Thursday, March 15, 2012

On The Valuableness Of Tape

Of all the office supplies there are few that are as valuable and yet as problematically sticky as tape. For example, tape can be used to repair a wide variety of papers and objects ranging from books to dropped hems. Tape can keep up a picture or poster and if you have dropped your hole-punch on the floor or scattered some other small thing, it can be used to pick up all those little pieces that are now decorating your floor. In addition, if you have a small furry friend several pieces of tape can be used to swiftly remove their fur from your clothing, so that you do not take on the appearance of that friend.

On the downside, there are those unpleasantly sticky situations where the tape decides it must stick to everything except for the object you desire it on. By the time you get it off what it has stuck itself to, such as your hair, fingers, clothing, or surface you are working on, you find it has become perfectly useless by either having lost its stick or having become a small sticky wad. From here you can only hope that the next piece will be more successfully stuck.

So as can be seen from these few examples, tape proves valuable for many uses and the sticky situations that can result from tape are endless. 


1 comment:

  1. Yet Another AdmirerMay 10, 2012 at 5:19 PM

    Dear Inky, Of all your postings, this is my favorite. It was just yesterday that when I finally had the tape ready to be placed on the desired challenging site, the stick was gone. Where in the world did it go to?

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