I don't know if anyone has come across it, but there's a group on Facebook (with almost 1500 members) called "Ban Smoking in the Presents of Child."
The group has been around for quite a while now, and I've been puzzled by it ever since I first laid eyes on it. See, I don't smoke, but I've grown up around smokers all my life and never have I had a problem with anyone smoking in my presents. They've smoked in the same room as me, and with me in the car. Actually, during the holidays, people even light up cigarettes while sitting quite near my Christmas presents. However, I've never actually experienced someone smoking IN my presents. Has anyone else had this problem?
Alright, before I take this too far, a guy who posted in the group's wall had an interesting take on the situation. He wrote:
"I am a firefighter. I would just like to say that I have experienced the problem you are trying to ban. It was a quiet day until my pager alerted me of a a possible house fire on Christmas day. I got on the truck and eventually went to the house and there it was....under the Christmas tree.....smoke coming from the presents! It was a dangerous fire to fight because each time I would apply the water, the midgets in the presents would just light up another cigarette. Oh it was terrible!"
Note that the group owner did eventually catch his error, though Facebook doesn't allow groups to be renamed, so he was unable to change it. However, with the emergence of social networking websites, I am becoming amazed at how terrible so many people are with grammar. I'm not talking about writing things such as "gonna" or "luv" or anything. I'm talking about dropping the 'e' before adding 'ing', or the difference in synonyms such as "there" and "their", "here" and "hear", "presents" and "presence". Don't you learn that stuff in elementary school? Maybe it's just ignorance...
Anywayz ime gonna quite bitcheing now cuz its probbly geting anoying.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Banned in Schools, Malls, and even Bars... Why Not a Child's Presents?
Posted by Ron P at 6:43 PM
Labels: Annoyances
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