Saturday 26 February 2011

Misreading the signs

It's getting silly.

Earlier today, passing a bank or building society, I read an advert which, to me at least, read

Give your child the gift of starving

WHAT??? Was my immediate response, before I reread and saw that it was actually

Give your child the gift of saving

I'm not even trying to make this stuff up, this was as much of a genuine misreading as the many others that I've posted. What it says about me, well...

6 comments:

Fire Byrd said...

Your sign dyslexia is getting as batty as you.
Prescription; sleep and saving oops starving yourself for alcohol!
xx

Zhoen said...

Swiftian.

Beth said...

I'm starting to think that your brain thinks you enjoy this and is helpfully suggesting misreadings without you being aware of it :)

trousers said...

B, there may be something in that - it sounds plausible to me..

Beth said...

as long as being aware of that doesn't stop it happening, that's ok by me :)

trousers said...

It doesn't appear to have done, at least on today's evidence :)