I Can’t Help It

What are you passionate about?

I think for my answer today, I’m going to make you guess. I have told you about my passion for writing, knitting/crocheting, loud music from my “inspirational playlist”, mental health awareness, all the things. But there’s one more. Look at these pictures and see if you can tell me what my passion is.

These pictures are all of my tv while the same local news was on. Did you figure it out? Why did I take these pictures? Hint: I was an English teacher in my past life.

Cue the Jeopardy theme…

Give up? The answer is, each of those pictures shows a spelling or grammar mistake in the text they displayed on the screen. These are just from this past year. I have pictures throughout the last few years. They have increased in frequency lately. To the point that when I was looking for a job, I was tempted to message them these pictures and ask them if I could work for them either proofreading or being the person who puts those titles on there.

I am passionate about correct spelling and grammar, lol! Also, please don’t come at me with any mistakes here! I post and then go back and proofread and often catch my mistakes then.

I’m not obnoxious about grammar in my every day life, but this news channel, though my favorite, drives me batty because the mistakes are so blatant and displayed for the entire viewing area to see! To be fair, I’m not obnoxious with these people either. Only one time I submitted corrections and it was for a written story they posted on their website that was so full of mistakes it was painful to read. They had a thing to click on for suggesting edits. And I used it!

One last fun fact…my tattoo artist has a trophy in his area for some big award he won. Something “mechanical” though I don’t know what that means in the tattoo world. The trophy, however, had the word “mecanical”. I didn’t say anything during my first session. I couldn’t ignore it the second time though. The artist said I was the first person to point it out. He knew it was misspelled, apparently nobody else did. I kind of thought the misspelling was the way the word was spelled when it relates to tattoos. Apparently not.

Don’t worry, I will not be judgmental on any of your posts. I promise.