If you are the sort of person who likes to do a good job then you will relate to the difficulties inherent in being a rubber stamp. We often feel we are treated badly by our human beings. When we wake up in the morning and are ready to do the work a stamp does we look at some of the documents we stamped yesterday and feel sad. Most of the impressions we made look bad because our human being was in such a hurry and just wanted to get it over with, so many of the impressions look bad because our human being had no respect for their rubber stamp’s feelings.

One common problem is that the impressions are not placed where they ought to have been placed on the document. This is often compounded by the fact that the stamp was not inked properly so the impressions look very faint or lop-sided. In many cases no other human beings would ever be able to read the text.

But how can I do a good job, when my human beings use a completely dry ink pad when I am inked? Why is it my human beings do not think of quality when they use me to stamp their documents? Being a simple stamp I know I can not do the job nearly as good as a self inking rubber stamp but as I see it that makes it even more important I am treated the right way and like human beings I, being a simple stamp, also want to be proud of what I do. But I am not in control to do a nice rubber stamp impression on the many documents I work on every day. I depend on being used the right way.

Like for example yesterday! When I look at the otherwise very professional looking documents I worked on, I am not proud. You would think my human beings would have an interest to use me, their rubber stamp, in the best possible way so I do not spoil these very good looking and expensive documents – but no. They do not care at all. They have used that stupid ink pad laying there next to me for so many years. It is completely dry and when I hit it I feel bad because I know I am not getting any ink on my rubber so I can do a good job on the document I am to stamp. Most likely the ink pad feels as bad as I do and probably would like not to be used any more.

I am old and I am ready to go and I do not want to be here anymore. I wish I was able to talk and tell my human beings not to use me but instead get a modern self inking stamp that always does a good impression. I am looking forward to the day I am thrown in the bin but knowing how my human beings think I would not be surprised if they just replaced me with another cheap rubber stamp.