OT: I'm a WHAT?

i would refuse to pay for it or ask for a refund as they messed it up and will most certainly affect the number of people you get around for the sale. you did spell out each word, there is no excuse for stupidity. j.

"Sunny" wrote ... I called the newspaper yesterday and paid for an ad to run today and tomorrow for the sale. I told them to start it off: Two quilters de- stashing -- lots of first quality quilt fabric. I spelled every word of every sentence. Imagine my surprise tonight when the paper arrived and I opened it to find my ad worded:

"Two quitters destashing!"

ROFL -- My friend and partner in fabric madness thought it was pretty funny, too. I'm just hoping that the word 'fabric' jumps out at everybody reading the ad and wondering what in the heck we're quitting.

Sunny

Just roaring LOL. My golly! Two Quitters? Destashing? Don't you need a license for that? Can you actually print it in polite society? Shame, shame. When news is short while I'm eating my Cheerios, I sometimes read the garage sale ads. Always better than the comic strips. Polly

My darling husband works for the newspaper and it wouldn't be politic of me to demand anything at all. I'm certain the nice young person who helped me will be mortified to find out her error. And I doubt it will hurt turnout. Around here, if the word 'fabric' shows up in the ad, then the ladies (and a couple of very nice gentlemen) turn out en masse. Matter of fact, I was writing down directions for folks yesterday at the local craft store. No, I realized many years ago that getting upset about those kinds of unintentional boo-boos usually makes me a mess and fixes nothing. I will hope they can fix it for tomorrow's paper. Saturday's paper comes out in the afternoon, long after we will have packed it up and sent the remainders off to the quilt guild's storage unit for the fall fundraiser sale. Both my friend and I share some physical limitations and we agreed that we couldn't do this at all if it was going to cause stress. I think we've adopted a truly Zen sort of attitude about it all. We put the fabric out, invite the folks in. If they come, good. If we sell, good. If not, well then we will get the joy of making a good donation to a worthy cause. It's all good.

Sunny

I'm sure you will have lots of people arrive to peruse. They'll want to know what destashing is, if the do not match fabric to it.

Relax, enjoy the release of fabric!

Typos are a way of life, even with spellcheck. It can make for some hilarious "fillers" in Reader's Digest magazine. At work, our email for the ITU [Info Technology unit] is ITU Helpdesk@..... Everytime, my spell scheck flags it and suggests "helpless". I love it. Of course, that unit is not amused. Go figure.

G> I called the newspaper yesterday and paid for an ad to run today and

Doc! Welcome back! I've been so busy lately that I may have missed some posts from you but it's nice to see you again! I ran across your address the other day and thought of you. How is the not-so-crazy crazy quilt coming along?

Leslie & The Furbabies > i would refuse to pay for it or ask for a refund as they messed it up and

Umm... you *can* just add it to your word list and it won't do that anymore. ;-)

Quilters... *destashing*?! YEGADS!... Isn't that like... SACRILEGE??? THINK of the CHILDREN!

Oh sheesh! I bet the quilters will still be able to understand what was meant though.

Hey Doc, great to see you! Um, don't tell anybody, but I'm probably going to use the proceeds from the garage sale to buy (whisper really quietly) more fabric. Ah yes, sweet irony.

:) Sunny

Sunny,

I'm a really worthy cause. I can send you my address. Don't worry about physical limitations, the mail man can pick up the boxes at your house!

*BEG*

Dannielle

I like your attitude :-)

It doesn't fix anything to scream at the classified clerk or even demand your money back. I bet that mistake won't detract at all from the success of your sale. At least it puts a little humor into it all. My first impression would be that you're quitting sewing and selling all your sewing stuff! (although I can't imagine anyone doing that who is still breathing!) My career was newspaper. I've seen / made absolutely dreadful mistakes. To get all technical (and your hubby already knows this).....newspapers are struggling. They cut back, cut back, cut back, and then wonder why there are mistakes in the paper. In my experience, it's because the typesetter/writer was expected to proof her own work. And that is

*not* possible. It's a weird phenomenon. You can't see mistakes in your own work. Sorry for the soapbox. Hope you made out like a *bandit* at the sale!

Sherry

On Jun 24, 11:04=A0pm, Sunny wrote: snipped I'm certain the nice young person who

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I am sure she is. Like I *still* am over a full-page ad (with color) that ran on the back page (prime placement).....with a 120 point type that read

"PUBIC ANNOUNCEMENT"

Or the one that said,

"Beauty Products for Mom on sale now at Wal Wart!"

That was fifteen years ago. I am still cringing.

Sherry