Helping students

This morning I got the following email:

HI 

I am trying to get your stapler open but it wont budge. How do you open this thing?

(Context: I lent a student my stapler for the weekend so that they could work on their bulletin boards for the residence hall they are an RA for)

This is the email I sent back:

There is a little latch on the side that looks like this (I hope you like my paint drawing…)