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dsandler: you either need more or less coffee.

April 25th, 2002

[09:33] <dsandler> Oh, what a wank!

[09:33] <dsandler> Some dude from a meeting yesterday (in the conference
room next to my cubicle) came by and if he could borrow my tape
dispenser.

[09:33] <dsandler> He didn’t return it, and I went to the conference
room to look, and it’s gone.

[09:33] <Trey> heh

[09:34] <dsandler> I could get another one, but PSI has changed tape
from Scotch(tm) to that super-glossyw-amber crap that crusts over
after a couple of months.

[09:34] <dsandler> I had one of the last normal-tape rolls.

[09:34] <Trey> LOL

[09:34] etron-home also hates the new tape…

[09:34] <dsandler> OK, this is even weirder:

[09:34] <Trey> dsandler: you either need more or less coffee. The
current value just won’t do.

[09:35] <dsandler> I looked more closely in the conference room, and my
tape dispenser is there (I know it b of the extra piece of tape
wrapped around the base). But they ed the nice Scotch roll with
Amber Crap Tape.

[09:35] * dsandler decides that this was a bad week to quit coffee.

[09:35] <Trey> Perhaps they ran out during the meeting?

[09:35] <dsandler> Of my tape.

[09:35] <dsandler> And went and replaced the roll.

[09:36] <dsandler> What the hell kind of meeting uses up a full roll of
transparent tape?

[09:36] <Trey> And then didn’t return the dispenser.

[09:36] <dsandler> Some sort of tape orgy?

[09:36] <lbj> There is honor among thieves.

[09:36] <dsandler> Yeah, they were inconsiderate as well as kinky.

[09:36] <lbj> Maybe they ran out of airplane glue.

[09:36] <dsandler> You know, this is a pretty funny rant, no matter
what.

[09:37] <Trey> dsandler: the humor comes because it actually bothers
you.

[09:37] <dsandler> Yeah, it’s funny because it’s irrationally upsetting.

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