Lauren Spohr

The pleasure, it costs $12 for two of them.

And the pleasure that I've gotten from that $12, because for years I've been trying to weigh down the lid of my trash can with whatever heavy objects are available.

But then you go out to take your trash out and you have to put the trash down and move the heavy thing and open it.

Because we have so many raccoons.

And who knows, like animals get into the trash.

So you can buy these little nylon buckles to keep your trash can closed.

The brand I got is called Pato, P-A-H-T-T-O.

That's a good idea.

Oh, it says bear-proof trash bin lid lock.

I have to say, I can imagine a bear could get in there still, but a little tiny raccoon cannot.

That's my number three.

It's given me enormous pleasure.

I've been deeply enjoying it.

Well, Lauren, we have gone around the bend today.

Yes.

Please send your idea for the next Criminal Plus Reading Club.

Where I was, it was the Christmas of my first year of college. And I was home in Jacksonville. And I think I was just hanging out with my friends from high school. We were all back in town. And if I'm remembering correctly, we were just driving around. And I remember there were fireworks. So it was a sort of suburban... Seems dangerous to be driving on New Year's Eve.

Where I was, it was the Christmas of my first year of college. And I was home in Jacksonville. And I think I was just hanging out with my friends from high school. We were all back in town. And if I'm remembering correctly, we were just driving around. And I remember there were fireworks. So it was a sort of suburban... Seems dangerous to be driving on New Year's Eve.

But also sort of classic, if you can picture like a 90s movie. You just drive around with your friends and that's how you spent the past evening. Probably went to a gas station and got a stranger to buy you some Miller High Life and then just drank it in the car. And I was all by myself in the middle of a frozen lake. So if aliens had come down on Y2K, you were ready? Oh, I mean, I was a beacon.

But also sort of classic, if you can picture like a 90s movie. You just drive around with your friends and that's how you spent the past evening. Probably went to a gas station and got a stranger to buy you some Miller High Life and then just drank it in the car. And I was all by myself in the middle of a frozen lake. So if aliens had come down on Y2K, you were ready? Oh, I mean, I was a beacon.