Seven Copies For Seven People

(This is the 80s, and my first real job in an office.)

Boss: “Please make me 7 copies of this document.”

(I go and do that.)

Boss: “Great, now please fax them to these 7 people.”

Me: “What do you want me to do with these after I fax them? Should I file them in each recipient’s file? These are not people we would normally have files on…”

Boss: “No, just throw them away. I just needed them faxed to those people.”

Me: “Then why didn’t I just fax the original to each of them?”

Boss: “…That was dumb of me, wasn’t it?”