Monday, October 8, 2012

March 23 - Untitled, Road Trip

The sign told us: When Fog on Mountain, Be Alert and Drive Slowly.  We whipped past it.  You were not aware of the sign
      - Reading while I'm driving makes me sick.
Well fine.  I'll do the reading for both of us.  There wasn't a comma on the sign.  I added it for you because commas drive you nuts.  Not when they're misused but when they're used at all.  You speak at a pauseless clip.  You only use the period (which I'll admit deserves some love as a sign of punctuation anyway) and God Forbid a comma appear in your way.  Some grammarian must have traumatized you in grade school.  I have never seen you so angry at Word as when it insists on adding one.  Even Clippy is a more welcome sight than the green squiggle that alerts you to a mistake of usage.
But this is the kind of sign you would have heeded.  This sign without punctuation should appear a welcome sight after three hours on the road which is too much for you.  But since you care so little for our saftey, I think it best that it be the kind of sign that does you in.

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