At Poetic Asides, today’s prompt, “No one wants _____,” brought to mind an incident so funny, so ironic, so disgustingly true… and to think I volunteered to edit the copy for the yearbook and was turned down. The principal said, “I have professional secretaries to do that work.” Riiiiiiiight…
No One Wants (or likes) (or should depend on) SpellCheck
Savior of those who type in haste?
Harbinger of the lazy mind?
Neither.
It’s just SpellCheck, here to stay. Like the flu.
Example #25,286:
Parents participated in the yearbook
by writing personal notes to their graduates.
Mine included a line employing the vernacular:
“You’re gonna do great things!”
Fresh off the press, she ran all the way home
to show me an impressive array of signatures.
She had made lots of friends, and they all
noted she was “HOT!,” “Valedictorian,” and “Out!”
Turning to the parent’s dedications, she said,
“In the words of Al Jolson, ‘You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!'”
There, bearing my signature, was the side-splitting line:
“You’re gonad do great things.” GONAD??!!
SpellCheck, ShmellCheck.
Sharp Little Pencil 
Sherry Blue Sky
Hilarious. Oh my goodness! Hee hee.
Sharp Little Pencil
True story!
Deborah
LOL … thank you too … GONAD??!! soo funny!!! :o)
Sharp Little Pencil
Deborah, as I told Sherry, true story. How sad it that? And this is a major city school system – a magnet school! Amy
gospelwriter
OMG! Too crazy. I don’t know about theirs, but my spellcheck (1) lets me know when a ‘word’ isn’t in the word-processor’s dictionary, (2) suggests alternatives, (3) waits for me to choose an alternative or elect to stay with the original – a 3-step process. It doesn’t just go ahead and substitute the first acceptable word on the list…
Tilly Bud
Love it!!!
Sharp Little Pencil
Thanks, Tilly! I figured you would giggle… Amy
Debbie
I’m not sure if I would laugh . . .or cry! So much for professional secretaries!
Sharp Little Pencil
Yeah, I was one of those, too, trying to raise my girl on my own. Also a market researcher, health insurance worker, cell phone sales person… ugh! We as a society are getting very lazy with grammar, punctuation, syntax… I blame the Internet. Irony of ironies! Amy
pamela
Funny!
Pamela
Sharp Little Pencil
And true! I have the yearbook to prove it. Thanks, Pamela! A
Shail Raghuvanshi
Wow SLP,
This was wonderfully written, the anguish, the joy only gay people can understand and feel.
You have done it so beautifully.
Sensitive writing…
Sharp Little Pencil
Gay people and the allies who love them, yes, it’s true. You should have seen the principal’s face when I first walked in – I had already confronted her on why she didn’t allow same-sex couples to register together for prom, and she had to give in to my logic! So she was scared, baby!! Thanks, Shail! Peace, Amy
Sharp Little Pencil
Thanks, Shail, and the fact that my daughter was the first in her senior class to “come out of the closet” only makes the irony richer. Incidentally, two other girls found courage in Riley’s coming out and came out to their families, with less than stellar results… got thrown out of their homes. Told Riley they were always welcome at our house. That’s why God invented couches!
This story is one that, if I wrote it into a screenplay, people would say, Yeah, like that could happen. But I have the yearbook to prove it! Thanks again, and peace to you and yours, Amy
Carrie Burtt
I love this Amy….so funny….:-)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
Sharp Little Pencil
You, too, Carrie. And rember, dont dpend on SpillCzech 2 much!!! Amieeee
Sharp Little Pencil
Someims I wissh tha t SellChick wold go awway… ha ha ha. Have a good one, too, Carrie! Amy
oncealibrarian
Oh, I love it. My brother and I refer to it as the spillchucker, seems appropriate somehow! I’m sure I once blogged about some of the things it had done to me but I can’t find the posting. I must have imagined it… I just love it when you are reading a book and come across a strange sentence and after a minute or so of puzzling it falls into place that one word has been substitued for a mis-spelling – the wrong word! Manger and manager – the example you used commenting on my blog would be a typical one. .
Sharp Little Pencil
Embarrassing admission of the week: I recently edited a book and must have rushed it because there were three typos in 286 pages!! Fortunately, they had a short first run, but was my face red! I’m on the way over to see what you’re up to… to what you are up! Peace, Amy