Humor

Some years back when my sister and I both had young children, I asked her why she didn't correct those usages from her children. She rather airily replied that they'd hear the correct usage from her (which they did) and would shift over to the correct usage. I knew then that wouldn't happen, and of course it didn't.

Meanwhile, because I'm such a grammar Nazi, my grown sons use lie and lay correctly.

Some years back, whenever a co-worker would post some sort of note on the communal bulletin board, I'd cheerfully make grammar and usage corrections. After a while, the co-workers would ask me to proof their notes before they posted them.

I have given serious thought to always having a bottle of white-out with me to correct the many errors I see in public.