During my morning commute I ended up behind a big Chevy pick-up. While we were stopped for a red light, I got a chance to read his bumper sticker:
Eatin Fords and Shitin Dodge's
As an English teacher, a significant part of my day is spent extolling the virtues of correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. My students leave the classroom knowing that they'll never be taken seriously in this world if their writing presents an image of one who lacks precision and general detail sticklerliness. You'll certainly never be published if you don't clean up your grammatical act, yanno.
And then this idiotic bumper sticker shows up and blows my pompous theories right out of the water.
Granted, the guy driving the truck still looks like an idiot, but that bumper sticker was created by someone. Yes, there's a person out there who dreamed up and wrote down that little slogan of excessive automotive pride. And that person is published. Totally published. A company loved his/her words SO much, they printed hundreds - even thousands - of copies to sell to the masses.
Money is being made from these misspelled, poorly punctuated words.
If any of you simply MUST express your Chevy pride in such manner as this, please consider purchasing your sticker from these folks. At least they took the time to do it right. Their English teachers must be so proud of them right now.
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