Overheard and Pet Peeves: Aug. 12, 2016

OVERHEARD

Are there tid-bits of conversations you’ve heard while standing in line at the grocery store, serving a table, or walking down the sidewalk that make you smile, cringe or laugh out loud?

“That ozone sure smells like bacon!”

“I didn’t go to school for sash making.”

“People need to eat my babies. Be careful.”

“She just photo bombed that plein air artist’s picture.”

“I’m not wasting my tact on you.”

“How about ‘live and let die?’ Can we do that, too?”

PET PEEVES

Is there something that really irks you, gets your goat, rubs you the wrong way, drives you up the wall, gets you bent out of shape, puts a stick in your craw, or makes you want to throw in the towel?

That the Sturgeon Bay garbage/recycling facility is no longer open on Saturdays.

Double spaces after periods. As Jennifer Gonzalez, author of the online Cult of Pedagogy magazine, explained it, typewriters used monospaced type (each character was given the same amount of horizontal space) so a double space after a period made the beginning of a new sentence easier to read. Today’s word processors use proportionally spaced fonts, eliminating the need for two spaces after periods. (For those who need more convincing, the title of her article on the topic is, “Nothing Says Over 40 Like Two Spaces After A Period!”)

The nearly impossible-to-remove “protective” plastic shield that sits on top of a new stick of deodorant.

When you’re standing in a group of people and someone hands you a baby, then it starts crying.

Mosquito bites on your feet.

Trying to write in a straight line on blank greeting cards.

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