alright, i posted an FB status update that has since gone awry. so i am here to elaborate and get yet more of my frustration out…
i have very few pet peeves. yes, most of what society as a whole does drives me nuts and if you have read my blog before you know that i get a smidge frustrated and maybe love to gripe. what can i do? i am good at it.
most things that seriously bother me are day to day spelling issues.
for the love all that is holy, the word is spelled D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-LY. definite is the root word, not definat. which is not even a word. so your DEFINATLY is definitely wrong.
whats more, i HATE when businesses misspell words for alliteration or cool purposes. or when they just get lazy. i can already see to idiots back in the fifties standing in their fast food parking lot…
“hey, joey, do we want people to drive threw or drive through?”
“how the hell should i know, i just cook burgers!”
“alright, we will just tell them to drive thru. welcome to Krazy Kats Burger Barn, please drive thru.”
the most subtle form of the dumbing down of America thriving today.
but here is the one that really gets me. i get invitations to parties all the time. and every once in awhile someone gets this awesome idea and they think to themselves, “man, we should do it every year!” that is fantastic. i am sure i would come every year if you had a toga tricycle triathlon around your condo complex pool. but for pete’s sake (never sure which pete i am helping when saying that) DO NOT have a FIRST ANNUAL TRI-TOGA-THON!
by the way, i just came up with that off the top of my head and i am going to see about that…
if there is one thing i learned in college, and this very well might be the ONE thing i learned in college, you cannot have a first annual anything.
you have to do something once before you can do it again. that being the case, you have an inaugural something the first time and then you have a second annual what have you the next year. your event has to lose it virginity.
they didn’t make Rocky 1 and then come out with Rocky II (yes kevin, i know that the first star wars was the fourth episode. but that gene rodenberry was nuts. kidding george lucas.).
worse off is when professional people put on events and do this. it just tells me that i really shouldn’t do business with them if they do not have a single person on staff who knows this. i mean come on, i learned it in a communication class at slippery rock university of pennsylvania. surely someone at UNC knows this?