I had a Red/Green moment today when I tore my skirt while bending over a filing cabinet to retrieve some CD-cases that had fallen behind the bottom drawer, onto the floor. I had on a narrow gray skirt that I’d bought just after Christmas, a cheap designer bargain issue. (I needed to wear a long skirt in order to cover the wound on my left knee, still as red as a bad 1st degree burn, which I’d recently liberated from its bandage). First I tried sewing up the tear in the skirt while in my office. However, the few needles in my travel sewing kit had eyes that were too small for me to thread, so I used transparent tape, but it wasn’t sufficiently strong to hold the torn edges together. Suddenly, the image of Red Green flashed through my mind, and I began looking for a roll of duct tape that I thought we had stashed in one of our supply cabinets. It turns out that I had given it to the workman who installed the blinds on our office windows, who had used it all up. My boss suggested I used book tape – thick black tape with a strong adhesive backing, actually superior to, but far more expensive than, duct tape. It worked brilliantly, although I was a bit embarrassed going home with a taped-up seat. At least I knew why people were staring…
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