# I bet I have the most pitiful lunch of everyone.

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**Created:** [January 11, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549 "2001-01-11T17:51:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/41 "2001-01-12T07:04:42Z")

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Oooh, radish kim chee! Yummy! I love that stuff.

And I will continue to whine and pester Mommy until she tells me. Or, I will wait until she has a big bunch of Koreans from her church over to the house and I will come over for free food (I do this a lot) and ask them. I have to speak to them (the Koreans) in German though, so let’s hope shumyunsiki translates to a word I understand in German. 😃

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/42 "2001-01-12T12:33:45Z")

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I’m having a stone for lunch.  
And some water.  
Still no cooking pot.  
Or a fire.  
Just a raw stone.  
And water.

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**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bet-i-have-the-most-pitiful-lunch-of-everyone/49549/43 "2001-01-12T14:08:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TopazAntares \*  
> \*\*Pandora… it’s not that I’m ungrateful or anything but I wouldn’t mind it if she just left it up to me to make my own lunches? I am 18 and can feed myself. She just gets up earlier then I do and has made it a habit to feed me… I’m gonna be fat by the time I move out \*\*

I know you’re not ungrateful, and I do understand how you feel. But wait 10 years. Then you might realize what a wonderful experience you are having.

You grandmother gets up early to make you lunch, not because she has too, not because you can’t feed yourself, and not because she doesn’t trust you with the peanut butter. She makes you lunch because she loves you. And with an 18 year-old, there aren’t too many ways left to show that kind of love, please let her. Someday, when your grandmother is gone, I hope you look back and realize just how much you meant to her.

I’m jealous of your lunch. Not the sandwich itself, but the love that comes with it.

(Of couse since I’m looking at cold rice for lunch today (and tomorrow, and the next day) your sandwich doesn’t look too bad either 😛

-Pandora

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