please, add your own....
mine:
You're in an interview and the man you are speaking with is talking so fast, digressing so much, falling off the tracks a bit, getting back on, de-railing completely, reversing, starting from point A again, making his point *maybe* somewhere in paragraph five, that by the time you get to the last hour of the interview, you can picture the punctuation in your head and you're trying to determine how, if you were to write him as a character, that you would ever be able to punctuate him and not lose your audience in the drivel!
It's true, in my interview today he talked so long and so far off topic and back to topic then forgot his point and had to rethink it so many times that my eyes blurred and I could imagine how many sets of parenthesis, commas, semicolons, colons, and periods, (and don't even get me started on the exclamations!) it would take to properly punctuate a dictation from him.
UGH!
Lucky in the job I won't be required to punctuate anything he says!
Trish - wanted to "red pen" the entire conversation, hand it back to him and ask for a revision draft.
mine:
You're in an interview and the man you are speaking with is talking so fast, digressing so much, falling off the tracks a bit, getting back on, de-railing completely, reversing, starting from point A again, making his point *maybe* somewhere in paragraph five, that by the time you get to the last hour of the interview, you can picture the punctuation in your head and you're trying to determine how, if you were to write him as a character, that you would ever be able to punctuate him and not lose your audience in the drivel!
It's true, in my interview today he talked so long and so far off topic and back to topic then forgot his point and had to rethink it so many times that my eyes blurred and I could imagine how many sets of parenthesis, commas, semicolons, colons, and periods, (and don't even get me started on the exclamations!) it would take to properly punctuate a dictation from him.
UGH!
Lucky in the job I won't be required to punctuate anything he says!
Trish - wanted to "red pen" the entire conversation, hand it back to him and ask for a revision draft.