Random Rant #2
Added at 8:29pm and filed under Random Rant
Every morning on the way to work, I pass a beauty parlour that proudly boasts in three-foot high letters on a canvas banner that it now has “new tanning unit’s”. It drives me fucking crazy. Appalling grammar of both shop owner and banner-maker aside, why the fuck hasn’t someone taken the bloody thing down? It’s been there well over a year, so surely someone at some time has commented that it’s grammatically incorrect? Aren’t they embarrassed about it? I fucking would be.
I swear, nothing turns me off a service faster than poor spelling/grammar. If they can’t be arsed to proofread something that important – a banner on the main road into town, for Christ’s Sake – how the hell can you be sure that they’ve properly read the fucking instruction manual for the tanning machines in the first place? You wouldn’t get my pale arse in there if the ‘unit’s’ were fucking free.
V xx
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On 30 March, 2006 at 8:43 pm, Julie said:
Gah! I hate that. The local grocery store here has signs all over the place that say “Smile! Your on camera!” They drive me INSANE!
On 30 March, 2006 at 10:03 pm, Sasha said:
You should drive around Belfast and see the MASSIVE grafitti that says: “Sandy Row welcome’s you to South Belfast”
That alone would be enough to put me off living there – no way would I want to be associated with that!! But apparantly no one else in South Belfast cares, it’s been up like that for 3 years!
On 30 March, 2006 at 10:34 pm, Grax said:
… yeah….! o_o
On 30 March, 2006 at 10:55 pm, Susan said:
I cringed recently when I saw an A4 printed notice in a local shop informing customers to “check you’re change as mistakes can not be rectified later.” In fact – had it not been write at the front desk I would have taken a photo of it to blog with later.
Big posters I can understand as they cost money to get printed – but an A4 sheet could be run off easily enough.
With reference to the “new tanning unit’s” – if the poster has been their for over a year – technically they’re unit’s are no longer “new unit’s” and the trading standards’ peeps would love to here from you and you ccould tell on them for hoodwinking the public as well as annoying the shit outta U!
Let me no how you get on.
On 31 March, 2006 at 12:24 pm, stelly said:
How can you stand reading my blog?? lol
Stelly
On 31 March, 2006 at 2:27 pm, Ally said:
Aaaah! That would annoy me, too.
I was watching Lost, the week before this, and they had subtitles for the Jin and Sun’s backstory. Then, as plain as day, “You’re Husband..” flashed across the screen. Ugh.
On 2 April, 2006 at 3:31 pm, Heather said:
I hate errors like that. I spot them quickly and they annoy me forever.
On 3 April, 2006 at 4:30 am, Jessica said:
Yes! I love this rant! Giant peeve of mine as well because I don’t understand how people invest good money in things but just don’t but the care into making sure they’re spending their money well! The you’re/your errors drive me the most bonkers. If I ever get to be a high school english teacher (like I’m planning), I’m going to be the biggest bitch about errors like that. Yay!
On 3 April, 2006 at 7:32 pm, Rachel said:
I would probably go in and point it out to them, personally. Just because I’m that sort of person.
Have you ever read “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” by Lynne Truss? Right up your alley, I do think.