A Missed Period
Tue May 13, 2008 at 02:23:33 PM PDT
Settle down there. It's just a creative title.
I'm supposed to be re-typing two stories for the grade two class. The kids write these little stories and they get sent off to volunteer typists (moms) who use templates to type them up and print them out and send them back. Apparently when I typed one of them out I missed a period on the final sentence for the author's biography.
So instead of being "She is 7." it said "She is 7"
See?
See the part where there's no period after the 7?
Since this was such a glaring error the whole manuscript (all 3 pages) was sent back to me so I could correct it - I could correct it with a flipping magic marker but the editor (also a volunteer mom) has circled the spot where the period should go and written "No Period" in blue ink. I could have saved the whole thing with a dot....but now I have to re-type the whole manuscript (all three pages).
I know I have to do it and I know that I made a mistake and I know that there is a little girl out there who may be crying over her missed period...wait...that's not like it sounds.... I just don't want to. So instead of actually getting down to re-typing the whole thing out again because I missed a period (again, not like it sounds) I'm complaining here about it.
I'm taking my little address thing out of the ziploc bag when I send it back though - it's my way of turning in my resignation on this volunteer job. It's just one more volunteer position I won't be circling when those stupid "What committee do you want to be on?" sheets come out in the fall. I want to be on the "Get a stupid marker and make a dot on the damned page instead of sending the whole effing thing back" committee.
Any questions about why I am not cut out to be PTA president?
Feel free to use this space to squawk and complain about PTAs, volunteer positions that don't turn out like you expected and grammar. (see the period there?)
Crossposted at It's all good...
