Do as I say, not as common sense dictates

For those who wonder why I would inflict this job upon myself when I so obviously loathe it, here is a small example of the rare and brilliant moments of sublime ridiculousness that I live for:

Let us set the scene with the characters:

My boss (big important partner in international law firm)
Me (office flint)

The task - My boss thrust 4 receipts at me this afternoon and hurriedly told me to photocopy them 'onto one page' to accompany a letter to the police for removing his bike that was parked in the street 'as it posed a security risk'. The receipts were so the police knew how much to reimburse him for his taxi fee and accompanying costs such as replacing the bike lock (let's not even start on how much I love the blind confidence of a man who demands the Metropolitan Police Force give him a refund for inconvenient expense).

The letter has been edited three times: once to cross out the demand that they apologise, twice to add his email address and thrice to remove said email address.

I handed him the final draft of the letter together with the photocopies which were on TWO sheets of paper as they could just not be fitted onto one page as suggested. Some employers would commend my initiative on this action.

Here's what I got from my boss:

'No no no nooooooo. I wish you'd listen to me. I said photocopy them onto ONE page. Why don't you listen?'

'Because they don't fit on one page'

'Well bring it to me FIRST and I'LL then tell you to put it on two pages'

I kid you not.

I feel like I'm in my own cynical comic strip at times. Dilbert gone psycho. He did end up apologising and saying he was just very stressed out at the moment.

But I know it's not stress that makes him a complete and utter nobhead.