Kid: Hi, I work for the Orange County Register.
Suz: [They hire high schoolers now?] Hi.
Kid: So…are you interested?
Suz: In…what?
Kid: A subscription.
Suz: Oh. No, not really. I prefer the Los Angeles Times.
Kid: Are you sure?
Suz: Yes.
Kid: Okay. Bye.
Suz: Later.
I did not explain to the child that I've basically held a grudge against the OCR since they decided to try outsourcing copy editing in 2008. "Oh, this will be bad news," I said when I read it.
A few months later, my company fired 95% of their copy editors.
A pox on you, OCR.
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