Well, you know that they probably needed the reading material!


Cheryl Garrett
California Department of Water Resources
ECM Project Team
Sacramento, CA


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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:14 AM
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Subject: Re: Looking for RIM Humor

Ginny wrote:

"I often wonder at the logic used in one of our old facilities where
they had cases of toilet paper stored in the vault and boxes of records
stored on wooden shelves in the Men's Room."

I know, I know, I know!!!

Many years ago when I was a field archivist for the Texas State Archives
I was in the Walker County Courthouse with the County Clerk, James
Patton.  He took me to a storage room where there were several units of
the old fashion Woodruff-Green narrow file drawers.  He opened on and
took out a case file on a lawsuit between Sam Houston and a neighbor.

And then I noticed a padlocked door and asked what treasurers could
possibly be there.  Mr. Patton grabbed a passing custodian who opened it
to reveal the courthouse's toilet paper supply.

The explanation was that the county already had the Sam Houston
documents but had to continue buying toilet paper.

Paul R. Scott CA, CRM
Records Management Officer
Harris County, TX

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