The most extreme case of ice hoarding I’ve seen comes to us from an office in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania:
![I bring my ICE from home! Please don't TAKE IT. [Response]: You are very strange.](http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8337/8245043905_70d454ef72_b.jpg "I bring my ICE from home! Please don't TAKE IT. [Response]: You are very strange.")
Personally, I think Nicolette’s “Aunt Anny” in California is onto something. (Assuming, of course, that people have the recipe.)
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#1
scott hall
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Dec 26, 2012 at 1:30 pm rating: 19
#2
redheadwglasses
I can kind of understand this. We have some ice-users in our office, and sometimes that freezer gets a stinkiness to it (usually coinciding with the fridge needing to be cleaned).
Then again, the only purpose ice cubes have in my life is to make cocktails, so maybe I’ll have an ice maker installed at my desk.
Dec 26, 2012 at 1:31 pm rating: 9
#3
Jami
I can see the point of both. I’ve seen my coworkers make ice even when the ice trays have been left out empty and damp for so long mold is growing in them. (They only make ice in the summer.) And I have a brother who’s notorious for emptying ice cube trays and not refilling them. He apparently thinks making ice is “women’s work.” (He can be very misogynistic, sadly.) Thank God for automatic ice makers and whomever invented them in the first place.
Dec 26, 2012 at 1:55 pm rating: 5
#4
shwo!
That’s sad. That ice is probably the only thing they have left to remember their home world of Hoth.
Dec 26, 2012 at 2:00 pm rating: 21
#5
Julia
Which is stranger, the fact that the writer felt the need to bring ice from home, or the fact that the writer used electric green labels on which to write their note?
Dec 26, 2012 at 3:27 pm rating: 12
#6
Heather
Maybe the person who brought their ice cubes made them from bottled water rather than tap? Not that I would do this, but hey.
Dec 26, 2012 at 4:17 pm rating: 4
#7
KittenPlaysViolin
Never get between and woman and her ice. Ever!
Dec 26, 2012 at 4:47 pm rating: 2
#8
mutzali
We have folks at work who will use 2 or 3 cubes, and dump the rest in the sink. Do they refill the tray? No, they leave it in the drying rack.
And I’ve brought in a bag of store-bought ice, only to have it gone by afternoon. Why? “Extra ice just sitting in there. We make ice coffee for everybody!” and then they told me how drinking iced sodas is bad for my digestion. It will awaken demons or something.
Dec 26, 2012 at 5:17 pm rating: 4
#9
Lita
I think I prefer an ice bin that’s not fucking. So much mess left behind…
Dec 26, 2012 at 5:43 pm rating: 17
#10
Silence
Eesh. These people sound downright cold-hearted.
Dec 26, 2012 at 11:22 pm rating: 5
#11
CT
They need to put the ice in an opaque container.
Dec 27, 2012 at 6:23 am rating: 1
#12
it's naptime
The special ice is for cryogenically preserving that marker once it’s finally dead. It does not seem to have much time left.
Dec 27, 2012 at 9:45 am rating: 3
#13
Dane Zeller
I’m allergic to ice.
Dec 27, 2012 at 11:01 am rating: 2
#14
Nikki
Although we’re lucky enough to have an automatic ice maker in the freezer, since it’s the bin kind and not the in the door kind, people just put their mitts straight in it to get ice. Eeew. I don’t use enough ice to necessitate bringing it from home but I always get tongs and fish out the fresh, unmolested ice.
Dec 27, 2012 at 1:39 pm rating: 0
#15
Damaris
We have an ice machine at work. Like they have in bars. (We’re in construction.) Everyone uses the scoop. In many respects, we are unrepentant heathens, but we don’t manhandle ice. Odd standards! We have them!
Dec 29, 2012 at 2:55 am rating: 5
#16
Sorcha
At my work we don’t have any ice trays, so yeah, if I brought in ice, I’d put a note on it too. I don’t see how a straightforward “this is mine, please don’t take it” note is PA. If it’s not labelled, someone might think that it really was for all to use.
Dec 29, 2012 at 3:46 am rating: 1
#17
Bluecanary
When my mom was having her chemo, she had to be very careful about other people’s germs. Most people dig ice out of an ice bin with their hands, not thinking about the last time they washed their hands. She had to bring ice from home to her office. She did not, however, put a weird note on it, that I know of.
Dec 29, 2012 at 9:40 am rating: 0
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