Thank you everybody for correcting my spelings and grammer.

This is not new to me. I’ve always had trouble with spellings. Over the years, I’ve learnt to take criticism very well - I ignore it.

If you thought my spellings were bad, you haven’t seen my handwriting yet. My regular handwriting looks like this:

This one time in school, the teacher gave us so much homework that I decided to mount a protest. I wrote the homework in such pathetic handwriting, that even by my own low standards, the handwriting was pretty bad. I was satisfied with the end result - My homework looked like the Indus Valley Script - Completely indecipherable.

I submitted the homework, and the next day, the teacher actually called out on me.

Teacher: “Class, Aditya has done such a good job with his homework, that I am going to ask him to come out and read it out so that all off you can learn from it.”
Me: “Eh? The teacher liked my homework? I know she taught history, but can she really read the Indus Valley Script?”

I walked up to the front of the class, and the teacher handed me the book. I opened it, and saw my own handwriting. It was looking much worse than I remembered writing it. IT seemed like there was a battle between the words on the page, and someone had shot a cannon at the words, and they’d all scattered and fallen everywhere from the resulting explosion. How on earth was I going to read this thing?

Me: “Err…Ma’am, I think my Homework has been under attack.”
Teacher: “So you can’t read your own handwriting, eh?”
Me: “Ma’am, I assure you. The letters were all just fine yesterday when I submitted them. They must have gotten lazy and fallen off from the line. Or maybe they slipped”
Teacher: “Why don’t you just try to focus yourself? A good handwriting will bring you a lifetime of happiness.”
Me: “Yesterday, there was a documentary on how the computer would make handwriting obsolete. It was very good. Did you watch it?”
Teacher: “I’ve had enough. You will write ‘I will improve my handwriting’ one hundred times”

And so I wrote this pointless assignment yet again. I don’t see how this improved my handwriting, but it seemed to satisfy the teacher.

I’ll bet she’ll be proud now - Despite the latest software having built-in spell checkers, grammar checkers and the best of all - the ‘preview’ button, I still make spelling and grammar mistakes. As they say, You can try to make software idiot proof, but a better idiot will always come along.

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