The cold box bandit

The Cold Box Bandit.

The fridge had a bandit of sorts and required some extra measures to keep the contents safe. For most kids around three or four opening the fridge would be a feat of grander but not for this bandit. We would enter the kitchen to find him food in hand snaking away with fridge door wide and many of the contents haphazardly arranged about the floor. We lost many a gallon of milk to the mop and drain and looked for a viable solution to the problem. After much thinking it came to us that we could secure the fort from the bandit with a super long bungee cord attached strategically to the handle. This worked! Although it did make it somewhat tricky to get in to the fridge the bandit was now only to obtain a snack when requested. It made for some interesting looks from others when they would visit and find the bungee on the fridge. A few times people asked if the fridge was broken or something. No, we told them we have a fridge bandit. This fridge bandit enjoyed some of the oddest food combinations. Cold baked potato wrapped with a slice of bologna, cold chili con carne, hot dogs out of the package, cubes of butter, and so on. On the plus side there were lots of left-over’s that got taken care of. His odd eating has stayed with him to this day.

History has a way of repeating itself. Thinking that we had passed the bandit issue when we moved to a new place a few years later, BOOM! We had two of them now. This second one was eating as much as the first and as many of odd creations to say the least. The left-over’s disappeared quickly but soon we found much more appeared to become even more scares and spares. Over night the bungee cord was installed again. Seems to be a lesson here that no matter the age of the fridge a good bungee may very well be required to secure the fort from the bandits that shop for snacks. Although a few years have passed and the bungee is gone but the bandits have continued to shop the cold box for eats. Funny to think back now how a bungee cord could save the day. A life lesson to be learned here could be that sometimes it is the simple fixes that keep a safe and happy each day. So that brings up the question of how secure is your fort from the bandits of life?