Caution: Headline mising

As long as I have known how to read, I have been wondering about one thing: Why are there so many spelling mistakes in signs people put up in public places. You know the ones. "Wet pant" and so on. I estimate that 85 percent of such notes are misspelled one way or the other. 

Because they used to be handwritten notes, I always thought the reason was just that people were too focused on making them look good, so they were just a little too close to the paper or cardboard or whatever it was they were writing on. But these days everybody’s making their notes on a computer so that theory doesn’t hold up anymore. 

 

Lost camera.

 

OK, if you’ve lost your camera, maybe you’re upset about it, so you type a note fast, print it out, and sprint back out to tape the notes onto trees. I guess you have other things on your mind then so mistakes happen. 

And on the other hand, when you see a spelling error, it seems pretty petty to go up to somebody and point it out, right? Nobody has done it at the local library, anyway.

 

Warning

 

 Until tomorrow. 

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