When you drop a paper clip, do you pick it up immediately?

[Bertha Venation]

Poll question: When you drop a paper clip, do you pick it up immediately?

I don't.

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Usually,

I jump out of my chair and dive for it with my open hand outstretched, so I catch it before it hits the ground.

Usually. ;)

[Heidi]

3. Pants on fire. (nt)

[Call Me Wesley]

6. I said 'usually.' Not normally.

'Usually' I clean my bathroom.



































:hide:

[rug]

2. Only after I straighten out the remaining clips in my drawer.

[femmocrat]

4. Well, it's not like the little elves are going to come and pick it up!

Whatsa matter with you?

LOL

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. It depends on whether or not I've captured the attention...

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I've dropped it again.
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[rrneck]

7. Nope. They're too heavy.

[surrealAmerican]

8. If I don't the dog will try to eat it...

... so that would be "yes".

[Ikonoklast]

9. Not only any one that I drop, but any that I find on the flloor.

It's almost a compunction of mine...that and pens.

I am extraordinaly picky as to what type of pen I use, and get mildly upset when I find they change the style, or discontinue the type I cueently use.

Then it takes me a while to find a new type I like, and then buy a shitload of them.

After I either use them all up, or lose them, repeat the process.

It's actually pretty stressful for me when this happens.




My kids make fun of me.

[valerief]

10. If it rolls under the desk, I don't want to crouch to get it, so no. If it's handy, sometimes.

Of course, I'm doing this from memory. Who uses paper clips anymore?

[vixengrl]

11. Office supplies are sometimes hard to get hold of--

I worked a project where copies of everything had to be paper-clipped together and we had a wait (a wait!) for paperclips of a week or so. I have no explanation for how things like this happen. I broke down and got a 12 pack of 100 ct boxes from Staples. I've been bringing my own pens since forever. But every paperclip was suddenly precious. I was walking about the office with my eyes at the carpet in case I spied any dropped ones. I contemplated "borrowing" them from the desks of others.

Little things like that send me into Depression-mode ("Oh look--a bit of string! I can use that if my shoe lace breaks!") I squirrel away twist-ties from bread and plastic bags from shopping whenever I get any, too. Which is daft because otherwise I have no problems spending money--I just can't toss things that might be useful.

[HopeHoops]

12. We have three cats and two dogs - anything potentially dangerous gets picked up immediately.