My worst nightmare...

I have just finished availing myself of the copy machine here at Corporate America to make a photocopy of part of a manuscript. In addition to my fears of getting caught (though I actually got permission to do this...a long time ago), I'm always afraid of leaving behind just that one sheet of paper. And not just any sheet, but one page from the scene. In this particular manuscript, there are several such scenes, thus increasing the odds that the page left behind will be part of one that would likely shock some poor harmless co-worker in the morning. And maybe get me in trouble.

Next worse fear? That the copier will somehow jam up and either: a) my pages will get caught in the mechanism, forcing a call to the service guy who will then show them to whoever called and complained about the jam, or b) that the scanner part of machine will take in all my pages but then refuse to spit the copies out, until someone comes in the next morning and jiggles some switch and they all come pouring out.

Now, imagine any or all of that happening with a super hot love scene and you will understand why I have now made two trips to each of the copiers I used (best not to be in one place for too long, you see) to make sure nothing was left behind.

So far, so good...but I'll probably have to check one more time before I leave. Huh. I wonder what the symptoms are for the official onset of OCD. : )