Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper
we call Who Me? in which readers' confessions are filed in the dusty shadows until rediscovered.
At the top of the creaking pile of submissions this week we found a reader we'll Regomize as"Jock" who leaned way back on his rocking chair to recount for us a story of his younger years – in the 1960s. Yes, this tale comes from the era of free love, psychedelia, and banking certificates printed on gigantic tractor-fed dot-matrix printers that could only use perforated paper. Jock worked in a bank, so on the spectrum of the cultural revolution he was more at the heavy stock end than Woodstock.
Aged 16 and keen to impress, Jock was helping the Ledgers clerk clear her desk before the Christmas break. Said clerk had to print out hundreds of end-of-year share certificates, which were delivered as"stacks of perforated, folded computer paper." Jock's role in the procedure should have been to separate the certificates and then place each in the appropriate customer files.
Unfortunately, Jock tells us, the Ledgers clerk"forgot I was new and would have no idea what she meant when she told me to 'tear up the dividend certificates'."
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