I think the success of Roy’s system is less “I can find my wife in a crowd when we both make this noise” and is more “People in the crowd back away from my wife and I when we make this noise, thus making it easier to spot one another”.
There are three kinds of pointless letter:
- Poorly-argued anti-minority nonsense
- Complaints about other people’s grammar
- Charmingly bizarre anecodotes.
The third kind are my favourite and this the third kind
( ozymandias271, we need to think of weird noises to make when I come to America)
this is so totally in contravention of Normal Social Rules for Public Behavior, I love it