First, I’m sorry I have been extremely slacking with updating this thing for the past couple months. It’s just been a crazy time between the snow and planning for the upcoming months, I’ve been busy. Also, not having an internet connection at home is greatly hindering my ability to post random updates of janky people in/around the Baltimore area.
Anyways, I thought that this entry could sort of just go over a small pet peeve of mine; one that many of you may not know about. I don’t have many pet peeves, outside of bad drivers, stupid people, the entire New York Yankees roster, ketchup-haters and the Manning sisters. I try to be as chill as I can and my frustrations usually come from a case-by-case situation. Though, recently, I have discovered that a HUGE pet peeve of mine are people who refer to Johns Hopkins as John Hopkins.
You probably don’t think that it’s a huge deal, but when you attend and work at one of the best medical institutions in the country, and perhaps the world, you have a little Hopkins pride and wonder why it is so hard for people to put that “s” on the end of that “John”. It was a guy’s name, people! RESPECT.
I know what you’re thinking. Now, Katie, how often can that REALLY happen? Plus, people in Baltimore or from other medical institutions MUST get it right, so you probably only get that from out-of-towners or people who aren’t very smart, right? Wrong.
Exhibit A: Getting a letter from another medical institution.
What the hell is wrong with people? When you are writing a letter, asking one of the doctors here to give a recommendation to a student at your institution, spell the freaking name of our institution correctly. Honestly. And don’t say it’s because you aren’t in/around Baltimore, either. You’re a medical center, and you don’t know Johns Hopkins? Wow
Exhibit B: The local grocery store looking for donations. No, I will not be giving money to you, since you cannot spell. Maybe you should take that money and put it towards literacy levels amongst your employees. *sigh*
Finally, exhibit C: Old FedEx slips from within my very own department. You know that someone has to be a special breed of moron when they themselves are sending out FedEx slips that have the instiution for which they work spelled incorrectly. I can’t imagine why this person no longer works here….
So please, kids, spell it correctly. Or, I’ll post on the blog how dumb you are and why I shouldn’t be friends with you any more. 
