Forgot to add this earlier.
I was at Staples picking up ink, paper and other assorted goodies that appeal to the small-business owner and I wanted a pack of paperclips.
Not jumbo paperclips, not pretty coloured paperclips (although I have some of those) - just regular, paperclips. By that I mean the little curvy bits of silvery metal, not the big spring of black metal and two flexible arms (bulldog clip in the UK). The only option was the '10-pack' consisting of 10x packs of 100 clips all held together with impenetrable shrinkwrap.
What on earth am I going to do with 1,000 paperclips? Who uses that many clips? I can understand that a few may go missing, a couple irretrievably bent out of shape to open a locked CD-ROM drawer because you're too lazy to power the thing on, but really - 1,000?
I wouldn't object too much if they were in a nice, small box - but each 100 was packaged in a little container the size of a box of matches, so even if I only use one pack, I've still got to find a home for the other nine boxes.
Do people give them away as presents? Would you want to receive a box of paperclips as a gift?
The mind boggles. Who uses 1,000 paperclips?!?!?! Seriously, think Staples, think...
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