Laura is on a mission. As her mother catches a short nap, she collects her old toys, a table spoon, her favourite moms magazine and gets the large Tupperware box.

She understands that this mission is of uttermost relevance and must be done to-day. It must be done to-day because the garden men that came early to check something under the earth had left a big hole and would fill it up tomorrow.

Stepping closer to the garden, she sets her prized box down and pries open the sliding door. On the way to the hole she stops to add some flowers to her collection, deeming them pretty enough. After all this was gonna be a time capsule. She wasn’t absolutely sure what a time capsule was, but after she saw it on the telly she had immediately liked the idea. It was like a big chocolate egg with a surprise hidden in it. Except without chocolate. Her small fingers made it hard to pry the box open yet open it did. Placing the last object inside, her favourite hair clip she closed it again and gently pushed the box inside.

After all was said and done Laura stood up and marched back to the sliding door with a feeling of great accomplishment. Her mama would find the box in 200 or 500 years and be so happy to see her magazine and all the flowers. She couldn’t wait for it to happen.

And she didn’t.

After promptly forgetting about the so called time capsule Laura spent the rest of the day watching cartoons and helping Mama cook.

And the time capsule was found much earlier than 500 years thanks to the diligent workers checking the pipe one more time.

Imagine their surprise seeing a small Tupperware box near the water pipe.