Monday, January 25, 2010

You're grammer sux


I have always taken pride in using correct grammar. I am not saying that I don't make occasional mistakes, but they are never as obvious as the ones I see on printed signs. Most programs have spell check. FACEBOOK has freaking spell check. If for some reason you don't catch it on the computer, how did someone else not notice it before you put it up for everyone to see?? One time at Krispy Kreme I saw they had friut on the menu. Not fruit... friut. How did that sign make it all the way to the side of a building without anyone catching that? Mistakes like the one in this picture drive me absolutely insane. NO APOSTROPHE WAS NECESSARY. Other things that people cannot seem to get right: you're vs. your, too vs. to, it's vs. its and other things that were included in the lesson plans of every fourth grade teacher. Just thinking about this is making me mad all over again.

Oh, and by the way...this sign was in the Chick-fil-A located in the Auburn University student center. I can think of no better place than a campus of higher education to display a mistake like that.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Men Wearing UGG Boots


I'm sorry, but if you are a man and you own a pair of UGG boots, you should find the receipt and return them. I was shopping this past weekend and there in the middle of the Polo section in Belk was a man with long, grey hair wearing jeans TUCKED INTO HIS UGG BOOTS. Yes, I used tucked in and UGG boots in the same sentence as the word man. This should never happen. As soon as I saw him, I immediately told my sister to get picture confirmation. So she stalked him around the store, getting extremely close to him and eventually producing an acceptable photo, which I have attached. As someone brought up, the boots could be acceptable in arctic temperatures where warm boots are necessary to live or whatever. People, that was not the case with this man. WE WERE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALA. I was horrified. My sister was horrified. You should be horrified.