By COLLEEN ALMEIDA SMITH Staff Writer on Aug 10, 2012, at 1:00 PM Updated on 8/10 at 1:03 PM
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Which lunch box would you choose?
Even now I like to tease my mom about my grade-school lunch box.
As far back as I could remember, she packed lunches for me and my brothers in brown paper bags. Every day after eating our lunches, we threw our trash away, folded up our bags and brought them home for the next day's lunch.
Meanwhile all around us, our friends had metal lunch boxes adorned with characters from "Star Wars," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Scooby-Doo" or Strawberry Shortcake. They were sleek and modern, and every year the kids had a new one to match the latest craze.
For me, the brown bag became an ever-present symbol of how uncool I was.
On the eve of my fifth-grade year, I issued a declaration: I had to have a lunch box. No more paper bags for me.
After a trip to Walmart for school supplies, my mom returned to unveil my new lunch box. It was big. It was red. It was plastic.
Instead of the cute metal lunch box with the pop culture characters that I had dreamed of, I had a sewing box. I was mortified. I think I cried. I probably carried my lunch in it once or twice, and then I went back to brown paper bags.
A few years later when my youngest brother asked for a lunch box, he got the metal lunch box -- complete with a thermos -- that I had dreamed of. I always knew she liked him best.
Do you remember your favorite lunch box from your school years?
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