Of Carbon Paper and Spelling.

 

Yes, we can still purchase carbon paper.  Who'ld thunk so?

Remember when you found a sheet of unused or semi-used carbon paper when you were a child?  What fun.

Remember when you paid by credit card and the cashier/clerk had a little machine which made a carbon copy of your card, and you signed the top copy?  Remember how you made sure that the cashier/clerk tore up the carbon paper lest it be used for fraud.

A common but silly punishment for minor infractions of  school rules was to be given "one hundred lines", i.e. to write "I must not talk in class" one hundred times.  What a chore.  Some wiseacre school children tried to cheat by writing fifty lines with a sheet of carbon paper magically creating one hundred.  D'ya think that fooled the teachers?

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Today I had to write a letter to FPL  (Florida Power and Light) to protest an erroneous charge.  

My computer printer is having a hissy fit and will not print documents.   So (shock, horror, disbelief)  I had to hand write the letter. How I wished that I had a piece of carbon paper to make a copy.

I didn't have good writing paper so (how tacky!) I had to use a yellow and lined pad (legal size),  

My spelling at first betrayed me.  I wrote the word delinquent as delingquent.  My computer spell check would have questioned my spelling.

As it was I  spotted the error and crossed out the g.

Take One Hundred Lines.  Learn how to spell delinquent.