Oldsters do the darnedest things

When the home aides rebelled against cooking with the past-dates food from the deep freeze, my father finally capitulated and threw out all the mastodon-era steaks and Jurassic frozen peas. It must have cost him dearly. The thing was packed with ancient foodstuffs. In the end, he decided to just shut the thing down and not use it at all—as a freezer. But, he found, it makes an excellent file cabinet for old documents that he wasn’t quite ready to throw away.