I merrily handed it to her:
Crickets, people. I might just as well handed her:
Oh, a dispenser?! It's weighted with sand, and you buy refills for it? From an office supply store? Who in the hell owns a tape dispenser? Those are for teachers! And, and, and...secretaries! (Forgive me for being politically incorrect, but remember, this was the 80s, and we still said "secretary," right along with "stewardess," back then. I didn't know any better.)
At any rate, you can bet your sweet bippy that it was seen to that I owned a tape dispenser—Good Lord, you'd think I'd put ketchup on my grilled cheese sandwich or something. (I digress, but, you see, in our family, if you fixed a grilled cheese sandwich only to discover there was no ketchup in the house, you just threw it away. I've since found out this is wrong.)
The truth is, I now love my tape dispenser, and I laugh every time I drag it out. I contemplate, when I use it, the tools we each use in our lives that may seem like necessities to us, but unheard of to others. To my list, I've added two very necessary items, equivalent to Diane's tape dispenser:
Paper Cutter
You have a paper cutter, don't you? I mean, if you decide to make a thing out of paper, how else would you cut it down? Or, if you need to trim a photo that you print yourself? Of course, you use your paper cutter. I use a paper cutter so often that I can barely get the thing put back into the closet in which it belongs. Why bother? I'll just drag it back out again.
Laminator
Actually, I didn't know I needed a laminator. My sister informed me I needed one, years ago, and proceeded to go out and buy one for me. Oh. My. God. She was right! I have gotten miles out of that laminator, and now with Toys for Troops, I couldn't live without one. If you yourself don't own a laminator...well, then I don't know how in the hell you laminate your stuff, that's all.
It's "Tell Me" time: What are the "quirky" items you have in your home that you use on a regular basis, that I might not have in mine?
I need to know.
So I can go buy one.
My quirkiest thing, according to the reaction of others, is my microscope. I use it all the time. I honestly can't figure out how other people manage without a microscope. I have to look at stuff. I mean, really look at stuff.
ReplyDeleteA tape dispenser? Really? Wow.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to think on that question. Nothing pops into my mind - since I use "it" all the time I think everyone else does too.
Lil
Microscope! I'm on it!
ReplyDeleteJazz, you have time to think about it...get back in touch!
A three-hole punch. I almost didn't write this because "of course Lori has a three-hole punch." But...what if she doesn't?????
ReplyDeleteOh and I can't believe you own a laminator. Back in 1989, I was room mother for my daughter's kindergarten class. I made a snowman Christmas ornament for each kid with their picture on it. The school let me use their laminator and I killed the thing or wasted a bunch of plastic or something. It was bad enough they made a new rule that only school employees could use it.
ReplyDeleteI have a mounted pencil sharpener - just like in school. Actually it came with Bob. He had it because he's an architect and they use real pencils (at least they used to before computers). I love it because I like to use real pencils to keep score when we play dice and this makes them really, really, really sharp.
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