Yesterday I wrote about my new white shoes and commented on how I shouldn’t wear them after Labor Day. Considering  it is now March and Labor Day is at the end of summer, I really don’t know what I was thinking. Yes, I did read it over before I posted and no, I obviously didn’t catch the glaring error. It took an observant reader and honest friend to call me on my faux pas. Thank you very much.

At first, I quickly edited the post to cover my embarrassment from the millions (maybe not!) who read my blog posts. But then I decided it was far more noble to just live with it. Plus, it will be funny to read these someday when I am 105 and laugh at my senility just as I do with a similar mistake I made in high school. 

I had written an English paper that I was quite proud of for a very hard teacher. Therefore, I was surprised when I got the paper back because it wasn’t the grade I expected or felt I deserved. There were big red circles over the same word throughout the whole paper. I had always been a good speller and was certain I had spelled the word right. Clearly she, the English teacher, was wrong and I, the 16 year old high school student was right. I summoned my courage and approached her desk.

Me: ” I really think there’s something wrong.” showing her the paper.

Her: “You think do you? Maybe you should write it on the board.”

What was I thinking at that point? This could not be good. Nonetheless, I wrote what I had written on the board and the whole class laughed. I looked over at this very unsympathetic teacher who smirked back at me. It still looked right to me…

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After several seconds that felt like hours because I still didn’t get the mistake, someone shouted out the correct spelling. I probably could have stared at that all day and not caught the error. Just as with my post yesterday.  Sometimes you look and look and just don’t see. Hmmm.

So what’s the point of all this? Hopefully it reminds me that it’s always a good thing to be able to laugh at yourself and not take things too seriously. A good chuckle is always the best way to lighten the load.

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