The Bond. Bond Paper!

Before I picked the boy up at his school yesterday, I went to Staples (an office supply store) to buy a few things--bond paper, ink for the printer, and a few rolls of clear packaging tapes. 

The set up of the store seemed new to me since the last time I was there was probably last year in July.

I just wanted to finish my errand as quick as I could because I don't want the boy to wait long outside of the school on a very cold day. 

A gray haired tall Caucasian male sales clerk offered to help me with the ink. Thank God because I forgot what was the exact type of ink that's compatible with our printer. He asked me if I needed anything else too, and...

Me: Do you know where's the bond paper?
Him: I'm sorry?
Me: Bond paper! I don't know where to find it in this store!
Him: What was that again?

Me: Bond paper!

Completely clueless of what I was asking for, I showed him a whole piece of white paper where I printed the 20% off coupon that I was going to use on my check out!

Him: Oh! You mean copy paper!

What?! No one informed me that the term bond paper is obsolete already.  Or was the term never used in America back in the day?

Today, I told my daughter about my experience yesterday, she shared that one time her father asked her about Xerox paper, and she had no clue what it was. Hehehehe. 

Now I know that in America it is called a copy paper or a multipurpose paper.

On my way to the counter to pay for my stuff, I saw this camera post-it dispenser. I wanted it, but I don't need it. So, I didn't buy it. When I looked closely at the photo today, that was when I realized it was on sale for a half off.

 

P.S. The clerk gave me the wrong ink, and I had to come back today to exchange it for the right one. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.