None of Your Business

In her fifth floor government office she worked with reams of paper daily, sending them to the clerk's office separated with paperclips. The clerk's office filed the papers, filling boxes of paperclips. One day she stood at the box filling pockets with clips she had sent. A bottom-of-the-barrel elected official saw, told her she should order them from supplies. Had she been schooled in program talk, she would have told him, "What I do is none of your business!"