victory over inanimate objects

I come from a long line of guys. As a result, I'm stubborn when it comes to minor repairs. I *could* hand it off to the professionals, but that's wasteful when I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself. Of course "doing it myself" has to contain either the word eventually or the phrase "without injuring myself too badly"

Today, I tackled one such project. The office shredder was jammed. efforts to unstick it proved fruitless. So I took it upon myself to finish this task, despite the pleas of my co-workers that "we can take it to staples", "come on, staples is only like 3 blocks away", and "I mean, really, you DON'T have to do this". But those quotes were from a time when I was not repeatedly jamming a pair of scissors into a shredder.

Long story short, I fixed it. The shredder runs like a dream, but looks like somebody took a pair of scissors to it. I'm calling this a victory.