03 March 2004 ~ a free disease in every pack

Cereal seems to have a shelf-life that is a little unnatural, even if it is for flakes of cardboard. You can imagine how unsettling it is, therefore, when you arrive in a new office and, trying to fit into a new kitchen used by cretins, find half used boxes of cereal that must have been owned by those fortunate enough to have been fired (or in one case unfortunate enough to be moved to the accounts department).

A quick check under the dust and I see the dates of Mar 2004, Jul 2003 and, unfortunately, Oct 2002.

What's worse is when I open the drawer looking for a spoon and find a cleverly concealed box of Corn Flakes that have a date of 2000 on them - which considering that they have the abnormal shelf life of two years, means they were purchased and opened sometime in 1998 - that's a whole six years ago now.

I had thought about rummaging through these boxes to see if they still contained toys, but the idea of putting my hand into a box that holds strange food that doesn't get moldy and finding the 'toy' to be some disgruntled newage spider that gave up his carnivorous lifestyle almost a year ago, frankly, isn't too appealing.

Although the evil side of me would like to take said spider and squish it into the middle of one of the wheat bites with raisins that someone has just opened...