The perils of having an over-active hyperbrain that takes things in too quickly before processing.
I’ve had a few recent incidences of mis-reading something, probably because I didn’t pay enough attention or my mind works too quickly for my eyes to keep up. Or maybe it was a poor choice of font.
Either way, in these cases the results were quite comical:
| Actual sentence | What I read |
|---|---|
| Shake your way into shape | Shave your way into shape (because body hair is heavy) |
| IAEA says nuclear security improving | IKEA says nuclear security improving (that well-known furniture-turned-arms supplier) |
| 30 OAPs die in cold weather | 30 COPs die in cold weather (because today’s police force are pussies) |
| Dial-a-claim | Dial-a-clam (for when you just have to have that shellfish) |
Note to self: slow the heck down once in a while.
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