The First Task

I stare at the contraption, trying to hold my eyeballs from bugging out. That would be an unseemly sight for a first day.

“Already?” I thought to myself, “but it’s so soon.”

Well, they are one of the top dogs.  They had to have gotten to the top by moving fast.

I stare and I stare at the contraption, hoping that maybe the more I stare, the answer to how to use it would pop out mysteriously. But alas, no such luck.

I sit down in front of the contraption, ready to make friends with it. I lift it up. It’s light. There seems to be no openings. Oh, but wait! I think I see a handle of some sort! I lift it. It takes me inside the machinery…and still leaves me no clue as to how to use it. Seriously? Fine, we’ll be frenemies.

I couldn’t dare ask my co-worker for help. They’d laugh me out of my cubicle.  A brief thought of phoning in assistant extraordinaire crossed my mind but where would I call? In the bathroom? I don’t even know where the bathroom is! And even she, in all her congeniality, would still laugh me out of my cubicle. No, this was a matter to be sorted out privately.

I try to slide some pieces into the contraption but there seems to be no slot. But what would it print on then?!

Oooh…the “on” button. That’s a good place to start. I press it and suddenly, it’s as though a giant lightbulb lit up. You don’t need to slide paper into the label maker! It has its own paper (called tape)! And when all else-like shaking it, baking it, caressing it, making faces at it-fails, just press the “on” button!

Okay, so maybe labeling and filing is not considered a Herculean task to most, I have never used a label maker before. When the first label, marked with a show title, printed out. I was as proud as a mother hen. And then I got addicted. I made labels and made labels until all the stuff on my desk were ready to be filed away. Then, I headed over to the gigantic filing cabinets, opened it and realized…

The labels were made a different way.  I’d have to start all over to make all the files uniformed. Well, at least I now know how to make it.

I look at my watch, it’s only 10:30.

Good morning to me.

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