An aluminum lunch box, how many childhood memories

The first day of school, my mother in addition to buy me a red bag, but also bought an aluminum lunch box, small, rectangular, lunch box lid has a raised a small panda, is chewing bamboo. The red bag broke after a year, and that little aluminum lunch box accompanied me through six years of elementary school, three years of middle school, and part of my high school life.

Now that lunch box has long been discarded, life is better, people's health consciousness is also improving, have abandoned the home of aluminum pots, aluminum pots, aluminum lunch boxes. Instead of using stainless steel, so I can no longer find accompanied by my more than 10 years of aluminum lunch box, but its appearance has been y imprinted in the mind, how can not be forgotten.

At that time, at least half of the children in the class had to bring a lunch box, large and small aluminum lunch boxes in the mother's sewing in a small cloth bag, the morning into the classroom, out of the lunch box, placed in the class podium in the cage, after the morning reading, the class is responsible for the day on duty of the two students to contain the lunch box of the iron cage to carry to the canteen, into the steamer trunk, to remember the location of their own class Oh, or else at noon, students of the class will be a hundred-meter sprint speed to lift their own class lunch cage, can not remember the location, can not find the lunch cage can be embarrassing, dozens of people in the class are starving to feed it.

The rice steamer box is particularly high, particularly large, for us in elementary school is simply a huge machine full of majesty and grandeur. Lower grades students are not tall enough, to be a little earlier to the rice cage to the kitchen, so you can pick a better position, otherwise waiting for the rice, steaming, can not reach but also step on the ladder to lift the heavy rice cage, is really a more dangerous thing. If we were to change now, I think many parents may let their children to carry the rice cage into the mess room this thing full of worry, issued an objection, but in those days, all schools do this, we all bring lunch boxes, this matter is not a matter, and the youngest we never think this is very dangerous, just think this is what we should do, just like a good study, listen to the lecture in class as is so do not need to question! I don't think it's a good idea.

Then to ensure that their lunchboxes into the dining room is absolutely the top priority of the school, once late did not catch up with the lunch box into the class lunch cage, as soon as possible, you have to send their own lunch box into the dining room, this time the big steamer box has been closed, it does not matter, put the lunch box on the top of the steamer box can still be penetrated, but we must clearly remember their own lunch box model and location, or else at noon to take the wrong lunch box to eat the wrong meal is a I have led our class in the past. I have taken our students from class to class to look for lunchboxes, and found that they had eaten half of their meals.

In the summer, when it's hot, the leftovers in the lunchboxes get sour, and the classroom is filled with the smell of rotting food, which is just as normal for us as it is for the rest of the world.

In our elementary school, my class circulated such a story, and then the reunion time we also took out to say, a burst of laughter. There was a confused boy in the second class of six years who brought his lunch box to dinner, but forgot to take it home and shoved it into his desk. This lunchbox in the desk stayed for half a semester, until the summer classroom always smelled bad, how to find the source can not be found. It wasn't until a swarm of maggots crawled out of his desk one day that it occurred to him that there had been an uneaten lunchbox in there for months. The whole class went crazy, especially the girls, who scattered in fear away from his desk. The maggot was said to have taken over a month to catch before it was eradicated.

Afterward, we always like to rehash this matter at the dinner table, so that even the rice can not eat, but still mention, this side said ah too disgusting don't talk about it, the other side of the child is happy, reminiscent of the joy of childhood.

(Reprinted from: I am a yam)