The first box is the sandbox, a place to play and create. Unfortunately, feral cats tend to ‘do their thing’ in the sandbox. A Jack-in-the-box would scare away any cat intending to do that.
Then comes the school lunch box, containing all the nutritious things Mom packed for little Johnny, to be eaten at noon. However, many were traded for the more attractive junk food brought by classmates. If the child is a Japanese girl with name such Tsumugi, Sui, Himari or Rin, the mid-day nourishment might be contained in a compartmentalized bento box, likely to contain rice, or noodles, with fish and pickled and cooked vegetables. Anglo classmates would utter, “Ugh! Yukk!
If bicycling or working with wood become hobbies, a tool box is a necessity. In the box go pliers, screw driver and can of oil, or a saw, plane, hammer and sandpaper. The tool box can be the compartmentalized limousine model with a lockable lid, or it can be just an open-top wooden box. Have you ever seen a professional automotive or aviation mechanic’s tool box? It’s usually seven drawers high, each can slide out, and the whole unit is on wheels.
With adulthood there may come military service. There, the soldier may become familiar with the ammo box that stores the ammunition being fired from the concrete pillbox.
Hopefully, years in a successful career eventually result in ownership of a home. These days, it’s probably like the song “Little Boxes” performed by Pete Seeger. Many of today’s homes are ticky-tacky, suburban in conformity, pink ones, green ones, blue ones, and yellow ones.
With advancing age usually come the pill boxes for dispensing of medications and reminding the senior of what day of the week it is. Yet to come is one that is not only AM and PM, but also large enough to tell which of the 28-31 days of the month it is. Over the horizon is an enormous pill dispenser to accommodate as many as 366 daily doses.
I’ll stay with the light slant of this column by not elaborating on that last box that comes at the end of life. It’s usually about 84″ long, 28″ wide and 23″ high – but larger if you’re a basketball player or sumo wrestler who didn’t succeed in following the Atkins, intermittent fasting, Keto or Weight Watchers’ diets.
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