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What''s In Your Bread Basket Today?

Discussion in 'Snippets of Life (Non-Fiction)' started by meenasankaran, Jul 6, 2016.

  1. meenasankaran

    meenasankaran Platinum IL'ite

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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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    Amica IL Hall of Fame

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    :lol: I like your brand of magic. :thumbsup:

    :hmmm: No kitchen basket here, but we do have a junk drawer. It holds everything except the one thing you desperately need right that second. :facepalm:

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    ha ha ha a safe vault/laundry basket it is and no more a bread basket :)

    just try recollecting - earlier were you all searching for the bread, probably so :)

    coming to the bollywood scene - we are a very conservative culture, we don't believe in male strip teasing even in dream sequences :):):)
     
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    iyerviji Finest Post Winner

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    As usual a humerous write up and as usual it has gone to Finest post , nominated by my dear @satchitananda
     
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    I think that has to be my backpack... Treated more like a waste bin though! :eek: No surprises if NASA might one day in future want to dump its space junks in there too! :facepalm: I don't bother to clean it up even once. I think my little nephew takes it for granted as a 'black hole' and throws his toys in there hoping he would never see them again! Too smart but what he doesn't get is, this 'waste bin backpack' of mine is the first place my sister will look for anytime, or my family for that matter, if any stuff has to be found in a jiffy second! :yum:
     
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    Dear Meena,

    Humorous write up. I am always in search of my rusted brain which I feel have lost it long before marriage. The other two things are my reading glasses and my comb, which I always find them, perched right on the top of my head and get to know about them by having a look at the mirror.

    Agatha83
     
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    What a magical post!
    Unfortunately we do not have any ONE place to look for things.
    Are you willing to sell your basket? :hollering:
     
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    Superb. Laughed all the way and even began to plan. Should I keep a basket in the kitchen and remember to store everything that I am likely to forget where I had stored?

    Regarding the Hollywood dance scene, I too have often wondered why the hero is clad in warm clothes and the heroine wears so little. I can't recall such females in magic shows though. From what you say, one doesn't need it to snow for the women to emerge in negligé. But I may not have been observing them attentively, being more engrossed in the magic. But now that you have drawn our attention to these ladies, I will surely keep my eyes open.

    Undergarments vs. bunny. Who would ever doubt which is more important? But I am thinking now. Suppose the magician began to pull out women's undergarments from that magic cylinder, instead of bunnies, would Women's Rights object? Poor magician. Perhaps he can pull out men's briefs. Women's Rights will object to such profanity as well I suspect.

    In reply to your question, I have not yet found out what I am desperately searching for today. How do I prevent battery drain on my android smartphone. Google's Doze Android appears to be some sort of a solution. I am not yet convinced. Let me know if your kitchen box is hiding the solution to my problem.

    Lovely, clean and humorous thread. I hope you win the FP for July!!

    Regards.

    oj



     
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    Hey Meena, I just emptied out my bread basket looking for my brains in there. Sad to say, I didn't find them. Could you please check if they have taken off from here and virtually landed up in yours?
     
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    I my home nothing is really lost. and the term "it is really safe" i means somethijg has performed the disappearing act but is bound to be seen sooner or later. Thus I once discovered couple of dirty undergarments ffrom a pile of newspapers I had kept for selling to the guy who buys old newspapers. If that guy had taken the undies away it would have bee almost a lost fortune . These undies really cost a fortune, We really pay through our noses for them.
     
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