A few days after returning from our mission, both Pepper and I were called to new positions in our ward. I’m a clerk, which means I’m responsible for exciting things like finances and recordkeeping. I was given a key to the church office, and went in to scope it out. I found this shelf of ancient tomes:
Wow. A book about MS-DOS! That pre-dates Windows. And WordPerfect? My favorite word processor, dating back to the mid-1990s. These are the manuals we’re keeping in the office. It’s funny not only because these books are for software that’s thirty years old and long gone, but because other people in the church (previous clerks, ahem) are afraid to throw them away. “But we might need it!” they cry. You’d hate to get rid of something and then find that you need it, right?
Well, I think these will be safe to toss. I guess it’s time for the new clerk to do some cleaning…