Daily writing prompt

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

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Good evening, folks. I’m your host—reporting live to WordPress—bringing you the uninteresting news quietly shaping all of our lives.

Tonight’s top story: paper clips.

Yes, you heard me right. Those tiny silver heroes of organization are disappearing… one supply closet at a time. Reports show that every single day, an untold number of paper clips simply… vanish. Gone. Missing in action.

Are they slipping into desk drawers never to return?
Are they eloping with staplers under cover of night?
Experts have no comment—mostly because no one actually asked them.

But here at Scouring News of Uninteresting News, we dig deeper.
Because somewhere out there, someone is holding a stack of papers together with sheer hope alone… and they deserve answers.

Stay tuned after the break, where we’ll investigate another gripping mystery:
Why do all the good pens migrate to someone else’s desk?

…But wait—there’s more!—Tonight at 10: Standardized Trash Can Sizes.

In other gripping news, I’ve been locked in a years‑long battle with my own trash can.
Too big for the cabinet, too small for the week’s takeout boxes.
Every garbage day I’m there, wrestling the lid shut like I’m competing in some Olympic event called Extreme Waste Management.

So yes—between vanishing paper clips and my trash‑can triathlon, I am truly living the high drama of everyday life… and reporting live from the front lines.