•10:28 AM
There it was...
In type...
It was one of the biggest typos I have ever made...
It started last fall while I was beginning my fourth semester at a local Bible College. We were only about a week or so into it. I sat up that night to do my homework for a class later that week. It was my normal routine. I stayed up and worked on it while talking to others on Facebook. Then I got a instant message from a friend. He was telling me that they were posting crazy or random things on another friends Facebook wall and he wanted me to join in the "fun".
So, I clicked on over to this guy's page and there it was. Many of my other classmates had posted comments. Then I done something I should not have. I wrote something myself!
I thought it was nothing special. Others took what I wrote and started playing off of it. I commented back a couple of times and then noticed some strange things being said and decided to stop. I finished what I could of my homework and went to bed. I was to meet with the president of the college in the morning to discuss my involvement in his office. I was kind of excited to be working with the president of the college and was definitely nervous about our meeting.
I sat there that morning waiting for him to get there and he was not happy when he arrived. Apparently, he saw what we posted on that classmates Facebook wall. I still didn't understand what the big deal was. He came down on me pretty hard for my involvement with it. He even suggested I make a public apology to this person at a Chapel service. I had no problem apologizing if my friend was hurt or offended by my actions. The only problem was that he wasn't, he thought it was funny.
A day or two went by and I was talking with another friend who was involved with this whole ordeal. I told him I just didn't understand what was the big deal. He then proceeded to question me about what I wrote. Apparently, I had made a typo. Now, I do tend to type a little slower than I think and sometimes letters or even words get left out but when I found out what actually was written I was shocked.
My intention was to write, "How dare you come in here screaming and yelling".
It didn't quite come out that way. Instead it came out like this (I capitalized the words for emphasis, not in the original)....
"How dare you come in here CREAMING and yelling"...
This one statement caused the whole thing to be blown out of proportion.
The reason I write all of this is to emphasize once again an important aspect of writing. No matter how short or long, or even where you write something please, I mean PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Proof Read What You Write!!!!!
So, I clicked on over to this guy's page and there it was. Many of my other classmates had posted comments. Then I done something I should not have. I wrote something myself!
I thought it was nothing special. Others took what I wrote and started playing off of it. I commented back a couple of times and then noticed some strange things being said and decided to stop. I finished what I could of my homework and went to bed. I was to meet with the president of the college in the morning to discuss my involvement in his office. I was kind of excited to be working with the president of the college and was definitely nervous about our meeting.
I sat there that morning waiting for him to get there and he was not happy when he arrived. Apparently, he saw what we posted on that classmates Facebook wall. I still didn't understand what the big deal was. He came down on me pretty hard for my involvement with it. He even suggested I make a public apology to this person at a Chapel service. I had no problem apologizing if my friend was hurt or offended by my actions. The only problem was that he wasn't, he thought it was funny.
A day or two went by and I was talking with another friend who was involved with this whole ordeal. I told him I just didn't understand what was the big deal. He then proceeded to question me about what I wrote. Apparently, I had made a typo. Now, I do tend to type a little slower than I think and sometimes letters or even words get left out but when I found out what actually was written I was shocked.
My intention was to write, "How dare you come in here screaming and yelling".
It didn't quite come out that way. Instead it came out like this (I capitalized the words for emphasis, not in the original)....
"How dare you come in here CREAMING and yelling"...
This one statement caused the whole thing to be blown out of proportion.
The reason I write all of this is to emphasize once again an important aspect of writing. No matter how short or long, or even where you write something please, I mean PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Proof Read What You Write!!!!!
1 comments:
One word caused all the Drama.. Had you been on the money making basketball team you could have done drugs, had sex with each other.. Just anything you pleased.. I will stick by how I felt at that time.. IDIOTS!!
Not once were you acknowledged for the good you done..