That Drawer Next To The Cutlery Drawer

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A shed, but on a far smaller scale.

Every kitchen in the Western world is fitted with an extra drawer next to the drawer you store cutlery in.

Nobody is quite sure what to use it for, but it will always end up being used to store the same six items, namely:

• Some rawlplugs nobody can remember buying.
• The instructions to the microwave, which through some trick of magic will become the instructions for the panini press the second you need to read the instructions for the microwave, before reverting back when you decide to make paninis.
• A tiny and pointless screwdriver set that someone got in a Christmas cracker.
• A long, tangled ball of string.
• A big ball of hairy Blu Tack you've owned since you were 12 and can't bring yourself to throw out.
• A hand-written recipe for lasagne that an aunt gave you in 1995.

Scientists are still baffled by the purpose of that drawer next to the cutlery drawer, and can only theorise that our ancestors used to own a lot more cutlery than modern life allows.