The question has now been asked four times, in three meetings and one reply-all. The answer has been given four times, once with a diagram. By the fifth ask, the explaining department closes, and what remains is a calm face and a very short reply. A funny sarcastic shirt for the coworker who keeps the documentation, the parent on question nine of a four-hour car ride, and anyone who has typed 'as I mentioned' and meant something stronger. The diagram is still in the shared drive.

THE FINE PRINT

I’D EXPLAIN, in heavy black capitals, but I’m out of in brush script, CRAYONS in red, the script and, then PATIENCE wide in blue serif capitals. A red crayon and a blue crayon lean together beside CRAYONS. Three black stars between two curling flourishes sit underneath, everything lightly distressed.