Fun with Drawers

I am not sure if I have posted about this subject in recent years, and I am too lazy to look. But something happened today to motivate me to tell this story.

For years now, if wifey sees stuff of mine on the countertop (junk, important stuff, ALL STUFF), and she wants a clean countertop, she will put all of the stuff in the drawer directly beneath the counter it was on. Note the drawers are already full of junk, so this causes mass chaos for me when I try to find the said stuff.

A couple examples: one time, in a presumable drunken state, she put a bag a kraft shredded cheese in a drawer. I found it the next day and had to throw it out because, like, cheese needs to be refrigerated. She puts important work papers in the drawer which causes me to meltdown when I can't find them. She puts checks from renters in the drawers causing me to send 7 day notices.

After years of my fallout from this activity, I convinced her to leave my stuff alone as long as it is in a neat little pile and I promise to "take it to work tomorrow." So lately there has been little to report in with the drawers. But tonight.....

Tonight we sold our John Deere lawn mower to a buyer on craigslist. As I was outside getting it started in eager anticipation of a nice showing, I asked her to go get the Deere manual out of "the drawer." When she found the manual, she also found a netflix dvd, which was unopened in the red envelope.

A bit of history. When we canceled netflix mail-order over nine months ago in favor of Netflix streaming-only, there was a movie they sent me and I thought I never received it. A while later I noticed on my final bill from them I was charged for said movie ($15-20) for never sending it back. It was actually a movie that I wanted to see, and is not on Netflix-streaming.

Long story short, but you guessed it. Wifey took the missing netflix movie from my stack on the counter and buried it in the drawer it was innocently resting above. Nine months after the fact, the missing dvd is saved. Now at least I get to see that movie, since I bought it from netflix.