Remember that Y2K scare back in 2000? I found a package of
those Oriental noodles hiding in the back corner of my pantry the other day and
it brought back all those memories in a rush.
On the day after the millennium began we had computers that
worked, running water and the toilet paper had not reverted back to a Sears and
Roebuck catalog. The car sitting in the driveway was still a vehicle and had
not turned into a horse and buggy. Yes, sir, we could go down in the history
books as survivors.
Of course there were a few things we had to take care of
before the History Channel came calling for an interview. I had to find the
receipt for 10,000 packages of those Oriental noodles. The way I figured it was
that we would never starve with that much dried up square noodles in the house.
I could boil water over an open fire in the back yard, squirt a little catsup
in one bowl of noodles and it would be spaghetti; drizzle some blackberry jelly
over another bowl full and it would be cobbler for dessert, and we could always
cube up some Spam and call it a casserole.
Ohhh, Spam! I had to look through recipes and recipes (thank
goodness the computer had not crashed) to figure out what to do with four cases
of the stuff. Fried with some onions and green peppers, it wasn’t too bad with
a side dish of those instant mashed potatoes. I only had about twenty bags of
those and they ran out before the Spam did.
Then there was the matter of 50 cans of pork and beans that
had a no return policy on them, either.
But I did pass up the opportunity to order a Claymore mine
for the backyard. The tabloid said the aliens were waiting to attack until
right after midnight . Seemed to be a
bit much in those pre-zombie and pre-walking dead days so I just dug a bunch of
holes in the back yard and tossed in empty soup cans. I coated the back steps
with bacon drippings in case they made it through the yard without breaking a
leg. When we found out that we’d survived the big Y2K scare, I didn’t have to
disarm the mines and the local tom cats had a party to lick all the bacon
grease off the stairs.
I had to cancel my subscription to Stockpilers Quarterly,
but I got to keep the manual can opener, so it wasn’t a big loss.
The Oriental noodles that had an expiration date of April,
2001 reminded me of my radical cousin. He took a whole bunch of rebels into an
underground bunk house somewhere out in the Arizona
I found the phone under a pile of shoes in the floor of my
closet and called the coded number. He answered right away and made me go
through a whole line of code before he’d believe it was me. I told him I was
sorry that I’d forgotten about him but he laughed and said that he’d been out
of the bunker for fourteen years. He’d only stayed down there until he ran out
of Spam and noodles.
So we are survivors! Never forget.
Oh my that's hilarious. Watching the news hear lately makes it feel like we may have to rely on our survival skills again. It's scary what our country is becoming. I'll remember the ramen noodles and pork & beans. We won't starve and will have plenty of gas!
ReplyDeleteOh god that was so hysterical... I did not go that far... I just made sure I went to the bank the day before, in case the banks had to shut down.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the best chuckle of the morning.