"The Seventh Sense"
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of plural word "Book's" with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to prepetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.
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Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us blind to our plight. ...We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.
From Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
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