The Problem With Milk.

As a kid, I grew up choosing milk over pop about 80% of the time, give or take. Now, I have the occasional glass, or bowl of cereal. So my milk intake is down. Plus, it's far pricier than water or tea, which are my main staples lately.

Still a good bowl of cereal is a fine start to a morning. So, I've been bringing milk and cereal to work in the mornings. Separately of course. The only issue I've been running into lately are the little ziplock storage containers that we have tend to leak, making it difficult, if not impossible for me to transport anything liquid in them.

I finally found the solution hiding in the plastic wrap drawer. Ziplock bags. So for a couple of weeks now, I have been using them to bring milk to work in my soft side lunch bag. It worked like a charm. Until...

I went to make my first pot of tea for the day. (Giant Eagle Green Tea with Citrus. Damn tasty.) When I returned to my desk, there was milk seeping through the lunch bag. The plastic bag I chose this morning had a tiny leak just below the closure on one side. The apple sitting on top of it had compressed it just enough to slowly force milk out of the ziplock, into the lunch bag, and onto my desk. Good thing I know where the cleaning supplies are.

As leaks go, it wasn't that bad. No equipment on my desk was touched. The surface was easily cleaned with some 3M Desk Cleaner, and the rest of my food, including the apple, stayed dry. The lunch bag, however, needs a good cleaning. I wonder if it is machine washable.