messy fingers

Delighted to see little red boat's blog updated, and even more amused when her comment on accidentally signing an email off with 'Cheese' instead of 'Cheers' made me snort painfully fizzy Marks and Spencer Cranberry and Blood Orange Presse through my nose. (Well, if you're going to laugh something fizzy out of your nose, you might as well go the whole hog and go for the posh stuff I suppose...)

Typos in letters and emails. Often frustrating (you would not believe how many people address me by my surname which 1. Does not look like a first name and 2. MY NAME IS RIGHT THERE IN MY WORK EMAIL ADDRESS HOW CAN YOU MISS THIS?). I often suffer from 'messy fingers' when touch typing, and it gets worse if I'm feeling a bit down in the mouth. My colleagues have been known to shout:

"Where's my booking?"
"In the Cnnib room" (Common. My hands slipped on the form)

My largest clangers are the ones I fail to spot before sending, such as the time I had to write a terribly formal email and included the phrase,

"I have referred this discussion to my manger, who will be able to advise if you have any further queries."

Or it will once the oxen stop feeding on it.


Not as bad, yet, as one Quite High Up Person in a job I was once in sent an email out to the whole company and missed off a vital letter. So their email began:

"Hell!"

Let's just say I left it to someone else to point that one out. Yowch.