From this day forward I’d like to openly and endlessly volunteer my copy editing services to the San Francisco Chronicle. No, I’m not a trained editor or an educated journalist, but I do know how to spot basic and critical typos in current event stories.
I’ve heard coworkers joke and poke fun at the Chronicle over and over about all the typos they find, but I usually just shrug it off… we all make mistakes, eh? But I couldn’t help but be all but flabbergasted when I read their front page, lead story today on the two Current TV journalists sentenced to prison in North Korea. See visuals below.
Lisa Ling?! Try Laura Ling. Lisa is a journalist, yes (as seen on Oprah, The View, National Geographic Explorer and CNN), but she is not the one in prison in North Korea. She’s in the public eye right now trying to help her sister, but she is not Laura. Ugh. Seriously?
If you’re going to bring your giant black lab on the bus do you think it makes the most sense to sit a) at the back of the empty bus so your dog is out of the way and away from people or b) in the very middle of the bus (at the place the accordian bus connects, where the aisle is especially tight) so no one can get to the back of the bus?
On our way to lunch today we were walking behind three totes nasty, unappropriately dressed, clearly bridge and tunnel hoochie mamas. Ew. Time to shame them to my 13 devoted readers!
This might sound ridiculous and Lindsey will most certainly roll her eyes, but yesterday I gave the gift of patience to United Airlines and O’Hare airport. Three cancelled flight and, three standby lists, I kept my cool while taking 13 hours getting from SFO to GRR via ORD, and was thankful and courteous to those I interacted with. I am a realistic person so I can accept flight nightmares. As I saw yesterday, in the hell that was O’Hare, others most certainly can not.
My favorite passenger was one I sat next to while waiting in standby line #2 (for a flight that was eventually cancelled). She was headed to Moline (wherever the f that is) and was justa huffin’ and puffin’ for about 30 minites and how mistreated she was and how she was determined to get her money back, whether she had to take United to court or not.
Just for fun, let’s shame her and post her picture below.
You know what I hate? When people don’t enter the bus from the front door and instead skip the line and jump on through a back door.
You know what I hate even more? When the above described people hop on through a back door while you’re waiting in line showing your pass and steal the last seat.
Do you know the woman below? If so let me know. She stole the last seat on the 9X tonight, which clearly was MY seat.
I was riding MUNI on the way to brunch today and couldn’t help but notice this family letting their toddler guzzle down some Cherry Coke. Really people?
If you know them please tell them how wrong this is on so many levels for me.
