Summer lesson for y’all: Clean out your cooler within one day of using it.

Over two months ago we grilled some hot dogs and had a few beers with friends by the pool. We had tons of leftover food and drink.

You know the feeling you get after it’s “too late” to deal with something? You just let it go, and let it go… avoiding it as each day it gets worse and worse and you’ve realized there is no longer an easy way to “fix” it?

This is what happened. My cooler full of hot dogs and beer slowly got grosser and grosser. To the point where there was no easy way to clean it out. Especially when you live in a condominium with no backyard or hose.

Last resort? Tape it up so whatever strange growth inside could not creep out in the middle of the night and wreak havoc on this earth. Then dump it.

I’m just worried that someone will come to the dumpster in my building and say, “WOW, someone just dumped a perfectly good cooler. And it has WHEELS! And CUP HOLDERS! I’m taking this little treasure home!”

And then the end of the world will come.

I wipe my hands clean of this!