I live in a world of misplaced apostrophes.  It seems that the use of that particular punctuation was just plain skipped in most people’s education.  Everywhere I go, there’s a sign talking about a sale on CD’s (on CD’s what?  What belonging of the CD is on sale?), or there’s a website inviting you to the award’s banquet (so nice to throw a banquet in honor of that one award).  And the itsos are everywhere!  What’s an itso, you ask?  It’s the inability to choose correctly between its and it’s… even twice within the same sentence.  And of course, apostrophes dangle their little toes into the you’re/your issue… another that seems so simple, but is so unbelievably often mistaken.  I remember driving by a church that proclaimed, in all its evangelical glory "You’re judgment is at hand!"  And Dunkin Donuts had a special on "pizza’s" not so long ago.  Of course, at the very least, those last two were temporary signs.  Some moron typed them in, and tommorrow that moron will type in something else egregiously incorrect.  But it never ceases to amaze me that people pay good money to print permanent signs and programs and websites… and no one thinks to proof read them.  Misspellings don’t usually change the meaning of the word, they’re just wrong.  But a misplaced apostrophe actually changes what you are saying.  It just gets under my skin.

My world is filled with typos.  Sometimes I even find typos in finished, printed, bought-’em-at-Barnes-&-Noble books!  How is that possible?!?!  I won’t claim that I never make a typo.  Of course I do.  And I try to coexist peacefully.  But if, one day, you turn on the news to see the still-burning remains of a billboard advertising "Firework’s… Next Exit!"… well…

There.  That is your slightly disturbing peek into my psyche for today.  Go watch some Distracted Videos or look at some Distracted Photos or something productive like that. 

Update: Our friend Rachael tried to leave a link to this article in the comments, but she was denied by our spam filter.  But the link was so good, I had to post it.  Take that, Spaminator!