More Venerable Old Stuff In The Boot Room and Another Store Mystery

This is one of the things I like to visit
 upstairs in the Boot Room.

The top one was for holding spools of thread.

It says "Eureka Spool Silk"

I think J & P Coats Fast Colors is Eureka Spool Silk's buddy,

but see how thread got a shiny new display case downstairs

 so Eureka Spool Silk ended up alone and dusty upstairs?

Check out Thread Thread

Anyway, the bottom thing is another store mystery:

I am not sure what the bottom case was meant to display.
It has dowels inside each display window,
like maybe for books or jars
or some sort of boxed item?
What sort of thing that rests on dowels would you want to keep behind glass? 

Another Basement Mystery

It is down in the basement,
over by the candy shelves, behind some crates of nuts and dried fruit.
It used to be hidden by hugely tall stacks of candy and plastic bag boxes, so I never saw it until someone recently revamped candy and plastic bag storage.

It looks like half a rabbit hutch.

It is sitting on an old freezer case.

It looks like it has some sort of cash register in it.

It has cash register-like signs posted on it.

(Holly Moose was IN TROUBLE!)

It is like a lean-to for a cash register.

Was it outside once?

If so, why?

It must have been for the gas pumps.
That means Jeremiah definitely knows where this was and why it was there.
I bet he used it before they moved his card swiper to the entryway and gave him a cash apron to wear.
I don't ever remember seeing it outside.
BUT... sometimes I can't remember yesterday.
What makes me think I could remember 10 years ago?

The back has a D&W's bumper sticker.

The sides have nice brackets and handles.

Cardboard is used everywhere to pad, layer, or protect.

 This cardboard is from a case of American Flatbread Co. Pizza.

This is from the American Flatbread Co.'s website.

Their pizza looks good but I have never bought any. Too expensive.

What Do You Suppose THAT Is? Now with added verbiage. LOTS of added verbiage.

It took me a really long time to notice this thing.
It was just always there,
at the bottom of the Unmoving Ramp,
piled with dusty old groceries
and rags
and papers
and fermenting bottles of liquid stuff.

Those are my Rice Chex. They are fresh. They are gluten free. Whoopie!!

There is a little nipple-like protrusion on the elbow that I find useful when breaking down taped boxes. I smash the taped seam of the box on the protrusion and it pierces the tape. This is in lieu of picking up a box cutter and using the razor edge to cut the tape. 

I hate picking up a box cutter

and putting down a box cutter

and picking up a box cutter

and putting down a box cutter

and picking up a box cutter. 

Becuase you never really know where it will wander off to after you set it down. 

You go to grab it and BAM! it is not where you set it. 

Then you have to go whistling and calling for it,

"HEEERE BOX CUTTER. WHERE AAAAAARE YOU!

I AM GOING TO FIND YOU!

AND WHEN I DO I WILL RIP OUT YOUR CHEATING RAZOR-LIKE HEART

YOU FILTHY FAITHLESS BASTARD!!!!"

But the protrusion never moves.

It is an Stolid Pinnacle of Motionless Patience.

Which is what you need when breaking down a crap ton of boxes.

OK, so I get a little worked up over some things.

It is good to have a focus for one's equanimity practice.

My focus is box cutters.

I could go on.

But I won't.

Not here.

Maybe in a future post about the faithlessness of the Box Cutter Clan
and my anger management issues/inventions.

Meanwhile, back to the mystery thing:

The nipple-like protrusion.

Here is a view from the other side. It has a crank!

Please note the absence of Rice Chex (I took them home) and the flattened box behind the paper towel roll -- I took this photo after breaking down a crap ton of boxes.

What I really wanted to say was that I finally noticed this thing after some random retail container of cleaning fluid had leaked onto the back left corner. I went to clean it up and it had made the orange paint all sticky and bubbly and GROSS. What a mess that was. So that made me notice this monstrosity. It is some kind of pump. And pressurizing device. Hence the crank and the gauge and the tank.

OMG... The End