Unstapled

   Today I broke the stapler.  All I did was insert a full sheaf of staples when there were already a few staples left in the track.  I don't know how that would disrupt the functioning of  a stapler, but it did.  Granted the stapler was old, at least 30 years, I would say.  And it had some rusty areas from long ago, from the water the firemen used to put out the fire in a burning house in Vestal.  Everything else in the building perished, except the humans, including all televisions and electronics.  They melted down into hardened blobs.  The stapler, being 100% metal, was undamaged, except cosmetically. What's a little rust?