Dear Humans,

We’re encouraged to use the old-school Riso machine in the work room instead of the newer copy machine because the old one’s cheaper. And that’s fine because it works…most of the time. But death, taxes, and copy machine jams.

I know every nook and cranny where a jammed piece of A4 might hide in the new copy machine. But the old machine is a mystery to me. So when it gets jammed, I walk away and revert back to the new one.

To really know something well, you have to know how to fix it when it breaks–or at least how to go about getting it fixed. When you learn to drive, you learn to change a tire and jump a battery. Because true knowledge is knowing what to do when what we normally do just doesn’t do anymore.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt