Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

It's a metaphor

I went down to the office to sort through my mail and messages. It isn't that I'm particularly important, or that my boss expects it, but for my own peace I wanted to have my priorities prioritized and my responses to last week's problems formulated before people start coming by my desk tomorrow morning looking for salt water taffy.

Ah, crap. I forgot to buy the salt water taffy.