You know people can be really touchy. They don’t like it when people poke fun at them, they don’t like it when someone notices a flaw, and they definitely don’t like to be corrected. I don’t particularly like the second one when it’s ill intentioned, but the other two don’t bother me too much. Which leads me to my observation. For over two and a half years I have had this little category of mine that I call Life Occurrences. The problem is that I had it as Life Occurances. Occurances, for those not paying attention, is not a word, or better said, it’s a misspelled version of Occurrences.
Two and a half years. TWO AND A HALF YEARS! Nobody told me it was misspelled! Now, I have a few clues as to why. One is that as a writer I may have chosen to write it that way and my readers just figured it was a “creative” thing on my part. Another possibility, and probably closer to the truth, is probably related to the aforementioned fact. People are touchy. Therefore everybody assumed that I too am touchy. Thanks for the sentiment. Truth is that I’m one of those people who would have greatly appreciated being told so that I wouldn’t appear like some illiterate buffoon.
When I first started blogging I wasn’t using spell check, maybe because I was a four time spelling bee champ in my school and didn’t need it. Or MAYBE because I never bothered to find out that I could spell check my blogs. DUH!! Now I figured out how to use it and realized my serious oversight. I CAN’T SPELL MY OWN TITLES AND CATEGORIES. Well, thank God for spell check.
Now, I just throw this out to my readers. If you see something that doesn’t make sense, inform me of it. It will make my editing process easier. (I won’t have to read and reread as much in order to catch a mistake) And it will save me from looking like a less than intelligent individual, something I know I am not, but that others may assume otherwise (“That guy writes pretty well for a complete idiot”). So don’t be afraid to just throw in your ideas and comments and tell me if you see anything that’s a little off. Now I am NOT asking you to nitpick. I don’t need an endless number of comments ragging on me. And it needs to be done with good intentions. I need to make sure you are really being helpful. But I’d really appreciate you looking after me. Then I would know that my blog is being read by friends and not just readers.
Enough of all this seriousness. My L.O.s tend to be funny. I gotta start writing more of these and use my extremely keen sense of humor. (Yes, I intended to use gotta, which BTW survived spell check, and I do have a keen sense of humor, so comments on that account, OK!) Oh, and in case you’re wondering, you read too slow. Just kidding! TOUCHY, TOUCHY!