Refrigerator Etiquette

Refrigerator Etiquette

I walk into my house absolutely famished it is 6 o’clock pm and I have just arrived from football practice; terrible day to say the least conditioning consisted of 10 gassers. I walk to the kitchen and I open my fridge to get some orange juice I have been craving since 7th period and what the do I come home to? A sip of orange juice left in the container! The biggest problem to me is if you find that there is only a tiny bit more than a serving of anything left in the fridge don’t just grab “a serving” and leave barely enough for the next person to eat or drink, take the whole thing. First of all you get to the fridge so hyped to see that there’s still the food or beverage that you want in there and when you pick it up, you suddenly feel there’s barely anything in the container. This is a huge tease.

This one day I go to my fridge to get a nice cup of 7 up and I find that there is only enough 7 up in the bottle to fill just a 6th of my cup. Now that is complete crap I think to myself, the only thing left to do is find the person who mislead me into pouring a 6th of 7up in my cup and give them this sob story about how there was barely enough for me to drink and they don’t care about what you’re talking about because they got the 7up they wanted. That is very annoying.

looking Suddenly you get the crave to make some macaroni and cheese and you find yourself for a pot. “Hmm where can it be?” So then you just say to yourself “You know what I’ll just get the milk and the mac and cheese first.” And suddenly you catch a view of the pot you need to use to make the mac and cheese. This makes me so mad.

The problem is now you want to cook something so you think you’re going to be able to start making your food, but now you have to remove all the leftovers from the pot and put them in a new container, clean the pot and then proceed cooking your meal wasting all that extra time. Or when you have to put things away in the fridge but you can because you have a big pot with a handle taking up a humongous amount of space then you have to take the extra time to make space in there.

This instance has occurred many times with me where I have wanted to get right to cooking some mac for myself and the pot I wanted to use was sitting in the refrigerator just waiting for me to clean it. What makes me so mad is the fact that whoever put it in there was too lazy to put it in Tupperware and clean the pot, but now I have to waste the time I didn’t have to, to place this food in Tupperware and clean the mess.

Worst of all is when they say “Hey I cooked for you and everybody else so you should at least clean it, it’s just a pot.” But they don’t realize the fact that you’re taking the extra time to remove the food and clean the pot and they don’t know what it’s like because they just happen to be the only person in the house that does this and not only that no one else has the decency to clean it at all so it always happens to be me that cleans the pot.

So if you are one of these people that leave that little sip of orange juice in the container for that one person that is craving it and teasing them with that sip, you better drink it all and throw the container away. If you just happen to be that person that cooks food with the pot and you stick that entire pot in the fridge for that person to clean up when their trying to quickly make themselves a quick meal, stop being lazy, wasting a good 15 minutes of their lives that they could be using to make their food and clean up that pot! Please use proper Refrigerator Etiquette.