Archive for November 12th, 2008
It’s the little things.
The little things can make an ordinary day red-letter. Yesterday was one of those days for me and my editorial OCD.
Ellie started taking ballet in September. Since then we have scheduled every Tuesday around this event. Every Tuesday that I forget to pack a picnic, we have lunch at the Subway in the shopping center that shares a parking lot with the dance school. And every Tuesday I have entered that Subway hoping against hope that the manager noticed and changed a misspelled sign.
Since September, maybe longer, this little sandwich shop has advertised “unsweatened” iced tea. Seeing some of the characters that work there, I’m sure some of the tea may be sweat-in, so it’s nice of them to offer a no-sweat option.
I really wanted to tell someone, but the sandwich maker doesn’t speak English well and I didn’t want to seem critical or elitist. And every time I stepped toward the counter to make a stink about it, I thought of Lynn Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Armed with a giant apostrophe on a stick, she picketed the movie Two Weeks Notice. This drew more attention to her than to the punctuation error in the movie’s title. 
I didn’t want attention; I just wanted sweet instead of sweat.
Well, yesterday, finally, I saw a corrected sign. Hooray! Subway now sells unsweetened tea instead of unsweatened. I’m so happy! I didn’t have my camera and my phone battery was dead, so … I’ll just give you a picture of Ellie at ballet.
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