I needed a hole punch. The kind that does ONE hole. I didn't need one of those three-hole punches that are used to punch paper to fit in a three-ring binder. Just a single hole punch so I could make little circle stickers to place on some of the audio equipment in my studio.
Do you think I could find the rarest of all hole punching artifacts, the Single Hole Punch???
This was a lot harder than it needed to be.
We went to Meijer - no hole punches at all, not even the three-hole punch that lives in a three-ring binder for punching holes in paper to fit into a three-ring binder.
(did I just divide by zero?)
Kroger - None.
Walmart - None.
(seriously, why was this so hard to find?)
I even tried CVS and Walgreen. NO ONE had a single hole punch.
You know the kind, it looks like a cross between a pair of pliers and a duck-billed platypus?
Just as I was about to call it quits and resign myself to use scissors to try to cut some sickly-looking not-exactly-perfect-shaped circles for my studio, Wifey said "Let's try Staples. It's on the way home!"
(Sometimes Jim gets so focused on things that Wifey needs to re-focus him.)
Stopped in Staples and asked the nice lady behind the counter where we'd find a hole punch. She took us to what I'm going to suddenly call the Office Gadgetry aisle and pointed them out to us.
The clouds parted, a choir of angels sun, and a beam of sunlight shined from above (ok, it was a halogen light from the ceiling, but same effect) and there they were.
Two peg hooks. One with a hole punch for $1.25, one with a hole punch for $4.00....and, this being just about the luckiest day that Jim has ever had, the $1.25 one was empty. But at least I found a single hole punch!
WHEW! FINALLY!
I was so elated that I decided to spend some more money at Staples. My wife had a pen that needed a replacement ink barrel, so I got one of those, too...because I was just feeling good. I even put a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's squids -- for the halibut.
I know it's a bit todo for a hole punch, but since we'd visited about half dozen retail locations before realizing we could have saved our selves some time and just go to an office supply store, it seemed like a much bigger accomplishment.
The lady that directed us to the platypus-shaped paper punch was very helpful, the store seemed adequately staffed, and all COVID precautions were very much in place. We've always had great shopping experiences at this Staples and have never been disappointed.
And to prove that I was successful, I'm going to upload a picture of the cross between a pair of pliers and a duck-billed platypus single-hole punch. read more