The Proper Place for Ice Cream

[Hotfoot]

Dear Friend,

I have known you for several years now, and I know you have run across this situation before. Your excuse for having extremely poor memory, which you commonly use, should not apply here. If it does, you may want to get tested for Early Onset Alzheimer's.

I say this somewhat out of love, but also because you just ruined two quarts of delicious, tasty ice cream that we had just bought five minutes prior from the shop down the road. You did so by walking past my refrigerator and placing the bag, which contained only ice cream, the only thing we bought on this trip, not in the freezer, as I had expected you would do, but rather on the counter, where it sat for the next five hours because I had assumed you had done this simple task.

You are twenty-nine years old, a child two decades your lesser knows that ice cream must go into the freezer as soon as possible!

Very few things drive me mad. I take the slings and arrows of my students, the rocks thrown by young toughs near my job, all in stride.

But you, sir, you took from me my delicious midnight treat, one I had been looking forward to, and while even that is muted by the sweet taste of my home-made jerky, I am so incensed at the mindlessness of your ice creamation that I cannot sleep.

BECAUSE YOU HAD TO WALK PAST THE FREEZER TO PUT IT ON THE COUNTER! It wasn't even around the corner, it looks straight at you as you enter the kitchen!

[Becks]

I see that I'm going to have to round up a posse to take care of this.

What a waste.

[froglet]

Something similar happened to me when I was 7 or so. My parents had gotten this ice-cream cake, and told me (the youngest in the family) to put it away in the freezer. This was 1988 or something, so no such thing as bottom-mount freezers yet, and while I was tall for my age and could reach the freezer, I wasn't old enough to rearrange the freezer, so I called out to my parents in the living room that it wouldn't fit, and as far as I recall, they said they'd take care of it. They were ensconced in the TV at the time, so I figured they'd get it at the next commercial, went and joined them and forgot about it. And so did they. Until one goes into the kitchen and I get yelled at for not having put it away and its now all melted on the floor.

It was a really fricken good cake too, at least thats how I remember it, the cake and the story. I was very young at the time.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

This, sadly, is a common occurrance at the Litter Box with my co-irkers. . .

Doesn't matter which manager closes at night - the front end people don't half clean up or put away the returns. Most of them don't have the sense to put the ice cream in the *gasp* ice cream freezer - they'll set it in the floor of the dairy cooler and by the time Grumpy gets in the next day, he's got melted ice cream all over part of the concrete floor.

We've even put up signs on both the dairy cooler and ice cream freezer. It worked for maybe 2 days, then it was back to the same-old.

[thehippie777]

Really sounds like this person has never exercised their memory & just let it go bye bye. ADD much? I worry for this person, being 29, that they won't be able to live on their own at 40. Old folks home, here they come. I had a roommate who was 35 and would always have his mind on video games... the things he forgot!!!!

[Dreamstalker]

We've even put up signs on both the dairy cooler and ice cream freezer. It worked for maybe 2 days, then it was back to the same-old.

That happened at the Repair Shop From Hades. When I started there, I asked the owner to mark incoming machines a certain way (sticky note with contact info and what needs to be done firmly attached to the machine, not rocket surgery by any means).

After a moderate CF involving a "master list" and matching number papers on the computers (placed on top of the case so they got lost), I reiterated my request. Not hard. That worked for all of one week, then it was back to before.