Thursday, July 21, 2005

National "One Line Thru" Day

Today we celebrate "One Line Thru Day".

Yes, its time to put the SCRIBBLE technique to rest. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? Most Mainstream Americans (except those who had Mrs. Harrison for Grammar) grow up thinking that when they make a mistake while writing (in pen) that the reasonable thing to do is scribble, scribble, scribble, scribble until all the reader can see when looking at the whole page is this big blarring blob of scribble! Forget what ever else is on the page. Your eye can't get away from that hideous mess. This applies to anything from shopping lists to job applications.

So "One Line Thru" day has been established to heighten public awareness of the new visually UN-offensive technique of simply drawing ONE horizontal line through your mistake. Of course, if you are one of those people who accidentally writes your REAL SS# on your I-9 form for work, and realize that you meant to write the FALSE one that you bought from that guy down at the corner by the tattoo parlor, then I can see how the scribble technique must be implemented. So for you we celebrate our new Home Land Security Act! The INS guys will be visiting you soon.

Don't forget to mark your calendars for "National Don't Use Your Spit to Wet Your Fingers When Sorting Someone Else's Pages Before You Set Them On Their Desk Day". Does it seem like I have work related "issues'?


Comments:
Now that we have computers, I sometimes forget that people occasionally still use pens to write things; I know I don't. Here's to National 'Manual Writing Is Obsolete' Day!

That would solve the whole spit on papers thing too.
 
At the hospital, we can only write one line through our mistakes on our charting or we will get called on it BIG time. No scribbles, white-out, pencils, or erasable ink allowed. I don't like putting only one line through, though. All it does is take up more time because the person going over your work will read your correct words PLUS the scribbled out ones, just so they can see what mistake you made. It'd be better to just scribble out mistakes so that no one will be tempted to waste even more time reading and contemplating your mistakes.
To top it all off, in our hospital charting, not only do we have to put one line through, we also have to write "error" above our mistake and initial it.
 
Kristi, It would be better not to make mistakes.

Jared, some of us don't like to wear belts with pricy electronics hanging off them.

Jacauie, You do seem to have some issues.
 
Ma ma j, I have to agree with both the scribbles and the spit thing. I think I'm pretty tolerant of most things but those two little habits drive me nuts.
 
i'm a fan of one line thru during the only time i put pen to paper other than for drawing: proofing. not that i do that very much either.
 
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