UXOEOD

Over the years, I have collected, without understanding why, small containers, minature bottles, cans and even boxes. Well, I now know why. I am to create a minature 21st Century Mercantile, a modern day general store, if you will, with containers, labled, of 21st century essential oils, potions, and tools.

We all grew up knowing that witches had spice racks full of Eye of Newt, Essence of Frog Lips, Dragon Blood, and other wonders. And each one of us, have either searched, or sent some new-bee out to search for a essential (mythical) item, tool, or product.

Which Air Force Vet hasn't sent a young naive troop out for a bucket of Prop Wash, or a few feet of Flightline? And I have heard Navy Vets fondly recall their unofficial ship-wide scavenger hunt for the replace batteries for the Sound Powered Telephone. Ordnance Techicians, Bomb and Bullet Counters, never have enough Low Drag High Speed Bomb Paint. I even remember my Great Great Grandmother, a high-paid union Seemstress, laughing over sending a new employee to search for a thimble full of Thread Count.

Enough introduction. I fully suspect each of us, in our personal universe know of an 21st Century Essential. Please tell me, so I can fill my little minature mercantile shop' shelves with a those great, often humorous, likely mythical, always hard to find items. Being ignorant of your specific world needs, please tell me the name of the product, the method of shipping, and if possible a brief description, i.e. Thread Count was always stored and carried by the Thimble-full, while Prop Wash was always a lovely Air Force Blue liquid that was required by the Bucket-full, and Flightline was store by the roll, and used by "a few feet".

I look forward to creating the ultimate inventory of our mythical essentials.

Forgot my favorite tool, the Box Stretcher, a tool used to solve that problem when you find you have just a wee bit more stuff than a box-full. Send the newest employee to the dusty basement to retrieve the Box-Stretcher. This item always seems to be needed at coffee break time, or lunchtime.

Thanks in advance.

02Nomad Loc: Catonsville, MD

Having worked in healthcare, I remember sending newbies to Central Supply for some sterile fallopian tubes.

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

The hospital orderly asked by the Matron to go to the next ward to ask for a box of Fallopian Tubes.

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

You just got then before me!

UXOEOD

Thanks, I will certainly include a bottle labled Fallopian Tubes. Thank you.

nicksr1125 Loc: Mesa, AZ

We used to send newbie photgraphers mates to the store room for a box of f-stops. There was a sign on the darkroom door admonishing folks to keep it shut so the dark wouldn't leak out. When I was stationed in Thailand, I ran the QC shop at the 432nd RTS. I had three bottles of film cleaner on my desk labeled cloud eradicator, peanut butter & jelly remover, and liquid f-stop. An intel captain (a former marine grunt who got his degree) came into office 1 day & asked for some cloud eradicator. Five minutes later he came storming into my office and demanded to know why I hadn't explained to him what it really was. My major boss happened to be there at the time & told him to go back to the PI cave & confront the person who sent him on the goose chase. My father-in-law was a plumber who would ask the grandkids to go get him a left-handed monkey wrench.

UXOEOD

Great. Thank you, I am sure a palet of Darkness, and bottles of Cloud Eradicator and liquid f-stops will be in stock. Any particular color on the liquid f-stops?

I suspect I may have to dedicate an entire section to left handed tools.

Quixdraw Loc: x

I can think of a few -- to the hardware store for glass nails and a rubber hammer -- sending Water Safety Class trainees back to the clubhouse for 50 feet of shore line. Being sent out as a Tenderfoot scout on a snipe hunt.

Ol' Frank Loc: Orlando,

How about us old telephone central office equipment installers looking for the Key to the Outgoing Trunk.

llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio

We used to send splicers' helpers to get some "dial tone."

~Lee

UXOEOD

Love the Glass Nails! And I was so close to having my Snipe mouneed by a taxidermist!

Thanks for adding to the inventory!

UXOEOD

You may have just instituted a new display, Lost Keys to ......

Love it. Thanks

UXOEOD

Not sure on what container would be appropriate, a bottle?, a carton? Or possibly a oversized labeled tuning fork?

Thanks. Any suggestions?

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

A box full of problem solvers. A union scale was always my favorite

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

how about the "any key" as in hit any key and...