This may not be that big of a deal, but its currently bugging the crap out of me.    I'll start out with a bit of a back story...

My uncle was getting the bathroom remodeled to be handicap accessible for my grandma; he decided to stick with the plans and this is the 3rd week that theyve been working on it.  He gave the workers a house key (though I didnt know this until a few days ago) but he asked that I be at the house when theyre there to keep an eye on them I spose and to be there for his dogs.  Since I'm not working right now, I agreed to take Jacob over there with me and hang out at his house M-F from 8-330ish (sometimes later).

My uncle's got a HUGE tv and more channels than me so the first few days wasnt too shabby.  But it was starting to get boring and he doesnt have wireless so I had even less to do, besides draw, color, and do crosswords.  So I did what any normal person would do and snoop. But its not like I was being totally sketchy and snooping- I just looked through his living room at his movies and through the kitchen cabinets, I found a whole lot of cake pans that my grandma had (I didnt even know she baked any!) and I found a couple of recipe boxes so I looked through my grandmas recipes a few times..  alright alright you got me, I also looked at some of my grandma's jewelery cuz she had some real cool costume jewelery growing up- but I didnt take it and left everything the way I found it.  

I quickly learned that my uncle freezes EVERYTHING! bread, butter, soups, everything. Which led me to be concerned- stuff can only be freezedd for so long, right? But thats a WHOLE different story.

Now to get back to the point.   I opened a cabinet a day or so ago to get a pack of peanut btter nabs out for Jacob and noticed that the medicine bottle on the shelf looked kind old. Naturally, I took a closer look- it expired in 1999. A couple other bottles expired in 2001. Expiration dates for medicines are usually 3-4 years after the sold date, so that got me concerned. It meant that these medicines were older than my cousin! He's 14 and in the 9th grade....I'd take something that expired a few years ago, but for it to be closer to 14 years old? Yeah, that would TOTALLY sketch me out.  

I saw it as a safety issue and since my uncle seems to have a problem with throwing things out (He got a set of Emeril Pans for christmas this past year and was still using his ancient pans until I switched them old last week) I thought I'd be helpful and doing him a favor if I through them out.  I couldnt have been more wrong!He called my mother all bent out of shape over it.  

Yes, hindsight tells me that it wasnt my place to throw it out since its not my house, but to get all bent out over the loss of 15 year old medicine?!   After seeing how long he keeps everything, I really felt like I was helping him out............   

Really got me upset.  Bah.........