Milk crate

Big fan of these. I like standardized containers in general, and these are one of the best. Indestructible and useful for no end of applications. I love how for some reason they're always labelled so urgently like "IF YOU MISAPPROPRIATE THIS CRATE YOU WILL BE HANGED BY THE NECK UNTIL DEAD" but yet the only place you ever see them is miles from where they're supposed to be. According to Wikipedia, they're so famous for being stolen that it "has led at least one dairy farm to hire a private investigator to discover what is happening to the crates." I could have saved them some time. The crates are being used to transport dishes, hold books, lug junk in and out of businesses and old/new apartments and generally keep the world turning. An object that despises and resists its destiny, but unlike the characters in a Greek tragedy, the milk crate survives.