For those of you who don’t know, I work in some kind of publishing.
This morning I received an email from an author asking me to confirm receipt of his faxed corrections to his article. I wrote him back saying that I did indeed receive his corrections. I hit send and then my spell-check came up. It wanted to correct the author’s name, which was French. My fingers were quicker than my mind and instead of hitting ‘ignore’, I hit ‘change’.
I immediately went to my ‘Sent Items’ folder to see what the hell his named was changed to and when I did see it, dread filled my bones. It changed his name from Dr. Jxxxx to Dr. Juicier. Yup, Dr. Juicer. Not just juicy, but juicier.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!
I went up to the “Recall Message” option and recalled the message. This rarely works, but I was hoping that in this case it would. That’s all I needed was to have an author insulted that I misspelled his name or, even worse, think I was being disrespectful. I corrected his name and then resent my email.
The day went on and I totally forgot about the email. I was busy and at around 12 PM I saw an email come through that read…”I have been called Dr. Sweetheart. I have been called Dr. Love, but really Dr. Juicier is the first time!”
I started laughing and wrote, “I’m so sorry about that. My spell-check changed your name before I noticed. I hope you laughed!”
Thankfully he said, “Out loud! Cheers.”
I’m so glad this went well, so many times doctors have no sense of humor.
And with that…tonight I’m watching sappy romance movies, feeling sorry for myself, and going to bed early with a book. I live a wild life. Fuck yeah.
