Here's the deal: you get too stressed out, and
you'll go crazy. They'll lock you up. Trust me, I know. Everyone has a
puddle of sanity in their head. Stress is like a sponge that soaks
up sanity. You don't want it to soak up all your sanity because you'll
lose your grip.
Soon everyone will start calling you names like beaver brains and chowder
head. Your only friends will be office supplies. They never laugh at
you, or call you names, or pretend like they're your friends long enough
for you to do their homework and stab you in the back while they go out to
their fancy parties for fancy people with nice clothes and slick dyed
hair, the kind of hair that all the kids try to mimic because they think
that the hair will make them cool and saucy and they listen to live and
bush, and they go to the canyons and sit around camp fires, holding hands
and singing songs like everybody else would do if they had enough time
and money or if they had a job that they didn't have to work at
night and day so they could have a few minutes to compose their thoughts
and register for school in time so they don't get jabbed with another $20
late fee that they can't pay for because they've been working long hours
for some uncaring corporate demons in a hot, humid, dirty building
with gum meaded into the carpets and feces erupting from the toilets with
a smell so pungent as to elicit vomiting if not worse, since they've been
16 years old, day after day without any rest, ever.
No, office supplies just do what they're told. They sit there quietly,
holding papers together, faxing documents or counting figures. They
almost never scream at you and demand answers you don't have. They always
follow orders, and they never talk back. They don't pretend to be nice
and full of integrity while whoring themselves out to every jerk that
comes along and woos them with their good looks. Office supplies are
friends.
399,032 people think I'm stupid.