She asked.

She asked why I had an array of staplers.



"Well" I said "Because one was giving to me by Fred I."

"I don't know Fred I," she said. Which didn't surprise me because she wasn't working in our office when my former boss was around. Fred was the boss when I was hired in 1995.

"The problem is: his stapler doesn't work all that well so I have that one in the middle but one day someone stole that one so I went to the copy room and took that other one."

"So, you need to keep them all?"

"Well, it doesn't seem right to get rid of Fred's and I actually use the one in the middle and the third is for when the middle one gets stolen again."

She then said, "I see," as she walked away.

I think she regretted asking.