Background: About a month, ago my little guy lost his lunch box. He brought it to school and then when he went to grab it at the end of the day it was gone. I sent him into school the next day and told him to check the lunch room and his sisters lunch bucket because the lunch box had her name on it (his original box broke). He looked and couldn’t find it. So I went in and checked every single lunch bucket in the school and the lost and found and it was nowhere to be found. I told him that someone probably accidentally took it home and it would arrive back any day. After about two weeks we gave up, it didn’t look like it was ever coming back.

Today, I had to drop something off for a little girl in second grade. One of my friends saw me in the hall and said “hey I saw daphne’s lunch box (eamon’s lost box) in the lost and found in the cafeteria.” I thanked her and said that we had been looking for it. I headed right to the cafeteria and sure enough there it was.

Fast forward 15 minutes. School is out and I’m waiting in the front hall with the lunch box for the kids. When they finally got there I say to both of them “look what I found in the cafeteria, isn’t it weird that it showed up?” To that, the custodian came over to us and told us that he had found the lunch box in the front bushes when he was putting a cover on one of the air conditioners. I was shocked. I had always thought that someone accidentally took it home.

Now I have visions of some kid, upon realizing he/she had grabbed the wrong lunch box, just tossing it into the bushes. Who does that? And boy would I kill my kid if they did that.

At least we have our lunch box back, yeah for us!