Fish-Bag!

We like to buy salmon fillet's from Costco. They come individually wrapped, in a large 're-closable' (zip-lock) bag. A couple of months ago, Tracy opened the freezer to get some salmon out for dinner that night, and there was no salmon left, but the salmon bag was still there! I happened to be walking by, and needless to say, I was correctly chastised for leaving the empty bag in the freezer the last time I pulled out some salmon. Tracy handed me the empty salmon bag and said, "now throw this away!" Nick was within earshot, and he and I thought it was pretty funny. Tracy headed down the hall to another room, so I thought it would be even more funny if I put the empty 'fish-bag' back in the freezer, so I did!

Within just a few hours, Tracy re-discovered the fish-bag. And of course I heard about it! I thought that was that, and life would now continue as normal, prank-free and happy.

I don't remember if it was the same day, or the next, but I'll never forget that night when I went to bed. I pulled back the covers, and there on MY PILLOW, was the stinky fish-bag! Ewwwww! The fish-bag battle was on!

Nick was very amused by the fish-bag fiasco. He suggested that it should show up on mom's computer keyboard. Her desk has a keyboard drawer. So Nick placed the fish-bag on her keyboard and closed the drawer. Not long after we heard the now common cry, "Ewwwww, stinky fish-bag!"

Not long after, I was at work one day innocently going about my business. I opened my portfolio (which sometimes comes home with me), and what had I brought to work that day? Ewwwww, stinky fish-bag!

I decided to hide the fish-bag in the glove compartment of my truck for a while. I went home and we laughed long and hard about the 'fish-bag portfolio incident'. Nick kept egging me on, trying to get me to put the fish-bag in Tracy's side of the bed, or some other spot for her to discover. I kept claiming that I had thrown the fish-bag away, but he didn't really believe me.

A week or two later, Tracy suggested that we put the fish-bag in Nick's luggage when he went to Africa. I immediately dismissed that idea, thinking that would be gross, and he wouldn't want to find the fish-bag there. But after another week or two, while at work one day, I envisioned Nick opening his luggage in Africa, and finding a 'stinky fish-bag' with cards and letters inside that he could read during his trip. Tracy thought that would be a great idea.

So I cleaned out the bag so it wouldn't be 'stinky' (it was never really stinky anyway, each salmon fillet was vacuum-sealed inside a separate bag). Then we each wrote three or four notes to Nick, and put them in the now famous fish-bag. Nick's Grand-ma even wrote some notes. Tracy slyly hid the surprise in his luggage on Monday night before he left.

We did hear from Nick last night that they did get their luggage (see this entry on the Northside Mission Ministry blog for more on that story). Tracy texted him, "Bags yet?" he texted back, "Yep Christmas in july". She replied, "All your stuff". He just texted this morning saying, "Yep everything- where did we put batteries- i think there gone".

No news about the well-travelled stinky fish-bag! I'm looking forward to hearing about that.