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I recently got an interesting bit of junk mail. One of the local lending agencies sent me a letter saying I was pre-approved for a loan. It would be a secured loan with ah 22% interest rate.

I was a bit offended. Waht kind of an idiot do they think I am that I would jump at a chance to take out a loan on such gaia-awful terms? Did they think I was possessed by Eris? Come on!

So, I went to their office armed with a very different document.

A bill for proof-reading their offer.

I charged the $2000 proof-reading fee, and gave them a due date for payment of one month.

Good for you!! :D

Although, do check your credit ratings after this, it might come back to bite you...although it shouldn't. Just never plan on using that finance company in the future....

Still, funny, I wish I had the guts to respond to all of the ilk I get...

Silly, funny and AWESOME.

That sounds fun.

That's awesome!

I once walked into a mobile phone shop and asked to speak to the manager because they had a poster in the window that read "THE SUMMERS LATEST STYLE'S". I told him that there was not one, but two grammar mistakes in the poster, which was not a handwritten job but a professionally-made advertisement centrally printed and distributed by the head office. The manager looked at me as if I were a weirdo, and asked "so what are the mistakes then?". I pointed them out and asked him to get in touch with HQ to rectify the matter because "it gave an awful image of the company". He didn't have a clue how to react. Now I think I ought to have handed in a corrected version of the poster together with my proof-reading bill (which would have been quite hefty, as a University lecturer with a PhD). Damn!

Berhael wrote:

The manager looked at me as if I were a weirdo, and asked "so what are the mistakes then?".

I bet he actually said "So what are the mistake's then?"

Last week I saw a poster in a window asking for job applicants who had 'acheived English GCSE exams' The poster wasn't labelled URGENT but it should have been.

I almost always carry a pen on my person and when I'm in the mood I'll take it out and correct the grammar on signs and posters and the like.

Makes me feel better.

I would be a rich woman if I sent our local news station a bill every time I spotted (and mentally corrected) one of their errors. It's constant. I see on average 1-2 per newscast.

It would be different if it were "breaking news" or something, and you knew they had thrown together the story in a few minutes.


Lali

In college, my roommate and I once corrected a nasty letter written to my hallway by a resident's girlfriend who didn't appreciate the status of the bathroom. This was a male hallway, and the status never bothered us. She wasn't even supposed to be using the bathroom. She didn't like the grammar corrections. They were written in red ink, which made them official.