How do you know when you have been reading too much "special needs" material?
1. I was looking through the mail and saw a solicitation from an environmental organization:
Join now and get your FREE BIPOLAR TEEN!
2. This is what I thought I read in review of a book of collected literature by parents of special needs children, so not everyday advice, but literary-type stuff:
"It is a must buy book for anyone who [...] transports young people with disabilities."
I can only see a minority of bus drivers enjoying this type of book.
3. What I first saw in a professional-looking bio on a parent/community website:
"She enjoys watching people eat desserts."
Is that an unusual hobby, or am I out of style?
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The actual words
1. Free polar bear tote
2. Supports, not transports.
3. She enjoys people-watching and eating desserts.
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Only the first misread was due to information overload; the other errors were caused by plain old eyestrain.
If you don't find this sort of thing funny, then you haven't spent five minutes at 7:00 each morning for six weeks, with tears streaming down your face, trying not to make a sound so as not to wake up your hosts, while you are laughing so hard reading this book by Richard Lederer.
Join now and get your free bipolar teen? I'm sure that advertising would really rake in the dough! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check out that book. Sounds pretty funny.
~Jess