10, 2008

disturbing new discoveries.

as we all know, i don't have any children and i don't spend very much time with any children, so forgive me if everyone else has been aware of this unsettling trend and we're just waking up to it...

but what happened to lunch boxes?!?!

i'm on a rabid hunt for a thermos - an old-school, plastic, unscrew-the-lid-and-flip-the-spout-up, laden-with-cartoon-characters, show-off-to-all-your-classmates thermos - and figured i could just pop into any old department-type store with a back-to-school section and purchase a lunch box and find my thermos inside. i honestly thought my biggest issue was that i wouldn't like the character selection and have to settle for stupid dora the explorer (top choice? spongebob). but no dice. not even close.

they don't even call them lunch boxes anymore - lunch bags, lunch kits, even lunch totes. and even somewhere that still does use the beloved old term for them - the website lunchboxes.com - barely sells any that come with a thermos inside. many do, however, come with a 'can pouch'. what the hell?! no wonder kids are so obese - they have a soda holster built right on to their school accessories.

i'm finding this all seriously distressing. if anyone comes across a spare thermos in their parents' attic, please send it our way.


5 comments:

Tim said...

Lunch bags!? Isn't that a little environmentally unfriendly?!

missyandchrissy said...

right? and don't even get us started on the environmental ramifications of using that 'can holder' instead of refilling your thermos! stupid polluting youth of today...

Tim said...

Clearly our generation was much more forward-thinking in regards to the environment.

(Ignoring the fact that many of our contemporaries now drive Hummers and Range Rovers…)

inthemiddle said...

what was your very first lunch box? mine was a purple my little pony one.

missyandchrissy said...

i had a blue MLP one at some point! i'm thinking my first might have been a metal strawberry shortcake one.