Sanitizer

In the midst of jarring pepper sauce, my husband had the idea to use miniature hand sanitizer bottles as receptacles. He asked me to purchase about twenty miniature hand sanitizer bottles when I next went to Target. But I forgot (I can't be counted on to remember even the things I want to purchase). I forgot, I guess, on purpose because that's pretty disgusting - to jar pepper sauce in miniature hand sanitizer bottles. Arguing did me no good, so I wrote on my list (which I forgot to take with me):

Twenty miniature hand sanitizer bottles (Which I forgot)

Bread (Which I forgot) (Which ever earns me a look that says, "Distracted!") (No tomato sandwiches now)

Diet Coke (Almost forgot) (Almost had to drink coffee)

Tide (Usually forget) (But not this time) (Because Spray 'n Wash does not "wash" clothes)

Garbage bags (Didn't forget this time) (Only because two times earns you a look that says, "Irresponsible!")

Aluminum foil (Never forget this so we always have too much)

Mucinex (For Allen's summer cold) (Which didn't work)

A bathroom scale (For Ben, who has requested one) (Forgot) (Allie, who was ready to go after getting all the things she needed, says he can sit around in his fat another week)

Cheez-its (Never forget, though I should) (Will be sitting around in my own fat another week)

Tangerines (For Allie) (Who didn't share) (Then wondered where all the lemons are)

Cheerios (For Allie) (Who thinks they are healthy even though they say "Frosted")

Band-aids (For Allie's Chihuahua/terrier) (Who has bloody protuberances on her mangy legs)

Neosporin (For Allie's Chihuahua/terrier) (Who bites her mangy legs, causing bloody protuberances)

Fungal cream (For Allie's Chihuahua/terrier) (Who has stinky ears) (May the Lord strike me if I forget)(Again) (But nothing for Ben's Chihuahua/terrier whose ears are just as stinky) (And who could use some toothpaste)

Paper towels (Didn't forget again) (Can't bear the look that says, "Absent-minded!") (Or use rags)

Printer ink (Forgot!) (Ben will be the first to notice) (Then remind me I forgot the bathroom scale too) (Then remind me Marie Curie's husband got run over being so distracted)

When my husband discovered I had forgotten the twenty miniature bottles of hand sanitizer, he was disappointed, but not surprised - having known me a long time. But, I spoke up once more that no one wants to eat pepper sauce from miniature hand sanitizer bottles. Not even if you sterilize them for a fortnight. Then I started wondering if you actually could sterilize bottles, to any reasonable safety standards, that contain hand sanitizer. Are they made of a particular polymer that will hold traces of that junk forever, or are some of those particles gases that will be released with steam, or....?

I worried for the evening. Allen is old enough to drive to the store and buy his own twenty miniature bottles of hand sanitizer. I just knew he would return the next morning with twenty miniature bottles of hand sanitizer. However, what he returned with were twenty miniature (glass) bottles of pepper sauce. He proceeded to dump them out and sterilize them for his own, superior, pepper sauce. Glass is easily sterilized so I was able to keep my train of thought.

Day saved.