A MIGHTY WIND & A CRAPPY DAY

[paularubia]

Today at work absolutely everyone and everything pissed me off. The mood might have started when I arrived at work and, upon approaching the entrance, was accosted by two screaming (and I mean SCREAMING) 10-year olds asking if I wanted to buy Girl Scout cookies. Or maybe it started on my way to the back when I passed that same guy who is camped out

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[liquidmirror]

I. HATE. THE SPELLING THING. I get it ALL the time. I figure I must look especially retarded (seeing as I live in Southern California and a) don't have died hair, b) don't have breast implants, and c) rarely put on makeup in the morning) for people to feel the need to spell out words like Bob. Or Smith. Or innocent, metaphysics, Buddhist, or mythology. Especially when I've already started typing them, and in fact have finished before they've gotten to the third or fourth letter.

[dyfferent]

I actually tend to stop people and tell them that's ok, I can spell that. The only exception is addresses because while they're spelling out their street name I can get as far as the postcode. Unless they have a really thicko street name like Maple or something.

I can kinda understand it. I have to spell my name for people and my name is a garden-variety word. But people spell the stupid words for you and assume you know the ones that have a lot of homophones. I had a woman looking for a book which started with Ceres. She didn't spell it and amazingly I assumed the English word series instead of the goddess/asteroid. Buh!

[threegoldfish]

I've sadly fallen into the habit of spelling my incredibly common name. First name has two extremely common spellings and most people usually guess wrong with mine and last name starts with a V which most people seem to hear as B for whatever reason. I just find it's easier to spell, just in case.

[thisdaydreamer]

I get the customers who say something like "My first name is Bob - that's B-O-B, my last name is Glegfalkbcfdksfkbgawsrlnl, and my phone number is..."

[doolkid]

LMAO!!
I know!! I was about to make a similar comment.