I know that Mommy would not make a very good secretary because I have seen her typing. Actually, her typing is pretty good, but she makes mistakes sometimes that are very funny. Well, I think they are funny, but the people she types them for do not.
One of the words she has trouble with is public. She keeps forgetting to type the letter "l" into the word. For example, one time her book publisher called her at the last minute. The publisher was laughing, but she wanted Mommy to make a change real fast. Instead of "public events," Mommy had typed "pubic events."
Daddy knows what that mistake is like. Once Mommy typed his resume, and he distributed it all over Pittsburgh. He stopped sending it out, however, when he got a call from one potential employer. Mommy had typed that Daddy had "extensive experience in pubic relations." Daddy types his own resumes now.
One time Mommy applied for a grant to go to Siberia. She wanted Daddy and us to go with her. She typed that in the application.
When she was interviewed for the grant, one of the interviewers asked her, if she thought that Daddy should go to Russia with her, given his problem and the nature of Russian society. Mommy did not understand. The interviewer did not want to spell things out.
"Well, you know, the problem you mention in the application," he said.
Mommy still did not understand.
"Well, you know that in Russia people drink a lot more than in the United States," the interviewer explained. "So do you really think it is wise to take your husband, with his problem, with you?"
"What problem?" Mommy demanded to know. She was really confused.
"This one," the interviewer responded, He handed her application to her and pointed out what she had typed: "Souse and children will accompany me."
Daddy won't let Mommy type anything anymore. I think he made the right decision.
Conclusion: I know what to get Mommy for Christmas: typing lessons.
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I thought it was about time for another of Doah's stories. This story is excerpted from a collection of vignettes that I helped Doah, my severely mentally challenged youngest son, to write and publish several years ago (copyright 2003). It was my attempt to help him understand literacy and the purpose of writing and reading.
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- Elizabeth Mahlou
- I am the mother of 4 birth children (plus 3 others who lived with us) and grandmother of 2, all of them exceptional children. Married for 42 years, I grew up in Maine, live in California, and work in many places in education, linguistics, and program management. In my spare time, I rescue and tame feral cats and have the scars to prove it. A long-time ignorantly blissful atheist converted by a theophanic experience to Catholicism, I am now a joyful catechist. Oh, I also authored a dozen books, two under my pen name of Mahlou (Blest Atheist and A Believer-in-Waiting's First Encounters with God).
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Oh I was laughing until I had tears in my eyes...thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Val. It is pretty funny now. It was not so funny when these things happened!
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny! I hope you have overcome the typos now!!
ReplyDeleteYou son is a blessing indeed!
Bless you and joy always,
Susan
Don't let iPhone spell correct for you either - that is window of Mal-iPropisms too! xx
ReplyDeleteLOL! Great post!
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious! I couldn't be funnier if I tried...lol!
ReplyDeleteFunny! This one had me giggling. Ahhh! Life is good, especially with a good laugh at the end of the day:)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteAnd what a wonderful project for you and your son to work on together.
Sweet dreams.