Is it just me

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Permalink Reply by Beth on November 28, 2007 at 6:50pm

Thanks to text messaging and IM's we now can send things quickly and not worry about spelling, grammar and all that other stuff we've been taught since 1st grade. Somedays I think that our teachers taught us all that stuff just to keep us busy. Maybe they better start teaching us real skills. Like "Advanced txtng." LOL.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Rowell on November 28, 2007 at 7:48pm

Ok, this has to be the funniest post i've seen on the nation so far, but yet it has to be the one that hits the spot more than any other. As a college graduate (Business Management) turned firefighter this is killing me also. All those classes I spent getting my grammer and spelling right was absolutely worthless right? I wish I could film my career day speeches back at my high school, I usually end up on how to just be a professional instead of how to become a firefighter. Isn't that cruel.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on November 28, 2007 at 11:02pm

It hurts me, physically, to see people with good common sense and something articulate to say lose any punch or effectiveness because of simple spelling or grammatical mistakes.

Allow me to translate:

It herts me, fisically, too see peeople with good comon cents and sumthing....

I can't go on.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on November 28, 2007 at 11:04pm

And we've all had a Sister Virginia (mine was Sister Mary Ruth....who was waaaaay past her shelf life....she arrived armed with multiple cans of Lysol for the phantom aromas she smelled in the classroom)...and most of them had the Kung-Fu grip.....

I'm still traumatized by penguins.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Seargent on November 29, 2007 at 8:24am

Here's a saint for you. Sister Virginia left the order 20 years after I was a pupil of hers so that she could get married. This was done for the single purpose of being able to adopt troubled and handicapped children with her RICH new husband. This may sound a little far fetched, but she adopted or fostered 115 boys and girls! After all of that service to others her husbad developed alsheimers, (yea I know spelling), and ended up with yet another child. An 80 year old child. He recently died after not spending 1 minute in an institution. She cared for him in his home the entire time. These children love her to this day as I do. Recently, she and my mother went to the Vatican on holiday and I'm sure she will holiday with god when she passes.

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Permalink Reply by ee779 on November 28, 2007 at 11:33pm

I may not be the best in spelling, puncuation, and setting up a correct paragraph has always been my weak point! But, I try to correct any mistakes I find before hitting send, simply to avoid looking dumb. I think that has to do alot with growing up/older. Which I must admit I've been trying to not do, to no avail. Todays kids (mostly, I consider anyone under 20 a kid, no offense intended) Just either haven't been taught or pushed to their fullest potential, by their parents! Thus, you have a whole community of people that don't know any better or just don't care! As far as penguins... I was a straight A student untill I went to the public school system, I went to catholic school from first to third grade. I still believe that was because they were striving to teach instead of just collecting a paycheck.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on November 29, 2007 at 12:13am

Thanks, ee779, for making me feel like a big fat jerk now!!!! But I appreciate your comments.
:)

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on November 29, 2007 at 9:53am

My grade school (Holy Cross) was where they sent the teaching nuns who were, for the most part, starting to lose it a little bit. These women wanted to continue to teach, the Order knew they couldn't leave them in the high school, so they sent them to Holy Cross. In my mind this was like chumming the shark tank, some of those kids were just the essence of evil, but for the most part they had a gentle "step down" time into full retirement.
I certainly can't complain about the level of education I received, and this is where my love of the written word was instilled.
I don't see why the fire service would prove the exception to the rule that if you're going to conduct business, be it obtain new equipment, train new personnel, write SOP's or whatever day-to-day business you need to conduct, that it be done any less professionally or done carelessly.

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Permalink Reply by ee779 on November 29, 2007 at 10:34am

I wasn't trying to offend anyone, I too, agree the officers and other members should conduct business with the upmost proffessionalism.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on November 29, 2007 at 10:40pm

no, no, no EE.....I was trying to tell you that you were making me sound small-minded....that's all....good post by you!!

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Permalink Reply by Tiger Schmittendorf on November 30, 2007 at 11:00am

Lay off the penguins. Kick the habit....

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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Shea on November 30, 2007 at 12:41pm

ouch.....that was dreadful.

Thirty whacks from Sr. Lucia with a BA ruler for you.

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