The following conversations are verbatim. Names have been changed to protect the ignorant.

Where I work, we have a Wednesday morning staff meeting. It gives everyone a chance to catch up on what all the departments are doing. Our schedules are so crazy that it's actually pretty helpful to have these. Anyway, our director had an issue to bring up at our last meeting. He likes to put items of interest in our boxes. You read the material, write your initials on it to show you've seen it, and put in the next box to eventually be returned back to him. He was upset because he had put information regarding a grant and it didn't get back to him until past the deadline for the grant application. A legitimate complaint and he asked for our input as to how we could solve this problem.

Director: So, how can we solve this problem?

Bookkeeper: You could copy it onto colored paper so people will know it's important.

Me: You could post it in the employee breakroom.

Accountant: You could make enough copies so each person gets one.

Me: Or, you could just post one copy in the employee breakroom. You know, the room all of us go into at least once a day.

Another planner: You could do the colored paper "thing" and track it yourself and if you notice that someone has had it for awhile, you could send them an email.

Me: You know, we could just post it in the employee breakroom and track it that way.

And so on....

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So, after work Friday night, I decided to rent a few movies and spend a quiet evening at home.

Bill and Ted wannabe clerk Did you find everything you needed?

Me: Yes, I did. Thank you.

B&TWC: AWESOME! Do you have your card?

Me: Yes, right here.

B&TWC: AWESOME!

So, he rings me up and tells me how much I owe.

Me: Um, don't I have a free rental?

B&TWC:Yeah, you do. AWESOME! Do you want to use it now?

Me: Well, yes.

B&TWC: AWESOME!.

Jesus, my head hurts.