(piggybacking)

On 11/6/2017 10:29 AM, Roy wrote:> On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at
9:35:29 PM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
>> I had an accident earlier that led to solving a couple of mysteries.
>>
>> I mentioned that I made Mrs. Grass soup for dinner. I have also mentioned in
>> the past, the horrible lazy Susan cupboards that I have. The one that I use
>> for canned soup/meat/chili/etc. has been weird for some time now. One day I
>> just couldn't turn it fully around and could figure out why. And now I know.
>>
A few years ago she couldn't figure out how to cut shelf paper to fit
the corner lazy susan cabinet. I remember people trying to explain how
to cut a pie-shape for the shelves. Even with diagrams she kept saying
she didn't understand it. I've had one of those lazy susan corner
cabinets in a kitchen. Loved it! But yes, sometimes things will fall
behind it. Not things that get left there for years, though.

>> In getting the box of soup, I accidentally knocked a can off the side of the
>> shelf and it flew towards the back corner to where I could barely see it.

Okay.

>> And in looking for it with a flashlight, I spotted a small red lid to one of
>> the Rubbermaid containers that Angela got me for Christmas a few years ago.
>> Since the lid was flat, it must have Frisbeed out of the draining rack or
>> something where it sat, inside and behind and under the edge of the shelf.
>> It was somehow stuck there and I accidently pushed it in to where I couldn't
>> see it at all. I think my moving the turntable back and forth repeatedly had
>> dislodged in to begin with. And then?
>>
And then a bunch of crap. Because of course the red Rubbermaid lid flew
off the dish draining rack and landed right in the back of the lazy
susan cabinet. Where it was lost for years.

>> I now have an assortment of cans on the kitchen floor that I will put back
>> after I finish eating, but way in the back, visible only when using a
>> flashlight

What the hell does this mean?

>> and making like a bendy worm did I discover the real problem.
>> Three plastic cups of pineapple, one loose, two in cardboard sleeve. Now
>> brown as they expired in 2009. Also a can of Fred Meyer kidney beans. When
>> did they switch from that brand? Some time ago I think. And some kind of
>> white beans. Some odd brand that I don't even remember buying.
>>
>> And now? Cupboard moves freely!
>
Good lord, woman. Maybe you should have looked in there before.

> Hopeless cause. How can any one person have so many "happenings" in one
> lifetime?
> ====
>
I don't understand it.

Jill