I have a newly discovered phobia. Well, phobia is too strong (or wrong) a word. I think that it is an unreasonable hatred… of exclamation marks. Even that is not fine tuned enough. My problem is really with multiple exclamation marks!!!

Every time I see an email with one or more of these little buggers the hackles on the back of my neck go up and I want to scream.

In fact just one of them makes my skin crawl, but if someone repeats that key stroke then I’m nearly fit to burst. I just don’t get it. One exclamation mark does the job. It shows me that there is energy in the sentence and that I should give it more emphasis when reading. However, when someone responds to an email (and I get this a lot at work) with a “Thanks!!!” what in Odin’s beard am I supposed to do with that? Is this person really so animated with gratitude that they are dancing around the room in yellow dungarees like some demented kids TV show host?

It is up there with people SHOUTING IN EMAILS. I hate that too. Those people are all bastards.

Furthermore, (wow this is something of a rant now) I can’t abide messages that I get from people written in TXT-speak. I can barely understand those messages, is it really so much effort to write a whole word. What the fuck do you people have against vowels anyway?

I’ll go back in my box now. Clearly something has upset me. Cant imagine what.

Thanks for listening!!!!!!!!!

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