What To Stock In Your Bomb Shelter's Pantry

[dr_pretentious]

We're home from a family reunion in the Adirondacks. One night, when I was up until all hours with my cousins and sister, and some of us were a sheet or two to the wind, my sister suddenly started inspecting the print on the bag of chips we were passing around.

"Sarah, when do these chips expire?"

It wasn't her dyslexia tricking her, either. Anybody might have looked at an expiration date of SEP3011 and seen Thousand Year Chips. Yeah, I know what the manufacturer must have intended, but it amused us plenty.

Comments

[slackerstalker.livejournal.com]

Hi Sarah. I'm in Northern New York packing up/ throwing away old papers at my parents' barn-house north of Syracuse. I just created a folder for your poetry that I kept from our time at Vassar. I remember fondly visiting you at your family cabin in the Adirondacks. *hugs*

[welshbard.livejournal.com]

Thousand Year Chips is better than Thousand Year Guacamole!

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how long peanut butter would last...and how much we would need for my peanut loving kids to survive.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I still have a folder of your poems, too. And that photo of you on the snow-horse in Russia is magnetized to my fridge. I keep meaning to get a copy made for you.

Your reminiscences about growing up in your tiny town resonate so much for me. Forestport is even tinier, and it's the place my parents always knew they could retreat to. Retreating there for a week or a summer is a fine thing. I feel a very deep connection with Forestport--when eventually I'm buried, it will be in the family plot--but I am so grateful I didn't have to spend my adolescence there.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. That makes me want to clean out my fridge. I think I may have some aspiring Thousand Year Guacamole in there.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Peanut butter's a pretty good bet for emergency rations, actually. It's what food drives for the homeless ask for.