What''s In Your Bread Basket Today?

kelly1966 · Jul 6, 2016

really funny... this is most common in all household.. we all have this basket to pull out the missing.. bunnies.. or undies.. whatever you desire

padma0604 · Jul 6, 2016

Wow..that was wonderful meenasankaran! You made my day. I was smiling all through the read. 'wafer thin sarees and glass slippers??' Really !!! I am sure all of us will have something like your breadbasket where you can unearth almost anything!! Thanks for such a lovely, lively and hilarious writeup.

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We were watching a magic show on TV recently. The magician looked fierce in his all-black attire and was a stark contrast to the scantily-clad assistants surrounding him.

It reminded me of an Indian movie’s dream scene where the hero and the heroine close their eyes in their middle class homes separately and magically appear together in a snow-capped mountain breaking out an intense, calorie-burning dance and song number in the midst of heaps of snow. He, in denim jeans, sweater and boots and she, in a wafer-thin saree and glass slippers. I can’t help but feel pride that this world sees a woman as the stronger of the genders. Strong enough to purr and shake her naked hips in the freezing snow.

Anyway, coming back to the magic show, it was basically 4 assistants and 1 magician pulling weird things out of a box on that stage. And to watch this, you have to pay? What a heap of cow-dung! Next time you want to watch a magic show, just come over to my place and I’ll do it for free.

I have a bread basket in my kitchen. It has never been known to contain just bread any day. It routinely houses missing homework assignments, insurance papers, car keys, sunglasses, coconut oil, candles for birthday cakes, highlighters, hair dryer, stamp sheets, staplers and Bluetooth headphones, among other items.

I don’t know how you go about searching for missing items in your home. Our family, for a long time, had relied on a plan filled with theatrical effects. It included a systematic search from room to room, starting from the bedroom all the way to the refrigerator in the kitchen. If you had ever heard the muffled mutterings and the desperate wailings mixed in with the sounds of a room being tossed, you would have known that there was a search in progress at my home. Those were the days when we totally believed that drama was the answer to life’s everyday pesky problems.

Today, we just dive for the kitchen basket first because more often than not, we find what we are looking for in there. I once pulled out a couple of laundered underwear items on a desperate Monday morning from this basket.

Someone wise once said that we are surrounded by magic every day and have to only look to find it. I may never pull out a bunny from my basket but I think that a pair of clean underwear on a school day beats a bunny hands down.

What have you pulled out of your basket recently?
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meenasankaran · Jul 6, 2016

Dear @Amica - Kitchen basket, junk drawer.....what's in a name, my friend? Poteto or potAto, it tastes yummy either way, right? So glad you enjoyed the post Amica.

meenasankaran · Jul 6, 2016

Dear GG,

How very astute you are! We almost always search for bread in that basket but how did you know?

//coming to the bollywood scene - we are a very conservative culture, we don't believe in male strip teasing even in dream sequences //

How very noble GG! Makes my heart swell in pride at our rich cultural heritage.

jskls · Jul 6, 2016

Had a good laugh reading yours... Magic show, heroine in the snow, bread basket and finding things. remembered of recent tamil movie where they try to find something by rubbing black dye to betel leaf .... Funny Meena!

Recently lost an activity tracker charger and I am sure I brought it back home from my travel... not sure if I left it in the Bread & Breakfast Inn with their bread basket. Losing things is very common in my household but the things that we will never find it back. Maybe someday when these kids move out and we downsize we will find all the hidden treasures that will find a place in a museum. Since it is summer and school is off we are at peace not losing a lot ...

Rihana · Jul 6, 2016

meenasankaran said: ↑

What have you pulled out of your basket recently?
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Bread basket is such a better term than junk draw.

Over time, the junk draw in m kitchen has cloned itself, and the one next to it is also a junk draw -a sister concern, or a cottage industry. One is mine and the other 'theirs'. From mine, whenever I am desperately searching for something, usually with someone waiting on the phone, I end up with the scrap of paper that has in childish scrawl - 'Get candy here. Boo!' A note the child made and pasted on the window, many many Halloweens ago when there was a lull in the trick-o-treaters ringing the bell.

Coming back to the question - recently I've found ONE pencil that was not blunt, and a library card that I thought was lost.

meenasankaran · Jul 7, 2016

Dear viji aunty,

It is always a pleasure to see you. More so when you bring news of a nomination. Many thanks for your kind words and the good news aunty.

meenasankaran · Jul 7, 2016

Dear kaniths,

Thanks for that lovely feedback. I guess every household is equipped with its own special 'black hole' and I am very sure that there is a colorful history behind every one of them. Loved getting to know your backpack today.

Since we are talking about NASA and black holes, how do you scientifically explain a bread basket, built to hold 2 loafs of bread, containing half of my family's collective belongings? Is there anything in quantum physics to explain this mystery?

meenasankaran · Jul 7, 2016

Dear Agatha83,

Like you, I am forever looking for my missing brain. While my bread basket has always spit out most of what I need, the missing brain remains steadfastly unfound (is this even a word?). My mother tells me that if we find everything we are looking for easily, we won't ever think about God. My missing brain, according to this theory, reinstates my faith in the Supreme power.

Glad you found your reading glasses and comb. Thanks for stopping by, dear Agatha.