Waldorf, one of our resident Muppets here at the Muppet Daily News, needs more paperclips.
In her amazingly challenging task of doing tearsheets (reference many, many earlier blog entries on that subject), she needs to paperclip the copies of the ads to the invoices.
But alas, she needs more little paperclips.
She looks on the "supply shelves" in the office. Nope, doesn't see any there.
Which is strange, since I know they're there.
She sees the "Jumbo" paper clips, but not the regular sized ones.
And she wants/needs the regular sized ones.
Waldorf (standing in front of the shelves): "I don't see any little ones."
Me: Are you sure? I know they're there.
Waldorf (staring again at the shelves): "No, I checked. There are jumbos, but no regular sized ones."
Me (knowing we just got in 10 boxes of them): "Waldorf, did you check all the shelves?"
(**please note there are only four shelves, about 5 inches deep and maybe, at most 3 feet wide... we're not talking cavernous area to check)
Waldorf: "Yes I looked. They aren't here."
So I walk over to the shelves. There, on the third shelf (which is just slightly above eye level for the average height Muppet, and Waldorf is average height) sits a group of ten boxes of "normal" paperclips.
Me: "Umm.. Waldorf? They're right there."
Waldorf: "Oh ... (pause) ... thank you. I didn't look up. I only checked this shelf" (pointing to the one that was at eye level).
Oh yeah, vacation is over. I'm back ... sigh.
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