Well, not really.
I was reminded of this when I was in work the other day as somebody had written the words ‘intentionally left blank’ on a whiteboard. Feelings of horror filled me, as I remembered the days when I had to sit through the exams in school, and most, if not all, of the papers had at least one of these intentional blank pages.
I always wondered what would happen if I wrote something on the page? Would an alarm sound in the classroom and a red light shine upon me for not keeping the page blank? Would the paper self destruct and I would instantly fail the test? Or would my desk, chair, paper, and myself be dropped through a hole in the floor that suddenly appeared, into a chute that would send me out of the school and into a dungeon where I would have to spend the rest of my days?
I never wrote on the intentionally left blank page, so never got to see which of my thentasies (see dictionary!) would come true.
Other official things where I used to think that some unimaginable fate would be in store for me included writing something in a box marked ‘for official use only’; writing something in blue ink where the instruction, in bold print, was to use black ink; entering two letters into a space intended for one letter in (for example) a name and address section on a form; and selecting two items from a list when the directive was to select one.
There is something odd about official forms that affects me, that brings out the devilish side of me, but luckily for me I never give in to that inner devil. OK, I do at times, for other things (such as pressing big red buttons that say ‘do not press’!), but not when it comes to completing official forms.
So, there it is.
Official.
Good guys have inner devils. Quite a revelation in a post that was meant to have been left blank intentionally…
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