Dating Tip: Don't Date Semipro Hockey Players

Or, at least this one.

Jay Rosehill, twenty-two-year-old defenseman for the Norfolk Admirals (he's #8 and shoots left) was charged with third-degree grand larceny for stealing a car early this morning. In town to play the Binghamton Senators this evening, Mr. Rosehill decided to patronize a local adult entertainment club late last night. An employee of this club had turned her car on in the parking lot to warm it up, leaving it running and unattended. With the sense of entitlement semipro hockey players garner, Mr. Rosehill assumed this meant she was giving him her car. He hopped in and drove it to another adult entertainment club up the road.

However, this employee was in fact not giving her car to him, and quickly told the cops so. At 1:25 a.m. cops found the car at the other adult entertainment club, and saw the adroit defenseman running away from the car. He's currently being held without bail and waiting for further action in Broome County Court.

I wonder if this is a 15 minute penalty.

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Good job Sara and Gregg. I'm so proud of you!
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In this edition of Why the World Needs Copy Editors:

The following is a section head in the book I’m editing:
Is there a place for psycho education?

Interesting question. I’m sure many psychos utilize the public school system. Prisons have libraries and education classes, so incarcerated psychos have a place to be educated. Magazine subscriptions are available to psychos, as are bookstores, libraries, and the Internet, so, actually, many places exist for psycho education. Or do you mean “should psychos be educated?” Well, I think everybody should be educated, perhaps especially psychos. It may help them with their psychoness. That’s not what you mean either?

Let’s see. “Is there” is quite vague, which led to my confusion. And since the paragraph that followed did not talk about where psychos can be educated or whether psychos should be educated, I’m led to believe that “psycho education” should be “psychoeducation.” So, after a brief review of the section, I took my magic pencil (or magic electronic tracked changes) and changed this heading to: “Is Psychoeducation Useful?”

This heading did not involve your typical, everyday typo or misspelled/misused words. In fact, you may not have even known anything was wrong with the heading until I enlightened you. (You’re welcome.) However, had I not changed this heading, others may have been as confused as I was, or, even worse, some readers may have gone on to write “psycho education” on a paper or exam and perpetuate the error. Even though it would have been so, so funny to leave it as it was, I, for the betterment of everything in the world, changed the heading.

Want even more of me?

If you enjoy reading my blog (or even if you don't), please visit my new Associated Content page here. Make a shortcut on your desktop and check it every five minutes . . . not because it will have new stuff every five minutes, but because I will get paid incrementally by page hits. I need at least one thousand hits to receive a performance payment, but what the heck, I'm ambitious, and poor. For some content I will receive upfront payments, but for other articles I will be paid by visitor count only.

This won't make me rich, but it may let me get an extra shot or two in my latte, movie admission, maybe a tank of gas if what I write is awesome. I like writing, I do it all of the time, so it makes sense to me, especially with the hubby in college and my company's pending closing, to make a little money from it if I can.

I've continued and will continue to offer writing tips on the AC site (you know you love them), and I'll also be writing social commentary, opinion pieces, maybe some reviews. I will be contributing often. I'm still keeping this blog, which now may become even more self-indulgent, so don't worry about not being informed about my rants, musings, and weirdoness.