Random thoughts
• I was getting gas the other day and of course I came across some more scary cause they’re so bad signs at the gas station. (Just to refresh your memory, I’ve also complained about the “Pumkins” sign, the “We love are business” sign and signs everywhere with misplaced apostrophes.) The newest sign on my you suck list says “We no longer except checks.” Now I know that everyone makes mistakes, but come on!
• There’s an all white deer in the woods behind my house. It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s just a little tiny baby, but I heard a couple of years ago some hunters shot one in a neighboring town because they thought it would look cool on the wall. Now, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with hunting (as long as you only shoot the big, ugly looking animals), but I hope no one shoots the cute, little deer.
• As a quick tip to anyone out there planning any form of home improvement: make sure you know where all important lines and wires are before beginning. This is of course, just a random tip and has nothing to do with any real events, but hypothetically it would suck if you were talking on the phone and it suddenly cut out because someone accidentally hit the phone line with a fence post.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Sorry, there, Jessica, but I need to correct that final sentence of paragraph 2, where you wrote, “but I hope no one shoots the cute, little deer.”
Clearly, you meant to write: “butt I hope know won chutes the cute little dear.”
Right?
Kidding, hon. I’m totally with you on the signs. If you can’t spell, don’t write things that will be seen in public.
And last night on the local news, one of the footers along the bottom of the screen, short handing the headline, had an apostrophe s to make a word plural. Big mistake. I yelled at the tv.
Maggie
November 16th, 2007 at 10:12 am
It’s ironic that you get the point the article is trying to make as shown by your example, but then comment “If you can’t spell…” It appears that in this case, and in your own example, it was the grammar you should be focused on.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I should tell you Jessica, those signs on the gas pump at Hess: “We no longer EXCEPT checks” are all over.
The same error is on the stickers at the Hess in Oneonta, the other Hess on the South Side of Norwich, and the Hess in Binghamton. I’m not sure if they are anywhere else.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Hi Jessica;
It’s hard enough to get immigrants to learn some english, but it is amazing when 12 years of schooling in the Chenango County area produces so many illiterate people. Can they get a refund from the schools? No; But I do know they do except checks!
November 29th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I also have “won” to add to your list of misspellings and improper uses of words. When the Evening Sun refers to “hay bails” in the future, I would love it if they would use “hay bales” instead since there is no such thing as a hay bail! (”The hay bale bailed water out of it’s leaky canoe.” or “How much water would a hay bale bail if a hay bale could bail water?”) Send this one on to your editor if you would like!