Forgotten, yet familiar

A few weeks ago we took some family visiting from out of town to the Harley Davidson Museum. As with any outing with kids, the kids tend to lead the way. Our nuclear family quickly split off from the rest of the group and explored the museum's many child-friendly features.

One of the things my boys really enjoyed were these large metal lateral file cabinets. They beckoned visitors to open the large sliding drawers and see what was inside behind the plexiglass. We had already investigated the contents of one of the cabinets and then came to another in a different section of the museum. One of us opened the top drawer, and this immediately caught my eye.

There among a display of motorcycle-themed lunchboxes was a Miss Piggy lunchbox that looked so incredibly familiar to me, yet if you had asked me 5 minutes prior, I would have never remembered ever owning such a lunchbox. Confirmed later with my parents, I had in fact owned and used this lunchbox in elementary school.

It always interesting to me how like scents, familiar imagery can also be triggered and brought back to the surface of a person's mind after so many years.