1. Answering the phone by saying my name instead of by saying "hello". Some junk mail caller got all stroppy at me the other day because I wouldn't tell him my name. He didn't seem to know how to proceed if he couldn't call me Madame whoever.
2. Writing 1s, 7s and 9s with all their extra tails and lines.
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I learned to do the 7s and 1s the Swiss way because I had a German teacher who TOOK POINTS OFF MY LANGUAGE HOMEWORK when I wrote them the US way. Even if it was just the date or the exercise number and not an integral part of the assignment. What a jerk. (She didn't seem to care about the 9s)
!! That's so appalling! I would have stubbornly refused to ever write them her way, and I would have complained about it to everyone at every chance I got. What an outrage.
I know what the euro-style 7s look like but what do they do to 1s and 9s?
they look kinda like the ones you type - the 9s have a curly tail (like an upside down 6) and the 1s have the little line on the left. Except it usually turns into a huge line that is almost as long as the vertical line, and it looks like either a tent (without a bottom) or a 7 (which is confusing. especially when reto starts a sudoku then leaves it half-finished and I find it and try to finish it)
I hate that "tent" one. And for some reason, it always looks wrong when I do it. It must be my hatred flowing through the pen into my writing.
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