I'm sorry but I'm filing some papers tonight and I know that we all end
up over time assembling a haphazard filing system of folders and labels
and tab locations and ink colors and even handwriting samples if random
family members step in and label a few folders for us here and there and
the folders all end up getting creased and faded and dog-eared anyway
so there's eventually some semblance of a cohesive visual order in the
chaos and maybe one or two folders are labeled for
random one-off documents that you're not sure if you should file or
throw away so you make a folder and you file them just in case but you
promptly forget all about them until years later when you're trying to
file some other odd document like a supplemental life insurance brochure
or an autographed photo of Scott Baio and you stumble on your forgotten
one-off folders again and you take a last heartbroken peek at Chachi
for old time's sake before you file him into batshit obscurity but the
point is YOU TRY TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE SURE YOUR FOLDER
LABELS MORE OR LESS MATCH but then you're innocently searching through
your folders like I am tonight and without even a drop of warning you're
out of nowhere broadsided by one of those long-forgotten one-off
folders that your mom not only labeled URINE FILES but she also
HIGHLIGHTED IT IN YELLOW in some cruel belabor-the-obvious attempt to
humiliate you in your own filing cabinet which of course sends you
spiraling into a self-medicating vortex of cookies and Diet Coke which
of course just eventually makes you have to pee which of course just
swirls around and around on itself until you're flush out of dignity and
self-esteem and URINE FILES what the hell and like I said I'm sorry but
URINE FILES.
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