a long long time ago

remember a while ago, i temped at a magazine office? the second time? i was putting together a promotional mailer for the re-release of one of their magazines. it was three days to brutal labor, wrestling with cardboard boxes, peeling apart labels without easy peel backs, and bathing in a sea of plastic packages.

so it went as follows:

step one: unmask the fruit pad from its plastic package.
step two: assemble fruit to look like fruit with paperclip and netting.
step three: figure out cardboard box configuration.
step four: put two handfuls of shredded paper into box.
step five: nestle fruit into shredded paper.
step six: top with the two information cards. one with the contact info, the other with an extremely unhealthy jam recipe.
step seven: close box.
step eight: attempt to remove back from label. find that three labels have the sticky on the wrong side. fourth try reveals a usable label.
step nine: label box.
step ten: stack box.

now for picture illustration of the horrible thing.