Tonight was an unexpected passing of a friend who has seen us through a lot. It went off to law school with Cathy, returned to Central Florida three years later, moved in to our first apartment with us a newlyweds and helped us with Benjamin's meals. Yes I'm getting sentimental over our restaurant-sized roll of Reynold's saran wrap.
It was originally purchased by Cathy's folks along with a lot of other apartment supplies in August 1997 when she left for Pitt. It has been moved all over with us and finished it's last job tonight wrapping some thawed chicken to be cooked later this week.
If you are reading this and thinking to yourself, "Why is Chris wasting a blog entry on saran wrap?" Well then you aren't one in on the running joke.
Cathy and I had our doubts if we'd ever finish the roll. It just kept giving and giving platic goodness to out leftovers. We wrapped Thanksgiving turkey, bowls of salads, and even some rice cereal when Benjamin was just learning to eat solids. For the Pitt crew as well as our folks they know what we're talking about. It got to be like a member of the family because it was always at our house in good times and bad. Holidays, weekends it didn't matter Reynolds was always there.
So tonight I say thank you for your 12 years of service. And I wonder, "My god how much leftovers does a restaurant have to need this type of roll?"
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