A strange thing happened at work yesterday. As I've mentioned several times before, my summer job is basically stuffing envelopes. We get contracts, "confirms," of mutual fund purchases which we attach to prospectus (books that talk about the funds) and put into envelopes and mail out. Anyway, Some of the prospectus have to be sent out with a pink card that notifies the client that the fund may be subject to some fee (forget what it is, exactly), but some don't. I'm not sure why--even though I've worked there for three years now--but it's pretty darn important that the ones that are supposed to get pink cards get them, and the ones that don't, don't.
Now, I know all this; I don't have to be told anymore which ones get pink cards and which don't; I mean, I've been working there for long enough that I'd better know, otherwise I should be worried about early onset Alzheimers. Anyway, I'm sure you can guess what I'm getting at. For some strange reason, on Thursday I apparently put pink cards in all of the prospectus that are NOT supposed to get them. That in itself isn't all too strange because I was doing the crossword while I was stapling, so my mind wasn't entirely on the job (it rarely has to be--it's not brain surgery), no, what's weird is that I distinctly recall opening up a new package of pink cards after I finished stapling all of the ones that don't need pink cards. So really there's no way I would, no could have put pink cards in because I didn't have any when I was stapling them! Unless I'm losing my mind.
There's no way anyone else would've either, except maybe the new guy, when he was putting them into envelopes (I usually just staple since I don't like "stuffing" and let my coworker, who conveniently doesn't like stapling, do the stuffing), but he didn't stuff all of them... You can tell the whole thing really bothered me, as I'm still thinking and writing about it a day later.
I know that I'm pretty forgetful most of the time, but when I clearly remember doing something, my recollection is usually pretty accurate. SIGH Guess this'll remain my personal unsolved mystery...maybe what my coworker suggested really did happen: the pink cards walked into the envelopes by themselves! ^_~
