Sticky Business:
I had to go and print some more pictures today (Wednesday - it’s 3:05am Thursday as I write this), for some more of those greeting cards. I was also ‘suppossed’ to print my name onto labels to stick on the back of the cards. I thought I’d just go to the local computer store, pick up some Avery or HP self-adhesive labels, take ‘em to the office, print ‘em, stick ‘em, and be done with it. No sireee…
The closest the computer store had to anything that resembled labels was iron-on shirt design transfers. No biggie I thought, as I made my back to the car. and then headed for the office. Stuck in traffic for close to an hour gave me plenty of time to review the situation. I decided I’d just order some labels out of the stationery catalog at the office.
After eventually arriving at work and finding what I wanted in the catalog, I ended up having to go to the store to pick up the stuff, because neither our firm or their firm had and couriers available to deliver/pick-up the stuff. Having called the store to that they actually have the product in stock, I headed back into the city centre… At the store, the product was ‘out of stock’, running out of time to get this item off my list of tasks, I spared the store manager’s ears of the verbal beating I was fully prepared to hand out. Scouring the shelves for alternative, it became apparent that sheets of self-adhesive printable labels just aren’t a common item over here.
Back at work, I decided that IWA would just have to try and sell the cards on their own merit, and without the ‘pull’ of my name on the cards themselves [feels head begin to swell]
At home this evening, I was digging in the office supplies closet for a notepad, when lo’ and behold: I just happen to come across a box full of Esselte labels of just the right size!
