The very worst thing you can find when you open your mail — well, OK, the second worst thing, right behind finding an unidentified white powder — is a set of contention interrogatories.

“For each action of defendant that you contend constitutes a breach of contract, state with particularity and exhaustive, picky detail each and every fact, identify each and every document (by Bates numbering, Universal Product Code and Dewey decimal number), describe each oral communication (by detailed content, date, participant, outside temperature and tone of voice), and identify the precise paragraph, section number, phrase and type font of the contract that supports or contradicts your contention.”