When I was in high school, my friends and I used to eat at fine dining establishments like Dairy Queen because we didn't have much money and we liked sugar. This was back in the days when smoking was still allowed in public restaurants in our city, and Dairy Queen had these sweet* little disposable foil ashtrays with stars on them. I have always hated cigarettes, but my friends and I sometimes picked up the clean ashtrays and made crafts out of them because... well, they were shiny, they were easily folded, and they had stars on them. They were also free, and we were broke high school students. We had to get our kicks somewhere.
Fast forward XX years. Smoking has been prohibited in restaurants for nearly seven years in this county, and I hadn't seen those disposable ashtrays anywhere for years before that.
Until this week:
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| The stuff of my teenage craft projects. I still have one that used to hang on my bedroom wall. |
Apparently someone stole a stack of disposable ashtrays from a Dairy Queen, hoarded them for more than a decade, and then decided to donate them to Goodwill.
The best part? Goodwill priced these (formerly) free, disposable items at a magnanimous 49 cents each. "Yep, ladies and gents, for only 49 cents, you can own your very own
* I use this term in the '90s slang sense meaning "awesome," not the more common usage meaning "adorable or cute."
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