Recently at the southbound platform at Atlanta's Midtown Station, MARTA put up a large white board with magnetic letters encouraging commuters to “spell an affectionate word, food for thought, or a poetic sentence for your fellow passengers.” These kind of initiatives (this one is called #railtalkATL) never hit me right. Instead of giving me warm and fuzzy feelings about public transportation worth sharing, my initial reaction was: “Don’t these people who think this stuff up have better things to do like keeping the trains running consistently?”
Apparently, judging from the affectionate words and thoughts shown here, my fellow commuters felt much the same.
I was thinking of rearranging the letters to:
If u cn rd
ths u prbbly
cnnt spll
This joke comes from the cover of a collection of cartoons called MacDoodle Street (1980) by Mark Alan Stamaty (note the circled text). But before I could act, the white board was removed. See? Atlanta is coming together as a city.