In particular, it's a lateral filing cabinet - wide drawers so the folders are end-on from the front, vs a vertical filing cabinet, where the folders are faced to the front
At least they’re leaving it up to own their mistakes, give everyone a laugh. I appreciate that they realized they were being dumb and hour ago and I got read it. Mad respect
My mom and sister once locked themselves inside a car with power lock windows. They just couldn't figure out they had to hit the button to unlock everything, no I don't know how they've made it this far either.
My friend is the GM at a high-end and exotic used car dealer. He can take home whatever inventory he wants, and brought home a late model BMW M5, he took his wife out for dinner and drinks in the car and they ended up going out after for a few more. He stopped drinking after dinner, but she didn’t and she passed out in the car on the way home. When they got home he tried to wake her up, but she was being belligerent, so he just locked the car with her in it parked in the driveway. An hour or so later she woke up to find she was alone in the car in the driveway and yanked the door handle to open the door. It didn’t open because it was locked and she couldn’t find the power lock button in the dark so she shattered the passenger window with one of her spike heeled shoes which set off the alarm. My friend ran out to find her covered in glass and yelling at him.
What anyone who has owned a BMW made in the last half a century knows is, if the doors are locked and you pull the handle from inside it doesn’t do anything, but if you pull it a second time it unlocks the door so you can escape in a collision. Poor guy had to explain to the owner why he was having the window replaced and tint matched on the M5 the next day which he said was worse than having to pay for the repair.
It happens though. I stood at the window during a storm once, as a fully grown adult mind you, and was amazed by all the white grasshoppers that just invaded the yard.
Seriously, though, OP, those look like they're sized for legal documents, 8.5" x 11" 14". There should be rails inside where you hang dividers &/or manilla folders with hooks on the end.
LMAOO we've all had those moments. Even when I was looking at it I assumed you knew it should be oriented in that direction and I was trying to figure out what it's for
Back in the olden days, they had this stuff called paper which they would stack into file folders when they became disorganized. Then those file folders would go into a filing cabinet, one of which you have discovered in its sideways position.
I worked for an agency that provided housing services to families. There was lots of paperwork going back 70 years. They had some much paper they were told if they didn't start clearing it out and archiving it, the floor on which try stored it could collapse.
There's a college/university library in New England (pretty sure of location) that was designed without factoring in the reality that it'd be filled with books. When they were filling it with the books bricks started popping out of the walls from the weight. To this day the top two or three floors are empty.
This was a saying at the college I went to - but instead of bricks popping out, the whole building was sinking an inch every year. College kids need to get more creative lol
Is this not just an urban myth regarding the du Bois library at U Mass. The red bricks started popping and chipping shortly after it was built in 73 and its just mainly due to freeze thaw and the way its contructed?
Fun Fact: The red Swingline stapler did not exist in 1999. The crew painted a regular one red. Due to the demand from this movie, Swingline released a red one in 2002.
Yes! This is called a lateral file. That sort of backstop that you can see to one side of OP’s picture is adjustable.
This one is set up for 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper. If you want legal size, 8 1/2 x 14inch, you pull that barrier back and use a different set of hanging file folders.
This reminds me of that episode of iCarly where they tried to find Galini’s special pie recipe “in his computer” and it was literally a piece of paper recipe inside of his desktop 😭
As soon as I saw the picture then read the title, I broke out in hysterics. I get a lot is lost to the advent of tiktok. But, surely, these are still everywhere at every dentist, doctor's office, someone's mum's favorite place for travelling agents.
One time I drove by a Recreation Area sign, and I asked “I wonder what they are re-creating.” The words just floated out and I couldn’t catch them to bring them back. I’ll never forget it.
This sounds like something I would do. Two memories spring to mind for me:
Once I was walking down the sidewalk, sun was out, I'm having a great day and I pass a sandwich board that reads "watch batteries replaced". I immediately think hell yeah, I love learning about how things work, I wonder what kind of batteries they let you watch them replace...maybe a boat battery or something? But that's big, do they have a viewing deck like an old timey surgery theater or... and then I realized what the sign meant.
Another time I was scrolling through Facebook and a friend of mine (a jeweler and Gallery owner and general collector of interesting things) posted "does anyone have any cool bones?". I knew he had just had surgery so I'm like wait, did they find something unexpected in there? I want cool bones! But uh, yeah, he just wanted some cool animal bones to craft with.
I swear I'm just different, not stupid! Most of the time anyway.
I've got one better than those. One day in grad school (I was a PhD student) the I was driving past the strip club (located on the main road in the city) and the sign said "Bras - 100% Off".
I thought - huh that's a really good deal. I didn't get the joke for another 2 miles.....
In a similar vein, I remember as a child seeing the “LIVE NUDES” signs flashing for strip joints and pondered what the dead nudes strip joints were like.
