My wife is not one to hold a grudge … usually.
The little toaster that couldn’t. The Newnan Times-Herald. My wife is not one to hold a grudge usually. I mean, she’s spent more than half her life with me at this point, so she must be a forgiving soul. In short, she is not particularly persnickety. Be in the know the moment news happens.
I mean, she’s spent more than half her life with me at this point, so she must be a forgiving soul. In short, she is not particularly persnickety.
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We didn’t want history repeating itself so we looked for a toaster that was a little more upscale and easier to clean. Enter the Black & Decker TR1256B 850 Watt 2 slice toaster with bagel function and removable crumb tray. A removable crumb tray so you have no excuse to let things begin to collect in the bottom. Greek meaning sound. To lose water or moisture; to become dry. Related to electricity that is made from the energy of falling water. An upright pipe with a spout, nozzle, or other outlet, usually in the street, for drawing water from a main pipe, especially for fighting fires.
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There are two occasions on which I can remember her being mad and staying mad. With a third honorable mention.
The honorable mention is the day she left for work and came home to a 1968 Ford pickup truck sitting in the driveway. I’d purchased the truck that day without telling her.
For a few minutes after her arrival, I thought I was going to be sleeping in that truck for the foreseeable future, but I wiggled my way out of it.
I did end up selling it a year or two later. She brought up the point that in order to have an older vehicle like that, you had to either have money to have it worked on or the knowledge and tools to work on it yourself.
I had neither, and coupled with the fact that I couldn’t drive it up the driveway without it going dead, I sadly was forced to sell it.
The first grudge she held against me was when I let our daughter open a Cambodian Barbie and play with it. What can I say? Daughter wants to play with a toy, daughter gets to play with the toy.
I made up for that in December when I found her a new, unopened Cambodian Barbie for her birthday. That unboxed gem has a place of prominence in our living room and is safe from children’s hands. Unless I ever have a granddaughter who asks to open it and play with it, of course.
The second grudge she held against poor ol’ innocent me is the time I bought a toaster for our house. That’s not a huge deal, one would think. But my wife has a disdain for toasters that I was previously unaware of.
To her, a toaster does one thing and one thing only, and therefore it has no place in her kitchen. She can make toast just fine on a George Foreman grill.
She hasn’t thrown the toaster out yet, but I do think it’s buried somewhere very deep in one of our kitchen cabinets. It does not take up any space on a counter, nor do I believe it ever will.
Next time you’re down at the house, ask her for some toast. You’ll get a five-minute diatribe about the “single-use appliance” waste of money I just had to have.
Since I began writing this column, I’ve recalled a third grudge she has against me. But that deserves a column all its own.
If you’re ever down at the house, please don’t ask about the Fourth of July fireworks in Washington, D.C. about 20 years ago. She’s not on any blood pressure medication, and I’d just as soon it stays that way. Cisco file sharing.
Toby Nix is a local writer, guitarist and investigator with the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office. He is the author of two books, “Columns I Wrote” and “A Book I Wrote.” He can be reached at tobynix@yahoo.com .
The toaster makes it up Baldy with Scouts from Crew 615-BB1. Photo courtesy of @philmonttoaster on Instagram.
Post box singapore. Philmont is, without a doubt, a challenge.
The days are long and grueling, and morale can be an issue for even the most seasoned of crews. Enter the toaster.
The Little Toaster That Could Movie
It’s not the most traditional of mascots, but the cheap Walmart-brand toaster plastered with stickers and bedazzled on every edge helped crew 615-BB1 out of Crawfordsville, Indiana, push through their trek. From Hell’s Fire Canyon to the top of Baldy, this crew shared the load of the little toaster.
The toaster started as a joke during the crew’s train ride. Scouts Logan Vogler and Henry Taylor came up with the idea and successfully started selling toast to other passengers.
“We made six dollars,” Vogler said. “We ate three loaves of bread, though.”
When the train ride ended, however, the crew had become attached to the toaster and decided to make it the first bedazzled toaster to reach the summit of Baldy. Everywhere they went, the toaster went too, accumulating stickers from each staff camp they passed.
“It was a morale booster, honestly,” Vogler said. “It was one of those things where we said ‘We have to get there because we have to bring the toaster,’ obviously.”
Though 615-BB1 eventually accomplished their goal of summiting Philmont’s highest peak with their mascot in tow, they’re hoping that the toaster’s legacy lives on past their trek. They plan to send the toaster back to their ranger in hopes that he’ll pass it on to another worthy crew.
My Little Toaster Movie
“Hopefully, it’ll end up in the Scouting Museum,” Taylor said.
It may seem a bit silly to outsiders looking in, but that little toaster was a rock to crew 615-BB1. They cared for it, protected it, and only dropped it a few times before accomplishing their goal.