Typos Can Be So Darn Funny!

How do I love e-mail, let me count the ways:

1. I don't need to shower to e-mail

2. It takes 5 seconds to write an e-mail versus the 15 min I might have to spend on the phone yacking with someone

3. Information is in writing for those of us with age/life-related memory problems

4. Typos can be HILARIOUS!

I almost always have typos in my e-mails...pretty much because of #2 above.  (But really, I think typos are just the occupational hazard of life.)  Here is an e-mail I wrote to a SHE the other day:  "Come over and we can have a glass of wine and admire my birth bath".  She replied that she is not coming over and that's disgusting.  

My most favorite typo came to me in an e-mail from a former boss, a Senior Vice President of a large, global consumer products company.  Here was the exchange:

Me: Do you want to review this or can I make the decision myself?

He: Can I thrust you?

I deleted that e-mail quickly because mistakes like that in a company that size are not so funny (well, to me they still are funny but not to the shiny happy people in HR).

Today, I got the following e-mail from a SHE:

"Hi Guys
Kel is going today to buy a 100 dollar gift card from REI (thanks Kel)
Please bring 20 bugs tonight to pay her. I'll buy a card we can sign."

To which I replied:

"Sh*t, 20 "bugs"?  That's going to take me all day at this time of year!  How about if we bring 20 of those fluffy white things floating in the air?  I can see 20 of those from my window right now."

Turns out, it wasn't a typo!  My dear SHE friend is German and really thought it was "bugs".  This sounds preposterous...until you realize that calling them "bucks" is just as crazy.  I just tried to find out why we even call them "bucks" and cannot find a straight answer...seems to lie somewhere between using deer hides as currency and using the term "sawbuck" for $10 bill.  

For making me laugh out loud today over that e-mail, I am rewarding my SHE friend with a scrumptious Blue Hawaiian this evening.  If you haven't had one in a while, I highly recommend re-visiting the cocktail...they cost about 10 bugs if you order one at a restaurant and less than 1 bug if made at home.  

Happy Memorial Day weekend!!!