I love the holiday season. I love the sense of excitement that exists for the entire month of December. I love listening to Christmas carols and trimming the tree. I love the little things that people do for each other all month (though I wish people could remember to be so kind and thoughtful the rest of the year). And this year I'm really enjoying the sense of wonder and joy that only a two year old can bring to the holiday.
There's one thing I don't love, though; the bad grammar that runs rampant all frigging season. I swear if I get ONE. MORE. CHRISTMAS. CARD from the "Smith's" I will run naked down the center of Assembly Street screaming "POSSESSIVE, NOT PLURAL! POSSESSIVE, NOT PLURAL" until a member of Columbia's finest comes to arrest me. WHY can people not remember that apostrophes DO NOT make things plural? That's what the damn S is for. The apostrophe should only be used to show possession, people. And if it's your damn Christmas card, why did you send it to me?
And as if getting these things in the mail wasn't enough, yesterday I got a gift from one of my coworkers, which was very sweet and terribly thoughtful, but the tag read "Merry Christmas, from the Doe's." It made me want to run into her office and say "from your what? Your dog? Your house? Your car? Well whatever it was of yours that gave the gift to me, please tell it thanks." And this morning on a blog, I noticed someone talking about a visit from the in-laws by saying "the Roe's were visiting."
This probably makes me sound like a Grinch, and I really don't mean to be. I love getting Christmas cards and unexpected gifts and even hearing about people's holiday plans. But I think maybe next year, all the offenders on my Christmas card list are getting a copy of Strunk & White as their gift.