The Rolodex: Can You Find Anything In It?

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16 Sep 2006 02:57 AM

The last place I would even think to look for a phone number would be the Rolodex sitting on the desk in my home. I say this not because I am proud and want it to be the truth, but simply because it is. Can you identify? Read my sad tale below. Oh, I can find some numbers, particularly those not filed under "M" for miscellaneous, but that's only if I am not in a hurry. That way, I can pretend that I am a patient person who can take it or leave it as far as finding the number I am searching for is concerned. This illusion doesn't last very long as not only am I disorganized, I am also impatient. (It's almost as if when the powers that be were giving positive work habits out in Tennessee, I was in New Orleans.) For example, if I am trying to locate a friend of my sister's whose name is Glenda, I have a few options available to me. I can file it under the friend's name directly, and that might work. I can file it under her name, Glenda So and So, and that will only work if I remember her name. The best option however, is number three, under J for Janie's friend. I could never forget my sister's name, I don't think. ? One problem with rolodexes is that they do not come with reinforcements. I am not speaking here of armies running in to the rescue, but rather those little white circular things that keep the dear little darlings from slipping off the rolodex file and down into the abyss, which is also known as my kitchen floor. Worse, when this does happens, it's all like a silent movie, and I end up wondering where the number went without ever being able to find it again.

Do you have problems maintaining YOUR Rolodex? Can you even find it? Please share.

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