Are we unpoor now?
I'm going for the full Bento box.
you actually have the box? ok mr moneybags.
i just eat off the floor
Actually it's just an empty, old tackle box I filled with ramen and some mixed frozen veggies. You can't even tell the difference.
bento is usually stainless steel. my tackle boxes were not.
You're thinking of your old lunchbox!
Tackle boxes were made of plastic.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126824655914?
Mine was very much like the one on eBay above.
and I would not be eating from that.
I'm just being obtuse. I also had a small steel tackle box as a basic kit which got "upgraded" to a stamped aluminum box with 2 plastic collapsing trays - a birthday gift from my grampa. That one had all the basics in it plus a few favourite lures and the tools (knife - a Rapala fish 'n filet naturally - needle nose pliers, scale) I used to keep that box and a fishing rod in my car all the time just behind the driver's seat. Back then, I never locked my vehicle... there was no need; people just didn't mess with your stuff. I went to my car early one morning which I had parked out behind my apartment building and saw that the doors were ajar and also the glovebox was open. My first thought was that my younger brother had come by to borrow something and I was pissed off that he would have left the doors ajar like that - could have killed my battery! I looked in the glovebox, didn't notice anything missing, closed it up and pulled closed the passenger door as well. I had to get to work so I didn't have time to give my brother shit. Then I reached for the seatbelt and realized something wasn't right. I turned to look in the back seat and my fishing rod was missing. "Ah! He came by to borrow my fishing gear", I thought, "Sweet! Fresh pickerel fillets for dinner tonight!" Then I wasn't so angry about the doors. I didn't even have time to go fishing at that time anyway. I had a 7:30 to 4 steady day job and a part-time job where I worked some weekdays from 4:30 to 11 and weekends... as much as they needed me - sometimes from 9am until 11pm. So if my little brother could get some use out of my gear, that was great; I was on a mission to pay off my student loan and save the down payment for a house. Anyway, sadly, there were no pickerel filets forthcoming because my brother hadn't come by to borrow my fishing gear. Somebody else had "borrowed" it. I would occasionally wander along the local creek checking out the fishermen's gear to see if I couldn't find my box. It was pretty distinctive because I had sprayed a mottled finish on it with some leftover 1974 Chevy midnight metallic blue touch up paint and some leftover candy apple red I had used when I refinished a neighbour's bicycle frame. It looked pretty cool imo
Sorry, I got a little nostalgic for the simpler times when cars didn't need to be locked let alone outfitted with proximity and intrusion alarms and kept in a locked garage with a surveillance system and then a GPS tracking device and remote shut off just in case all else fails; insert old an yelling at clouds.gif
Gentlemen, I see US$108,364? Nice. Maybe I'll sell 10,000 sats and see if I can find
I lived in NYC we had a solid amount of crime . I was robbed by a crack head that could not hand the 45 automatic still. That was in 1992 I had signed the contract to buy my house and was moving to Howell NJ in six weeks.
As the guy pointed the gun at me I thought this fool is going to kill me while my poor wife is sleeping in bed and does not even know I went to buy the Daily News and bagels for Sunday breakfast.
I OPENED my wallet showed him all the cash and gave it to him. MAYBE $50 bucks. He say my wedding band and my college ring took them and a brand new watch [timex but gold color]
HE LEFT me and I walked to my apartment. Happy he did not kill me or take the whole wallet.
We moved to Howell, NJ a month or two later. HOWELL was very crime free for decades. But it now has more crime and the cops dress in full armor which passes me off alot since we never had a cop get shot in 32 years.
Life is a bit harder but that is beyond my paygrade.
