amyneff

I was just thinking about the year at school when they replaced our mini milk cartons with plastic milk pouches.  It happened somewhere between 3rd and 5th grade.  Two students came around a week or two before they made the switch, and demonstrated in the middle of math class on a pouch of water the proper way to stab it with the straw.  I remember wondering how they picked which kids got to skip class and give the demonstrations, because I was a little jealous.  If you didn't put your thumb over the end of the straw, milk would squirt everywhere.  The pouches looked like the one in the picture, except there were no pretty images printed on them.  There may have been some generic black print indicating the skim and 2% milk, but the chocolate you just figured was chocolate because it was brown.  I remember people drinking all their milk and then blowing the bags up like pinwheels, and spinning them on them with the straw poked all the way through.

/reminiscing.