So we all know that I have a personal obsession with pointing out typos and spelling/punctuation mistakes. Nary a menu, billboard, or car commercial go by without my having to lend a critical comment.
I've recently had two more incidents prove that I'm going to end up in a mental institute one day separating the forks by the bend in their tines:
1) This girl I used to go to church with added me as her friend on a social networking site. Since she fulfilled my requirements for being a friend (one, I know her personally; two, she doesn't work with me; three, she's not a current student; and four, I don't mind if she reads my blogs), I added her. She only lasted a few days though. Why? Because she constantly updated her status and always typed in ALL CAPS. like MS. X IS HAVING A BAD DAY TODAY. or MS. X WISHES SOME PEOPLE WOULD JUST SHUT UP. While the actual status updates were sort of weird, the all caps is what clenched it. I had to delete her from my friends.
2) I just realized today that when someone sends me an attachment as a doc, that I literally cannot read it if the font offends my visual aesthetic in relation to the content. Someone sent me a poem and I opened it, and it was in a Lucida Calligraphy/Monotype Corsiva font (which I don't care for anyway... overused, people! You may as well use effing Comic Sans, my least favorite font of all time). I immediately had to select all, shrink the font, and put it into one of my regular (read: better) fonts.
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