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A week of workdays with Monday's problem surfacing four days late on Friday.

You find out on Friday what went wrong on Monday

A guest list with more empty reply boxes than ticks.

You still don't know how many are coming

A shelf of past documents with one paragraph pulled out of them.

You've written this clause before. Somewhere.

A hurried handwritten note with half a name on it, above an empty client file.

A new client called and nobody wrote it down properly

A signed lease with the end date circled, months after it passed.

The lease expired and nobody noticed

One flagged message pulled clear of a row of ordinary ones and held up.

The real emergency was behind eleven routine messages

A calendar page stuck on March with later months waiting blank behind it.

You haven't posted since March

A catering enquiry note with Saturday circled on the calendar behind it and the quote still blank.

Forty people, Saturday, and no quote yet

A stack of documents with one line on one page lit up inside it.

The answer is in one of these two hundred files

A message in one language and its finished reply in another, one above the other.

They wrote in Spanish and you replied a week later

A faded till receipt beside a card payment on a statement, the two not yet matched.

Your accountant wants the receipts. Again.

An open diary with a page of enquiries beside a page of empty slots, one viewing booked.

"Interested" turned into nothing. Again.