Guy Hides His Staple Addiction, Family Thinks He's A Junkie

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mattstaff
Jul 10, 2019 12:00 AM EDT

Sometimes you just absolutely love breaking apart staples...to the point that it convinces your alarmed family around you that there could be something darker, more ominous, and potentially drug-infused afoot. 

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    Text - r/tifu u/throwaway194333 9h 4 S 12 1 TIFU by hiding my staple addiction and making my family think I was a heroin junkie L Ever since I was a kid, I loved to fiddle around with staplers. Playing with the automatic ones and doing dumb stuff like any child would opening the manual ones and swinging it around, stuff like that. One of my favorite things to do was to open up a new staples and break them apart before putting them in. Running my fingers through the staples, counting them and bre
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    Text - Fast forward to present day. I am a functioning middle- class adult with a wife and two children. I have a home, a normal car, an office job. I am by all accounts a normal human being... I still love staples. Working in an office with a supply room full of staples was a problem. I'd spend my lunch break in the room opening boxes and breaking apart staples to get my fix before returning to work. It got so bad over the course of a couple years that my boss changed our supplier because the b
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    Text - This past Thursday after one of my "late nights" I get home with a trunk full of broken staples and 10 freshly broken boxes in my passenger seat to see my parents cars at my house. I walked in and everyone is sitting around like its an intervention. Because it is. My wife asked if there was anything I wanted to tell them, and to tell the truth about my problem. I sat down and kept saying "what are you talking about" until my mom said "honey, we saw the pictures". Then my wife tells me tha
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    Text - Believe it or not, I think therapy may help, as my wife gave me these suggestions the day after. I may or may not do that, but the good news is I now can have a "staple hour" once I get home and my budget for staples is allowed by the wife for now. or addiction meetings TLDR: I have an addiction to breaking apart staples and my wife thought I was on drugs when it became a problem.
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