Big Mistakes!

I have a pet peeve:  I really turn my nose up at e-mails, texts, blogs, web information or whatever that have grammatical or spelling mistakes in them.  Why I would never let any sentence leave my computer for unknown cyber space with an error in it!  It's annoying.  It bespeaks of a lack of education which in turn looks like a lack of professionalism.  I am so much grander than that.  I am so careful and I proofread.......several times.  Well, guess what??  I am one of the terrible offenders who offend me!  With the best of intentions I type up e-mails, web fliers, texts, blogs, web site information and all kinds of things, proofread them and off they go.  Once they are "out there" and I see them again (in public print), I suddenly see the mistakes!  The typos (really they are typos, I can actually spell), the left out words, the "ofs" instead of "ifs", the "heres" instead of "hears", the misplaced or incorrect punctuation (do you put those commas and periods inside the quotation marks or outside?)........pretty much everything you can think of that makes me come off as unprofessional and uneducated is suddenly plain as day.  Well it's your mistake (and mine when I'm reading your stuff) to think of me as a lesser agent.  These things aren't unprofessional.  They are the mark of a busy, on top of everything, go-getter real estate agent who is anxious, and obviously in a hurry, to connect with buyers, sellers and all of you.

I have decided to forgive us our little bitty grammatical, symantic and spelling transgressions.  We are entirely too involved in the business of real estate to pick on each other for this nonsense.  After all, if we know we are incredibly professional and are educated to the teeth with all the important things, who cares what people like me think?

Let's just keep on connecting in cyber space by whatever means we can!