Tape Dispenser

I mentioned in my previous post that I took my tape dispenser with me when I left my job last Friday.

Well, I did replace it with a tape dispenser that I had a home so I'm not actually stealing it. May sound silly but they are convenient because we have to tape slides boxes closed.

I was thinking the other day that if I had a nickel for every slide case I taped closed, or slides I put into a case or took out of a case I would be rich indeed!

Anyway, back to the story.

Here is my tape dispenser.

It's the one that was at my desk when I started in August 2003 and it's been with me to every desk I've moved to, which was at least 3 or 4. It's pretty old!

And the little tape cutter thing is pretty worn out and you have to hold the dispenser and tear from the edge to get the piece of tape off.

One day while I was on vacation, one of my coworkers was covering for me. She was complaining about my tape dispenser and how it doesn't cut the tape very well.

When I came back from vacation she told me, "Your tape dispenser doesn't work very well. I almost threw it away and got you a new one!"

I was horrified! I would have been extremely upset if she had done that, and here's why!

 This is a new box of tape (and yes, I did steal that from work! I needed it!). See the little green thing that you have to take off before using the tape?

Every time I replaced the tape I would take that little green thing and stick it to the bottom of the dispenser. I did that for the whole time  I worked there!

That is almost 17  years worth of little tape starts underneath there!

See why I had to keep it and then take it home with me?

It's no longer just a tape dispenser, it's a conversation piece and a subject for a blog entry!

Until the next time!