stacking

so today i was going to use my george foreman grill and i was looking for the drip pan that goes under the front lip to catch the grease.  i have two of them, saved one from a grill that i tossed after years of service, so even tho one was in the sink to be washed i knew i had another one lurking in the kitchen.

forgive me as i have a flashback, they work in the movies, hope it works here.  when i was growing up my father was a pretty lazy guy.  i still havent figured out how his mind works and am glad actually.  i remember opening the refrigerator to look for something and seeing this strange stack of tupperwared leftovers in a leaning tower that could only rival the pisa!  see, my father only believed in using the middle of the top shelf for EVERYTHING!  not only is that an issue but he also had a problem stacking items.  you see, depending on how they migrated to the refrigerator the smallest item could very well be on the bottom or middle of the stack.  his stacks were never largest on the bottom and decreasing in size going up until the smallest is on top.  oh no.  he did not hold to any conventions, ever, whatsoever.  if he had a small container, in it went, if he then had a big container, in it went on top of the small one and so on in the order of putting it into the fridge, not size!

well, my mother was one for a place for everything and everything in its place according to size with the largest on the bottom and continuing up in decreasing size until the top item was the smallest.  rebel!  so, it did not sit well with her when she opened the refrigerator and saw one of dad's leaning towers of leftovers.  she used to curse him and wonder why he couldnt figure it out and how if he had a 50/50 chance of getting it right he got it wrong every time.  i also had to shake my head in wonderment and frown.

fast forward too many years to admit and i cant find that damn drip pan.  i am scouring the kitchen when i look over to the table with the grill on it, it has to be there!  finally i turn to my leaning tower of miscellaneous and there, tucked under the box of granola bars but before the much smaller box of flavored water packets, is that damn drip pan!  i, like my father, in a bad case of i will deal with it later, had created a tower of large box on top of small box with a drip pan in between!  damn.