I realize that when you come here to read my little anecdotes it is your choice, and therefor is not such a bad thing that I subject you to whatever oddity pops into my head. But what happens when the unsuspecting populous has this type of inane humor hoist upon them? Well, I’ll let you decide.

The other day I went to Office Max with my wife and son to pick up a paper shredder. I have a lot of important documents that need to be shredded before being thrown away, I don’t want the bums to eat them. So we’re at Office Max and one of the salespeople comes up to help me. I ask him where the shredders are and he takes me over to them and I ask him to see something in the twenty dollar range. So we walk over to the shredder that was $19.95 and I start to take a look at it. It looks very nice, I think this should do the job nicely. I start looking at the top and I see the usual warnings. The circles with lines through them letting you know that it won’t do paperclips, spray cans, and… oh wait… this won’t do. I notice the circle with the line through a hand and I say to the very helpful gentleman, “This one won’t do hands. I need one that will do hands.” This poor guys eyes got about two sizes larger and he asked nervously “What?!” Of course my wife being entirely too used to my odd sense of humor immediately tells me to shut up, apologizes to the employee and we picked it up and checked out.

It’s probably fortunate for the guy that my wife was there. Based on his expression I could have milked that for a good five minutes at least. Oh well, maybe when I pick up a new stapler.