Now - I'm not an awesome speller. In the 6th grade I was finally chosen to be in the spelling bee and I was the first one of everyone in my grade school - kindergarten through 8th grade - to have to sit down. The word that outted me? Access. I hesitated on the last 's,' tripped by the bright light of scrutiny. My shame is still acute.
Which is whyI think I perpetually look for others in the same situation. Taking the bus with JT to work, we stopped at the corner of State St. and 16th St. [Ed note - in Chicago, when giving cross streets, you always begin with the north/south street and then give the east/west street, i.e. "Dearborn and Harrison" not "Lake and Clark." You're welcome.] As passengers loaded on, bundled and booted from the weather, I read the signs posted in the corner shop, which appeared to be some kind of mortgage broker or financial services shop.
"Equity Loans" "Refinancing" "401k Rollover" "Business Financing" "Dept Consolidation"
Wait - what? Dept consolidation? On a professionally printed sign in a window. So, if someone is going to handle all the Ps and Qs of paperwork relating to your DEBT consolidation, shouldn't they be pretty detail oriented? And with the current state of the financial industry's reputation for overlooking details (and thus lending people money they can't afford to repay for homes which are overvalued to begin with) I'd think a start-up operation would have the brains to say "Hmmm, perhaps I should not hang this one and order a new sign."
See previous: http://writergrlsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post.html
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