At last, I’m reading “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” by Lynne Truss c. 2003. What fun! I am indeed a stickler – at least on some issues. Ms Truss validates my inner need to ‘fix’ things I think are done wrong. I do ink in a missing apostrophe or change ‘there’ to ‘their’ in a sign – at least if I can reach it with the pen I keep in my purse. I just can’t help myself! I try to do it on the sly though. I even go so far as to change the direction of a toilet paper roll in a public place if I don’t’ think it is hung ‘right’. A close friend admitted to doing the same surreptitiously. Wouldn’t you know any close friend of mine would be a stickler too?
Once, I worked in a large office building which had the familiar stick-like figures on each restroom door to indicate men and women. All the women figures had no heads. A secret misogynist had slyly went around and scraped off the part of the decal for the woman’s head. Is there was a message there??
me to on the stickler part. i am not a germaphobic about clean things, but i am a stickler for things being right side up, in the "correct" place according to me, pictures that are crooked are always straigtened by me, even my doctor office and i do hate photos that are hung to high or to low, per me
ReplyDeleteI would have drawn the women's heads back on, or perhaps simply scraped off the men's!
ReplyDeleteI am proud to join the ranks of sticklers also! Where do I sign up, is there a secret handshake?
ReplyDeleteWe should all hold our heads up high and realize that we sticklers keep the world from subsiding into chaos.