My desk is a mess.
My boss at the radio station will agree, it’s atrocious.
I have always been the messy desk type, though. It’s a problem I have dealt with my whole desk-using life, and have never been able to get the best of, despite my mother’s best efforts!
I try to clean it up every so often, but it just keeps getting cluttered until even I can’t take it any longer.
I think I know what my issue is: I am a closet pack rat. I can’t help it.
If I go to throw something out, it’s gone forever, and I might just need this phone number that I have only used once in my five years at The Breeze. Or that email address. Or that message from that guy who really only wanted to sell me something. I might need to get a hold of him for whatever reason.
It’s an illness, a malady, a affliction for which there is no cure, and I must come to terms with it: I am a messy desk person.There, I said it. Phew, boy am I glad to get that off my chest!
As a child, and my father will be GLAD to tell you this story, I would complete my homework, take it out of my backpack at school and stuff it in my desk. No, I wouldn’t turn it in. My parents would then come to school for parent-teacher conferences, and see the mayhem that was my desk. They would sift through the wreckage that I had jammed in there, and find WEEKS worth of work, just waiting to be turned in.
I have sore throat lozenges, which in my given profession can be a necessity, ketchup packets, CD’s, my pocket knife (which the boss LOVES to tell me belongs in my pocket), magazines, rubber bands, and so on and so forth in my desk drawers. On the top, there is a small stackable tray that I can only assume is for “In/Out” purposes, but I have never been able to master THAT concept, a pen filled cup, a calculator, my computer monitor and speakers (gotta have THOSE) a phone, my stapler and an absolute MOUND of papers that serve little to no purpose whatsoever.
But I can’t throw them out just yet. I haven’t gotten frustrated with them enough to discard this current crop of desk detrius.
Besides, everything is right where it should be, and I know what is in each pile. (If you believe that, I have a great deal I’d like to talk to you about involving either time-share in Florida, or a purchase option for the Brooklyn Bridge…)
Ben Cox is the morning show host of “Ben Cox in the Morning” on KQBZ, 96.9 FM in Brownwood Texas. He is the new in-stadium voice of the Howard Payne Yellow Jackets football team, & Ben is also an event DJ for weddings, parties and the like, and can be contacted through the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce.
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