Annoying PFA letters

[UnquietDad]

The Chair of our PFA sends out letters which I'm sure are well-intentioned but annoy the hell out of me. For one thing, they're peppered with grammatical/syntactical oddities. Not always in-your-face howlers, but more often sentences phrased in a very odd way. This week, though, we also got "baring in mind", and lots of missing capital letters including "pfa" itself in lower-case.

And there's stuff put "in inverted commas" when it "doesn't need to be". That really "pisses me off."

Then there are all the exclamation marks!!! Sometimes she thinks not even three is enough and she has to add five!!!! or even six!!!!!! After spending a paragraph explaining something this week, she then adds "I know!! Clear as mud!!"

By the end of the letter I just "want to kill her"!!!

Go Sherlock!!

I work from home, have 3 children and am on PTA committee. YOu can call me an alpha mum if you like, I don't care.

I wrote my first letter for the PTA the other day - it has gone to our current chair and secretary for approval he he!

Shall I copy it here and you can rip it to shreds?!

Our Vice Chair is top - such a great person, knows everyone, never bloody stops driving here there and everywhere, ringing people up to get freebies and donations - she can't write for toffee (she is dyslexic for a start), admits it but is totally tireless. I won't hear anyone slagging her off (even though I am very hot on spelling and grammar really).

I cannot stand bloody whining about the PTA. I asked one mum if she'd like to be a class rep and she said 'I know what it's all about and I don't want to be part of it'. I thought 'yeah, but you don't mind your kids sitting on the nice new fecking carpets we just funded do you?'

On our PTA committee there is a freelancer (me), 2 SAHM, one part time solicitor, two full time teachers.

We are often emailing about stuff at 10pm, 11pm - not like we are just fannying about in the day doing it.