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Suck It Up Writer, Typos Happen
Here’s how you eliminate them
My daughter was crying. I raced into the kitchen, followed closely by Alfie.
When I saw the carnage, I spun around to stop Alfie from entering. A hard ask, as it’s easier to make Uber profitable than it is to stop an inquisitive mini bull terrier from doing what they want to do.
It had shattered as it hit the floor. She’d given herself a fright and as it was a rare vintage Iittala glass, breaking it had upset her even more, hence the tears.
“No problem,” I said once I’d coaxed the dog out. “It’s just glass and I’ve broken more glasses than you’ll ever break in your life.”
These were the same words the head waiter had said to me when I dropped a crate of 100 wine glasses in my summer job as a busboy in a restaurant. I thought I was going to get fired, he’d just laughed.
Typos are like glasses, dropping them from time to time is inevitable, and no one makes as many typos as a pro writer.
Typos are embarrassing though. I just discussed this with an old friend after I’d praised a piece his colleague had written. They work for a small asset manager, so their portfolio managers write their own copy. My friend said it was a shame there were a few typos in the text.
