Someone actually thought these things, and thought they were interesting enough to spend several precious seconds of his life discussing them with other people. Including me. The names are made up, but I might as well tell you that they’re real, because what difference does it make? You might notice that I’ve hung onto this anecdote for two months before posting it, because I’m so overawed by it.
Hey! Jill has made up a new month! It’s called “Mayl”. Seriously, it says here “Mayl”. Not May, no, Mayl.
But what do you mean? How can this wonderous event have occurred? How can someone just make up a new month? What will this mean for my birthday? The implications are enormous. Can anyone make up a new month? I want one named after me.
See, what she’s done, on her out-of-office, she’s said she’ll be back on the 18th of Mayl.
Yes folks, it’s an anecdote about someone’s out of office, the little generic message that gets sent back to you when you e-mail someone that’s buggered off on holiday. This is how far my life has fallen, that I’m hearing sodding stories about automatically generated e-mail. Even one with a new monnth in it. So, any theories as to how this has happened?
What I think’s happened is that when she deleted “April”, she only deleted the first four characters and left the l by mistake.
Oh. You spotted a typo. And you’re laughing at it. It’s not even a typo where someone’s accidentally asked you to come on their face. They spelt a month wrong. And I’m listening to you tell this story. Oh, good, and you’re laughing. You’re openly amused and chuckling at a typo.
Of course, I said all this to him, pointing out what a shallow, easily pleased little man he is. Rather than smiling politely and being sarcastic about it on the Internet two months later. But really, fucking Mayl.
YOU ARE QUITE LITERALLY FIRED.