Daily story, March 10, 2025

Erase the tapes. We need the space. It’s true, I’m sure, but all the same I wonder: why make space on these tapes, and not others? Who tears the labels from them before they are handed to me? Why are some of us fired and others forgiven for the same transgressions? Why aren’t similar facts about different people in the same transmissions? Today, I came prepared with blanks in my bag, their labels stuck on and torn off again. I pop the write-protect tabs off the condemned cassettes, and make the exchange.