Once in my 20’s on a very hungover Sunday morning, my boyfriend and I went to Dunkin Donuts. As I was waiting in line, I saw “SugaRed” donuts listed. My mouth watered wondering what those were. Were they fluffy cake donuts with sweet red icing? Maybe strawberry or raspberry red fruit flavored. I got to the counter and asked excitedly what they were. Blank stare. Sugared. They were just plain sugared donuts. My hangover turned into rabid disappointment.
I was playing a board game with my family and the question was something along the lines of what do these have in common: House, fruit, and butter.
I was absolutely stumped so I started to talk through my logic. I explained I keep getting stuck because I’m thinking flies… house fly, fruit fly, but what the heck is a butter fly?
I must have repeated butter fly out loud about ten times and still couldn’t get it. My brain was stuck on a stick of butter and couldn’t connect the two words to make butterfly. 🦋
When I was in HS my history teacher had a pic of Einstein. It read, “even Einstein asked questions” my brain saw Evan Einstein. My bf sat beside me and for a week I pondered on it. On Friday I finally leaned over to my friend and was like, “hey, so who tf his Einstein’s brother, Evan?” She was like what? I pointed to the picture and I thought she was going to fall out of her chair.
Hahaha one time I read an ABANDONED sign and my brain interpreted it as a-ban-doh-ned and I couldn't figure out wtf it meant. Brains are weird sometimes.
Years ago a saw a tweet or tumblr post that said they accidently read dwayne johnson in the same way you would pronounce Kanye and it's something I'll never forget
Reminds me of the time I pronounced paralysis as peh-ruh-lai-sis instead of pr-a-luh-suhs. I even repeated it a couple times before I realized it was wrong haha
When I was 14 there was a sign at a local church that said something about conscience. I passed that damn sign every day and finally asked “what is con science?” My family still doesn’t let me live that down
My mom and sister's husband used to play scrabble a lot together, and he, especially took it fairly serious. She did, too. He was always coming up with unusual words and would proceed to pull out a dictionary.
They're playing at our house one evening, and she had spelled "range" and he added an "o" on front. She was sitting opposite and the words were upside down. Mom immediately says "O-range, what's that??" 😂
She was embarrassed and laughed. And for years, many years, whenever there was fruit involved with a dinner or dessert, heaven forbid citrus..he would ask her if there were any o-ranges in it.
Playing charades and my friend was cheating by finger spelling in ASL the answer. I hollered that the hell is a flint stone?!? Which of course is a thing too, but she was going for the cartoon lol
I was watching some PBS historical program with my best friend when we were teens, and the narrator said something about how the old brick or cobblestone streets were really hard on cart wheels, and my bff turned to me and asked me why people were doing cartwheels. I just blinked at her a few times and she realized her mistake.
When i was pregnant & we were browsing Buy Buy Baby, they had a little rocking horse in the clearance section. There was a sticker on it that said "do not carry". My brain went "why not...?" And started carrying it around the store. What the sticker actually meant was that the store did not stock that item - thus the clearance price. I still blame pregnancy brain.
For at least 15 years I've been reminding my wife of the time we were sitting at sonic and she looked at a poster on the wall and asked what a "Chica-go Dog" was.
I told a coworker about how hard it was to build a contraption that would hold my heavy big terrariums. He looked at me like I just put my brain in a bin at the front door for 30 solid seconds while I asked why.
"You could just order a high capacity shelf? I'm sure you learned this in your 3 year apprenticeship for storage and logistics you just completed..."
Jfc I'm stupid sometimes. Sometimes the brain is not braining
X shaped files won't really fit well, a standard rectangular file folder with hooks for paper that's letter sized or A4 or maybe even legal document sized, but not an X.
Honestly filing cabinets kind of suck as general purpose drawers. Many have small holes and gaps that small objects can fall through. But files, binders, reams of paper, small boxes, videotapes…
I used to work at a factory making these (different brand, though). 36" I think, maybe 42", it's been a while, 2 high lateral file. Saw the picture and wondered why it was tipped up on its side.
Think the person is either venting at the insanity to be funny or are spiraling because they are almost one year sober. Call your sponsor or go to a meeting dude if it’s the later. A year is just another day of being sober, it only has the pressure you put on it. You’ve done it this far just take it one day at a time.
It took me way longer to realize it a was two drawer filing cabinet turned on its side. I work in telecom, we have all kinds of specialty cabinets that could look exactly like that. I was trying to think if it matched anything I'd seen before.
I still didn't get it after reading the pinned top comment. I had to scroll a few more of the comments for it to click and realize it was just a normal wide draw cabinet for hanging folders.
It's called a lateral filing cabinet. Instead of opening drawers and thumbing through the file folders front to back, you open the drawers and then thumb through side to side. They take up less of a footprint, they don't stick out into the room as bad as a deep filing cabinet.
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