autocorrect is my nemesis. it puts apostrophes where apostrophes have no business being and caps words i intended to leave lower case in
feeble attempts to seem cool
.
i once attempted to text: [shaking fist at autocorrect], but it autocorrected to “shaking fish,” which is a thing i have never done. it changes “all” to “ask” every single time. i haven’t even once meant “we should ask go to a movie.”
there was the time my wife texted, “what is your post-surgery plan?” i was alarmed. i had no idea i had any sort of surgery scheduled. how it decided “post-surgery” was a better option than “post-work” is beyond me. and even though we’re very open about body parts in our house, i swear she meant to tell me a smartphone would fit “in her bag,” not the other word, which starts with a v.
what does autocorrect know about our parenting that we don’t? it wants me to say “os” instead of “us,” which i imagine is because i spend so much time trying to figure out my kids’ operating systems. and “hegemonies” instead of “heh” because i ought to spend less time laughing at my own jokes and more time cementing my authority.
“maybe stop at a plato,” my wife once texted me. i prefer playlands to metaphysical theory, to be honest. “i got us marble bags!” she said another time. they were bagels, actually, which is unfortunate since we’re clearly a few marbles short.