Really, now?!?!?

Nobody’s perfect, right?  I do not profess to be even the slightest bit close to ANY level of being perfect.  And being as such, I (as we ALL are at times) am subject to ‘corrections’ and ‘criticisms’.   Of course CONSTRUCTIVE forms of the aforementioned are preferred AND typically more warmly received.  Even so, dealing with comments that are just plain RUDE, uncalled for and/or  ‘MEANT to be  hurt your feelings’ still always ‘stings’ a little.  No matter how much PRACTICE we have with dealing with them.

So, WHAT brought this ‘rant’ on and where am I going with it???  A ‘new blog reader’ left a comment for me yesterday.  The first time anyone comments on my blog, I have to ‘approve’ the comment before it’s posted.  Once I have approved a comment of yours, future comments will show up immediately, but I can still delete them if I wish.  Now I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, and I DO leave comments that offer differing opinions from mine; as long as they aren’t done in a way to ‘intentionally stir up trouble’.

But here’s what I DON’T GET!  This admittedly first time visitor to my blog felt it necessary to point out to me  ‘that I need to check my spelling and I had posts that were rife with spelling errors and that she found that to be quite bothersome.’    OH MY!!  Well I just better stop everything and spend the next YEAR going back to spell check every one of the 1,200+ posts I’ve done over the last five years so it doesn’t BOTHER you anymore!   sheesh!

I DO run the spell check with every post.  And sometimes spell check automatically CHANGES words to what it THINKS they should be.   Michael reads my blog and will let me know when I have things that need to be fixed; which I APPRECIATE.  Just as I would appreciate it if any of my other readers took the time to point out SPECIFIC typos to me that I could go back and correct.

But what IS the point that the commenter was trying to make?  It was NOT constructive at all, because there is NO possible way for me to find typing errors in my extensive blog history.   And it’s not like anyone is FORCING her to read my blog!  Why is it ANY of her business to point out my typing errors?!?!!? OH right; because it was ‘bothersome; to her!  PUHleeeze!!  (spellcheck that bothered blog reader!)

While I make every effort to have my blog grammatically correct and perfect spelling; the thought that I’ve missed a few typos here or there is not going to keep me awake at night.  The point of my blog is to share useful information, and inspire others to rebuild and reuse as the redecorate.  WHO CARES if there’s an occasional typographical error?!?!?

Dear unnamed commenter,

I have three things to say to you.

1) if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

2)  If you must criticize someone, at least make it CONSTRUCTIVE.

3) Look at the BIG picture.  Does it REALLY matter that there are a few typos in my blog???

Stepping off my soap box and going back outside to finish cleaning out the storage shed.