34. Death by spiral notebook

My boss comes over to my cubicle and asked me to punch holes in a stack of papers that I recently printed out for him. While he was at my cube he was trying to think of the word 'tabs' and/or 'separators'... as in the thing you put in three-ring binders that separates the papers into different sections:

While my boss was racking his brain for those words he mentioned the 'Trapper Keeper'. PS remember trapper keepers?

Anyway, his mentioning the trapper keeper got the two people in the cubicles next to mine (If you refer back to 11. Don't talk to me... please this would be Darren and Lisa) talking about the different forms of notebooks they used back in grade school i.e. 3 ring binders, spiral notebooks, marble notebooks etc. PS remember marble notebooks?

At one point during their reminiscing Darren goes, "...hahah you could remove the spiral from the spiral notebook and make a shiv out of it." Oh really Darren? REALLY? This is what you remember from your GRADE SCHOOL days?

Needless to say... I think I'll make it a point not to stray near his cubicle from now on.