Monday, April 15, 2019

Taking your readers by storm

When I was a little girl, I heard my mom say, "St. Louis weather! Chili today and hot tamale." Well, that is what I thought she said. Now I realize she said "Chilly today and hot tomorrow."

Actually the weather is bipolar at the moment. Freezing this morning and the temperature will rise to 80 degrees tomorrow.

I like warmth, so I will take 80 over 32 any day. Spring storms ripped across the US and caused death and destruction. Our town had trees uprooted and power lines down, but only a few skinny tree limbs in our backyard.

Did you ever misspeak, or misinterpret something you heard?

Be careful when you right to use the correct spelling and write tense.

I will tell you something about those who reply to this post.

8 comments:

DUTA said...

We are experiencing climate anomality. The joke says that during this decade we'll have two options: freezing and melting. I wish it were a joke, but who knows.

Connie said...

I will take warmth over cold too. It is so easy to misunderstand what someone says or to unintentionally write (or right)the wrong word. ;)

Dianna Graveman said...

Write/right, either way, you're good at what you do! And coincidentally, my mother said the same thing, only she really DID say "tamale." She thought it was a clever play on words. :)

Pat Wahler said...

You made me scan before I posted this. :-)

Val said...

Since he could talk, my son Genius has given a lengthy explanation when I chastise his behavior. When he was 3 or 4, I said, "You're going to grow up to be a lawyer." Genius declared, "I am not a lawyer! YOU are a lawyer!" Apparently, he interpreted "lawyer" to be "liar."

Sioux Roslawski said...

I sometimes have trouble using the write tents. Butt I try my best.

Linda O'Connell said...

I can pretty much unofficially tell who is left brained and who is right brained (if there really is such a thing) and I can almost predict which of you are first borns or assertive: those who pointed out my deliberate grammar mistakes. this was fin. Thanks.

Sandi said...

Until I was in my late 20's I thought a candleabra was called a candle opera.