Grammar Bandit

I know I promised more to come about the NJ/NY trip, but I've been lazy about posting the rest because it is such a pain to embed the pictures (or else I just don't know how to do it an easy way...still learning). So I'm putting that off for a bit and talking about something else today.

I was driving to work this morning, and drove past Johnny's Market on Gravois. There is a little section of road in front of Johnny's Market with one of those road adopted by signs by it. It says "Employee's of Johnny's Market." The incorrect use of the apostrophe in this sign drives me crazy! When will people learn to use the apostrophe correctly? It should never be used to make a word plural. This is probably the most common grammar error I see on signage, and it is so annoying. I can remember being at a craft show ages ago where someone was selling front yard signs with families' names on them. The signs were custom, so you could pick your sign and then the guy would paint your name on. Well, all of the examples had the apostrophe used incorrectly. I really wanted to tell the guy but figured he would be offended. I wondered how many people would even notice the error and whether he lost any sales because of it.

So, while I was sitting at the stop light thinking about that this morning, I started thinking about how I would love to get some green tape and cover up that apostrophe on the adopt-a-road sign. That led to me envisioning sneaking up at night and taping the sign like some sort of grammar bandit. Then I started thinking about all of the other signs with grammar errors that need correcting...

A lone woman waging a secret war against poor grammar...saving the innocent from ignorance...providing relief to gammarians everywhere. Where will she strike next? It's the Grammar Bandit!