Have any of YOU ever suffered a severe papercut, while delivering an overly stiff Note?
Ever withstood the pricks and stabs of over stuffed paperclips or bent staples?
What about strained muscles from carrying White Papers from office to meeting after meeting, to yet other offices?
Sprained wrists & carple tunnel from backslapping & handshaking for hours at a time?
Writer's cramp?
I thought not!
Diplomacy is a dangerous, thankless task, fraught with perils of which you know naught!
Those in the Diplomatic Corps recognize they who serve in front of the buffet lines, and in the trenchers of State Dinners, risking clogged arteries, cirrhosis of the liver, or that fate worse than death, laryngitis, have the most difficult, thankless role of all
They sometimes wish for the simple life of ease of a soldier at a forward fire-base...but then the dinner gong duty calls them back to Reality.