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What's in your refrigerator?

© Stacy Hinkle

Like all other women in today's world, when I open up my refrigerator I am bound to find rotting meat and moldy cheese while looking for something for dinner. Not always what people want to see when they are thinking about eating, but like many others, I have came to hold my breath and keep looking. Besides dinner, there are more things to a women. We have to deal with the rat race, the rotting meat in our lives, and the string cheese in all of us.

What keeps us going every day? Humor, of course! As the old saying goes: Laughter is the best medicine. I encourage every women to keep a couple of gallons (or more) stored in their medicine cabinet or, if you think it safe enough, in you refrigerator. Humor is around us everywhere, you just have to look.

As in articles before, you have heard some funny stories, but here are a few more for you. Now for me -- I can find humor in more places then just my kids. I have a hard time getting my husband to put laundry in the hamper, help with the dishes, or even to take the trash out without being asked. One afternoon, I walked in the kitchen to find him standing at the sink. Shocked, I had to ask what he was doing. He turned saying "I am rinsing my dishes off so then it's not so hard for you to wash the dishes." I just smiled and thanked him.

Sometimes, I can even find humor at work. I used to work in a nursing home as a nursing assistant. Working mornings, I help people get up and get dressed. I was helping a lady put on her socks, which were special socks that have a hole in the end of them for her toes to stick out. She asked me what they were and I told her they were her socks. She questioned me about the holes and I replied with how the holes are supposed to be there. She just gave me a strange look, put her hands on her hips, and said "You bought them on sale didn't you?" That was the highlight of my day.

One day, I was walking through the dinning room where everyone was eating. I passed a table of ladies who were enjoying their salads. One of them looked up at the rest of the table and said "Eating lettuce wasn't this noisy before dentures." I giggled out loud at that one.

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