Monday, September 12, 2005

The Midwest prevails again...

I have noticed that a lot of people when emailing at work either choose not to proofread before they send an email or do not understand the meaning of proofread...for example, this is a direct email I received the other day from a co-worker (disregard work lingo, just focus on the grammar):

"With looking in BAAN it don't show anything on this order # ever shipping exceptfreight."

If you are reading this and going, WOW...then I am not alone!


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Let me first preface this next story with this: I work with an abundance of older people almost elderly...so today, I am sitting in my cubicle minding my own business when one of the older ladies walks by my cube to get to the printer and on her quest to retrieve her freshly printed documents out it comes...that's right ladies and gentlemen--she farted and it wasn't a quiet one either...oh no...just let it rip, loud and proud and with every step she took more and more kept leaking out! Can I tell you how hard it was for me to not burst out into laughter right there! It makes my side hurt just thinking about it!

3 comments:

Judy said...

How funny, let er rip granny! hope it didn't smell....haha

amanda said...

ah, the tortures of professionals with bad grammar.

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my calculus class in college was team-taught by a middle-aged woman and an old man. when the woman was teaching, the old man would sit in the back of the class and rip one about every 20 minutes or so. allegedly, he was on meds that caused this. i'm not sure about that. but man, sometimes it was hard not to react!

Jen said...

That's awesome! LOL! I like the "allegedly"...that is my favorite word! LOL!