Stamp This

The end of the semester brings out the ridiculousness in students.

A student walks into the department and asks Pat to stamp his paper received.

"Sure," replies Pat, "What professor is it for?"

"Actually it's for a professor in another department," The student replies.

"Oh....ok," Pat hands the paper back, "Take it to that department."

"Well, there's no one there."

"They should have a drop box or something if students are able to turn things in to the department," Pat has no idea why the student would come here in the first place and why he is not taking no for an answer.

"Yeah, but there's no one there to stamp it with the time. I need it stamped." The student seems to think that it is then Pat's responsibility to step in here.

Pat picks up her stamp, "This stamp is for this department. I stamp things and then I take them from the student and put it in the professor's box. I don't hand it back to the student...."

Phyllis is impatient just listening in, "We DON'T stamp for other departments. Sorry."

The student turns his pleading eyes back to Pat.

"Listen, this stamp means that it was received by our department- not another one. My stamping your paper is not going to help you. You could slap a random thing on there and it would mean about the same thing. It is never going to mean that it was received by that other department."

The student leaves disappointed. Ok.....now that was just silly.