I got up a little early today, and had some time to kill before the bus would arrive to take me to class. While rearranging a closet, I remembered that I'd been given some fancy high-gloss laser printer paper, intended for printing photos. "Hmmm," thought I. "I wonder what the paper I'm turning in today would look like on really nice paper?"

So I loaded my printer with ten sheets of the stuff (eight page paper + title page + works cited) and printed out the whole shebang. It looked good. It was a bit too glossy, but the paper was very white and it made the ink look very black, giving a nice contrast.

Then I tried to staple it. My stapler just couldn't handle ten sheets of extra-heavy, high-gloss paper. The staples were skidding off the top sheet or a middle sheet, they just wouldn't go through the whole stack. I tried to force one through manually with some pliers, and ended up stabbing myself in the finger with the sharp staple tip, and bled all over my nice paper. Cursing, I tossed it in the recycle bin, went to class, and turned in the copy that I had printed last night on boring old regular paper.

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