I was folding laundry last night in our bedroom and listening to the weather radio (as you may recall, I've christened it the "Bajeebus Alarm"). There was a little bit of soggy weather in the area - a nice change from the 90+ degrees of the previous two days - and the automated voice was giving an update of the borderline-stormy weather nearby.
The weather robot giving the update must have been modeled after Ron Burgundy, because he will truly read anything that's on the teleprompter. I say this because I was listening, and it said:
"... elsewhere, mostly scattered showers extended from near Seymour ... north across the Columbus area into southwest Rush County. These may produce an (garbled) quarter-inch as they continue moving northeast at 15 mph."
My ears perked up at the garbled portion of the sentence ... "What the hell was that???"
I waited about 5 minutes for the robot to read the update again, and there was indeed something garbled there. "Is that word supposed to be 'additional'?" I thought. "Because it sure sounds like 'addiontal.'" Made sense in the context of the sentence.
I logged onto the National Weather Service website and checked the short-term forecast for that area. Sure enough, here was the text of the update:
"ELSEWHERE MOSTLY SCATTERED SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NEAR SEYMOUR...NORTH ACROSS THE COLUMBUS AREA INTO SOUTHWEST RUSH COUNTY. THESE MAY PRODUCE AN ADDIONTAL QUARTER INCH AS THEY CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH."
Hee! "Addiontal!"
It's the little things like that that bring laughter into my life.
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