OP,

Uh, this is becaus they hire idiots who do not know how to write.

Anonymous wrote:And why do waiters always ask if you want freshly ground pepper? No, I prefer old, stale pepper that was ground during the Truman Administration.

I have a fear of mustard.

OP that's one hell of a weirdo pet peeve. But, hey, I have a balloon phobia so who am I to talk?

And why do waiters always ask if you want freshly ground pepper? No, I prefer old, stale pepper that was ground during the Truman Administration.

I subscribe to Living Social, Groupon, Deal Find to get great values on all kinds of stuff for my family. But I'm about one more ad away from ditching all of this just because I get so irritated by the ads themselves. There's always some lead-in that's completely stupd and irrelevant to the product being pitched. And I just wonder who in the world gets paid to write so badly? I know, this is the tiniest of things worth complaining about, but I really wish they'd cut it out.

Here's one I received today for a photo shoot:

"Despite its ode to the industrial revolution, using your grandfather's coal powered camera for the family portrait could take weeks, so . . ."

What the @#$! does the industrial revolution have to do with a family portrait? Ugh.