By Monday, I needed to go to urgent care, and I was in a foul mood.
I needed to smile. I needed to be amused.
And Idaho Falls delivered, in a frustratingly delightful way.
Driving to urgent care, I noticed the readerboard of a local church:
First of all, I love the jab toward Catholics. Good job, baptists. HOWEVER, your poke at their confessional structure fell on deaf ears because you idiots don't know how to spell 'bragging.'
Well done.
I go to urgent care, get checked out, and get my prescription. Since I never get sick, I don't have a pharmacy in town yet (2 years without meds! WOO!). Smith's grocery store is the closest place to me, so I tell them to send it there.
I get to Smith's and they tell me to wait about 20 minutes. I wander, since I can't sit still. I notice this sign, selling Colgate Toothpaste:
Cologate? Is that the toothpaste Dolemite uses?
I chuckled, took a picture, and kept walking... when I spotted this:
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| ...tronman? |
and this
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| Ultamate! |
and this
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| Listene is actually a Norwegian rock band... |
This was getting ridiculous. And fun. Smith's provided me with twenty minutes of 'find the glaring typos' entertainment!
Band-Aids is a brand, Kroger. You know you can get sued for this, right??
The sign says red, and you save $10.11... but the chopper is grey...
THIS sign says grey, and you only save 11 cents... and the chopper is red....
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| You have GOT to be kidding me... |
But wait, there's more. Time for the pain-reliever aisle!!
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Omeprazole is hard to spell, but the box is right there. Same thing with Ibuprofen...
...pain reliefer??
Two floor-stands, side by side... selling the same box of Ibuprofen...
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That makes three different INCORRECT spellings of Ibuprofen in one store.
...is it too late to add Xanax to my prescriptions??
By the end of that I was just dying from laughter. How can one store be THAT bad?! Haven't they ever heard of that nifty little invention we like to call "spell check"? At this point I'd be surprised if ANY signs are actually correct! LOL
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, that is terrible. But somehow funny.
ReplyDeleteThat's just ridiculous. Were there any signs that were without flaw? And hell yeah Cologate is Dolemite's toothpaste! Next time you and your boss go on a marathon run, refrain from farting in each other's faces, that's where the pink eye comes from.
ReplyDeleteBut but... okay... :(
ReplyDeleteHas no one in your store heard of spell check?
ReplyDeleteThis is Idaho. If you correct them, they'll say 'spell check is for queers and pussies...' I AM NOT JOKING
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh. Does this store have a customer service email or the like? I can't be the only one who would love to send them a letter *evil grin*
ReplyDeleteI can't find an email, but:
ReplyDeleteSMITH'S400 S Woodruff AveIdaho Falls ID 83401Store Phone: (208) 529-5100
Knock yourself out. :D
How in the world did you come across all of that? LOL! I'm going to start checking signs a lot closer now because it's obviously an epidemic that people can't spell.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see how many you can find... I think my idiots are dumber than your idiots...
ReplyDeleteI can't spell ibufr or what ever the hell it is called, if I have to write it on the shopping list I just put "drugs"
ReplyDeleteA fun post, but let's keep things in perspective. After all, there are six misspelled words on the Declaration of Independence.
ReplyDeleteWow! Here I was worried that Honey Boo Boo had ruined everything for us. Thanks for the reminder that there is always something worse! Worse than Honey Boo Boo though? That's a close call! ;)
ReplyDeleteI love this kind of stuff SO MUCH. But I loved that you referenced Dolemite even more.
ReplyDeleteIf they need an advertising rep they should call me...I can spell. I can even copy the spelling from the box!
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