Do You Copy?
Teachers tended not to believe the dog ate your
homework. I doubted the regulators would
believe the rabbit ate my chart.
I trudged to the copy machine.
Randy was an administrator who made few copies. He thought the ancient copier worked just
fine. Those of us who printed handouts
for group held a different opinion.
“Your mother was mimeograph with a loose handle,” I said to
the machine.
I put half the chart into the feeder and pushed the button
for two-sided printing. Three pages
later the feeder jammed. I cleared the jam.
Two minutes after that, I heard a ripping noise and paper crumpling
inside the copier.
I ended up feeding the pages of the chart to the copier one
at a time, clearing a clog about every ten.
In the grand scheme of things, a lousy copier was not a big
deal. “I’m not going to take this
personally,” I said to the machine. I
looked around before whispering, “But wouldn’t it be a shame if somebody
spilled a giant cup of coffee down your innards?”
Today I’ll accept some frustration is just part of life.
Fawlty Showers 2
is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you
might know is purely coincidental.
Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S
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