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#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Oct 2, 2025

I was furiously typing a paper in high school that was due and did not notice that I had transposed Juan to Jaun on the whole report. Since it was a paper about him he was mentioned a lot. The teacher's assistant marked me down for every time it was spelled wrong. I got a very low score.

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Lollipop, do you remember those typo erasers that looked like a pencil with a brush on one end? Correcting typos was a real art. Especially if there were carbon copies.

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I remember the crying.

I worked typing invoices for a hardware store in Tempe, AZ and ASU was their biggest customer. I had to deliver the invoices in person on a certain schedule to a man whose last name was Swearingin. I was rushing out to deliver a batch and looked down at what I had typed and I had typed the cover page to the attention of Mr. Swearubgub.

Completely understandable, Norma, an honest if hilarious mistake.

I remember both the erasers, which often either tore the paper or created streaks, and the correction tape. There was no point trying to correct a typo unless you were still on the top half of the page, because if you tried to roll the platen down from near the bottom to move the typo higher up, the paper would get misaligned, especially if there were carbon copies. There was no chance you'd get a correction key strike in exactly the right position. I don't remember crying, but I'm pretty sure it's why I first allowed myself to swear out loud. I never got to use the revolutionary new Liquid Paper and Wite-Out because they weren't available in Canada until the late 1960s, by which time I was already done with university. Since my work was still manual I no longer had a reason to type.

In the office where I worked we were like kittens with new toys. We had those electric typewriters with the balls and carbon tape. When the boss gave us each some correction paper we all just sat testing it over and over with a lot of wows being said. It was revolutionary taking something so difficult and making it so simple.

When I take notes, I almost always spell "behind" as "behing," because that -ing just flows out of my pen.

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Awesome!

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ROFL

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