so i just got back from the walmart. that place is terrible. the entire time random sales people follow you around trying to get you to buy cable or gym memberships or cell phones. also some man tried to convince me that i should subscribe to the newspaper. doesn't he know this isn't 1927?? get out of my face. i had to talk to him for a long time (probably 30 seconds... BAH) about why i don't want the newspaper. i should have just told him i was illiterate. that would have been a good excuse. but if you're going with that excuse you really have to lead with it.
anyway, i remembered another embarrassing moment that wasn't embarrassing but would have been if i was a normal person. the reason i remembered this story was because today's google doodle is for the 161st anniversary of moby dick.
i think i would have been embarrassed when this happened if i wasn't so distracted by the fact that i was right and everyone else was wrong. ok here it is...
so i was with some friends and we were discussing what you call it when you have multiple copies of the book of mormon. i would like to have on the record that my current stance is that the plural of the book of mormon is "copies of the book of mormon." the war we were having was everyone in the room against me. everyone else was saying it is books of mormon and i was saying it was book of mormons. i was clearly correct because you wouldn't pluralize a random word in the title. you would use the last word. the majority of the room stopped listening but one girl and i were still fighting about it and i was getting really angry.
and then in one of those moments when the room gets inexplicably quiet, i yelled 'it's just like moby dick... YOU SAY MOBY DICKS, NOT MOBYS DICK!!!'
at which point everyone stopped and stared at me while what i had just yelled sunk in. and then half the people laughed and the other half said 'why did you just say that?!' actually i think the halves switched back forth... taking turns laughing and then yelling at me.
anyway, i was totally right. and i'm pretty sure they will all always remember that from now on.
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For the record, I laughed out loud. Literally. still giggling..... :D
That's hilarious! Also, I like the excuse of "I'm illiterate."
Also I agree with "copies of the Book of Mormon" it is definitely the only way to go.
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