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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