So I'm adding up my checkbook

[Skorixor]

and I'm going through my recent receipts to add them into the computer, and I come upon this one for walgreens, where I went late the other night...

And you know at the top of the receipt where it prints the cashiers name?? this is what it said:


I'm EXTRA BOARD. Thank you for allowing me to serve you today.


/lmao

[Sai'nu]

roflmao

Although... that is probably a generic term for extra 'board' as in staff member. Best guess anyway. It really is funny how some things just slip by without a clue to people.

[Krusshyk]

Would have been funnier if the cashier had spelled "Bored" correctly. Kids today. Its all grammar check this and spell check that. Bah.

[xyryn]

(cough)

I just made it out of kid status this past year. I DO know about homonyms and homophones...and I use an old fashioned book dictionary. It's more fun.

(covets an OED)

[Kyanus]

(cough)

I just made it out of kid status this past year. I DO know about homonyms and homophones...and I use an old fashioned book dictionary. It's more fun.

(covets an OED)

*cries little tears of joy* There is hope, after all...

[Hashum]

I tell you it's the system. I swear no one cared about spelling and grammer until I was in high school. By then it was too late for me.

To further explain this, when I was in 4th grade all of our homework was due on Friday. I remember for at least the last half of 4th grade I would skip school EVERY Friday. And by every I mean every single Friday I would either not go to school or go home "sick". And I passed with a B in every subject. No joke.

[xyryn]

It may have been the system, or it may have been that you are way above average....that nasty concept of IQ,

I had to work for my grades; my twin didn't. She was bored all the way thru' school...until college.

And I learned most of what I know about the parts of speech from studying German. My sister is better at it...she got German in high school, Latin and French in college.

My g'mother taught us sentence diagraming. That was the single biggest help in understanding grammar...and we showed it to some of our friends. I would guess that this was about 6th grade. I would have loved to get more on the diagraming, pictures speak louder than words. And, I'm still a bit weak on what a dangling participle is.

[Jerrel]

lmao

Thats a good one remindes me of when I use to work at Knotts Berry Farm (for those of you who dont know thats Sothern Calie's getto version of Disneyland). We were alowed to put stickers on our name tags as long as the sticker didt have any cussing or obseen languange. For mine I had found a Dilbert sticker that was just a thought bubble with a ? in it. I put it right after my name to read "Trever?" and that got my friends looking for stickers that when placed after their name would be funny. The best one was; Bob "The other white meat."

[Dwilah]

I have access to the OED still through my school online library...mmm, OED. So lovely are you and yet so insane.

[warsloth]

I dreaded sentence diagramming in school.
I know it's also very obvious that I don't use a spellcheck too. I do however, try to use half decent grammar and spelling. A lot of times I just type it out, and if something was missed I will never notice it without a re-read.