OK, so maybe this is just a teeny-weeny bit eccentric, but something tells me that there might be other people who would like to take a look at my first grade lunch pail. Actually, that "something" was my brother Rich, who knew a gem when he saw it. And one of the joys of being a younger brother is that I can annoy Rich yet again by pointing out that yes, the Thermos is still intact, albeit a bit corroded. I carried this pail thoughout my elementary education, although on about fifth grade I covered it with '70s contact paper in a futile attempt to not look like a geek. Yeah, right. Nice try.

I believe that I got this lunchbox in Green Bay, Wisconsin the Fall after the show had been cancelled, but it was either this one or one of the little-yellow-school-bus lunch pails, and I definitely didn't want that.