I decided today that I need to be more tolerant when reading documents with grammatical errors and misspellings. I often read documents at work with a red pen in hand, correcting as I go along. It’s more for my own comfort than to educate the writer. The errors pop out at me and I just have to fix them. I think I inherited a teaching gene (not surprising, both of my parents have been teachers). I know it is difficult to edit and correct your own writing, so I’m not trying to show off my superior knowledge or make anyone feel incompetent. I just have this need to fix the errors in order to continue reading comfortably. I think I’ll try to learn how to use this rather anal characteristic only when I need to. I often see hand printed corrections in books that I take out of the library so I know I’m not the only person out there like this. At least I don’t mark up library books. (That’s not to say that I haven’t wanted to.)