Today I went to Subway, and while I was waiting to pay for my order, I looked to my right and saw a laser-printed notice that read:
THIS LOCATION OPEN 24 HOURS
BEGINNNING JULY 15
"Do you know your sign has an extra letter?" I asked the teenage cashier.
"What?" he said.
I pointed. He started to laugh.
"Hey, [name]," he called to the manager, who was showing another employee how to clean the drink machine. "You put an extra 'n' in 'beginning.'"
"What?"
"In the sign. 'Beginning' has an extra 'n.'"
"Oh," said the manager. To me, he said, "That's been up for two weeks and no one else has noticed."
"I'm sorry," I said, starting to feel like a jerk. "I'm an editor. It's my job to notice."
"It's in all of them," giggled the cashier, who had gone to inspect the identical signs stuck in different locations around the shop.
At that point, I grabbed my sandwich and my Diet Coke and escaped, because the manager was looking a little too angry for my taste. Hey, buddy, I usually charge people money for my services. How about a free cookie or something instead of a glower?
3 comments:
I was once noticed a sign in a tourist trap gift shop offering "Medevil goblets" for sale.
Instead of pointing out the error to the proprietor I simply snapped a photo with plans to mock it on the internet.
I don't think I've ever read a menu that didn't have at least 1 spelling error. I've found errors on posters at stores, in fancy restaurants and hotels, on junk mail advertisements, and much more. I even noticed when the little mannequin "smallest son" had his shorts on backwards at Old Navy. I never considered actually getting PAID to point out these finds! How cool is that?!
There used to be a store near me with a sign that said "Al's Upolstery." It drove me crazy every time I passed it, especially because it was clearly an old store and the sign had probably been like that for 30 years or so. I so wanted to climb up with a ladder late one night and spray-paint the missing "h" in there.
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