Re: Funniest ADD Moment — What's yours?

[Anonymous]

I went into editing as a career because I needed heavy deadline stress before I could get anything done!

Once, after spending a lot of time preparing a short bio to be posted in a directory of freelance editors, I was asked if I wanted to proofread the result myself. Of course I did! After all, nobody would be as careful as moi.

When I got the proof, I found that someone had typeset a 3 where it should have been an e. I marked the error and sent the proof back immediately, aghast at such a blatant error.

When the directory was published, I saw that there were three other, less obvious typos that (to me) had been completely overshadowed by the blatant one. There it was for all to see: evidence that I couldn’t even find typos in my own bio!

I might as well have spent the (hefty) publishing fee getting a tattoo saying “Me edit real good, aren’t I”.

Talk about “not funny at the time” — !

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