No Blood For Napkins!
Oct. 29th, 2004 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothI don't know how it happened, but for the longest time -- years and years -- there's been a pile of napkins sitting on my desk, between my keyboard and my monitor. I think they mostly got there when I was eating food at my desk; I tend to be overzealous about the number of napkins I take when I eat.
Recently, though, I had a nasty cold, and was blowing my nose regularly. That used up a bunch of them... and they weren't getting replaced, because I knew I had this big pile of napkins and didn't need to bring back more with me. Finally, this week, after a couple snacks, some pimples, and the way my right ear started bleeding (from a dry spot I couldn't stop scratching at on the lobe, not 'bleeding out the ear' or anything), I managed to burn through my entire Strategic Napkin Reserve.
It was the end of an era.
Of course, now that I don't have any napkins lying around, I have to take more back with me whenever I get a snack -- for instance, I took four with the donut I had after lunch. Like a pheonix, the pile of napkins shall be reborn!
Only, not really at that much at all like a pheonix, since if I set the pile of used napkins in the trash can on fire, it'd set off the sprinklers and ruin all my... er...
Wait a second. There *aren't* any sprinklers. I don't see any sign of fire suppression equipment at all! This place is a deathtrap! We're all doomed!
Recently, though, I had a nasty cold, and was blowing my nose regularly. That used up a bunch of them... and they weren't getting replaced, because I knew I had this big pile of napkins and didn't need to bring back more with me. Finally, this week, after a couple snacks, some pimples, and the way my right ear started bleeding (from a dry spot I couldn't stop scratching at on the lobe, not 'bleeding out the ear' or anything), I managed to burn through my entire Strategic Napkin Reserve.
It was the end of an era.
Of course, now that I don't have any napkins lying around, I have to take more back with me whenever I get a snack -- for instance, I took four with the donut I had after lunch. Like a pheonix, the pile of napkins shall be reborn!
Only, not really at that much at all like a pheonix, since if I set the pile of used napkins in the trash can on fire, it'd set off the sprinklers and ruin all my... er...
Wait a second. There *aren't* any sprinklers. I don't see any sign of fire suppression equipment at all! This place is a deathtrap! We're all doomed!
