"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton@verizon.not> wrote

> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:01 +0200:

> C> <Cathy sighs> Getting older is not as much fun as I thought
> C> it would be.

> One of the more unpleasant things is accidentally not putting something in
> the freezer but in the back of a cupboard. The initial bad smell of
> warning, the panic and then the clean up are not life's great moments,
> especially if meat is uncooked :-)

Oh, what a memory. Once, long ago and far away, my ex and I
lived in an apartment complex next to a municiple softball field.
We got a permit to use it for a day and invited a bunch of friends
for a softball party. That sets up the scenario, lots of people in and
out of my apartment moving food around.

Days later, what is that smell. Next day, what is that horrible smell?
Did everything I could think of to clean away the stench.

Then my ex moved a stack of bowls on top of the refrigerator.
In the middle of this nest of bowls, a raw steak. A decomposing
steak. Gag! But, hey, someone had made room in the freezer for
those leftover hotdogs!

nancy