While at my first job out of college, I closed an e-mail with the sentence "I'm sorry for the inconvenience."
Except I misspelled "inconvenience" and the spell check function automatically changed it to “incontinence.”
I didn't even realize it happened until the email recipient wrote back, "Not to embarrass you, but I think you meant inconvenience, not incontinence. Incontinence is ‘the inability to control excretory functions.’"
To this day, I wish I could think of something that spell check could automatically change to “God, could you possibly get any more annoying?"
But then again there's no need for two people to revert to middle school mentality over a typo.
I wonder what my old coworker would do if she saw "incontinence" splashed around in a news release headline:
Um, not to embarass you or anything American Physical Therapy Association, but real ladies don't have symptoms of urinary incontinence. In fact, they don't even pee.
1 comment:
i seriously cannot believe someone corrected you like that when they knew what you meant. ugh.
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