Rich Care Bears

A while ago, I raved about Dragon, the voice recognition software, which I use several days a week. Basically, whenever I have to write something longer than one paragraph, I put on my headset and talk my way through it.

The position of the microphone in front of my lips is critical. If it’s not just right, the wrong words appear on my monitor. Then I repeat what I intended to say, using an increasingly irritated tone of voice, like it will somehow help if the dragon knows I’m getting peeved. Eventually, I give up and type whatever I wanted to say.

This week, I got the wrong words, and, instead of getting mad, I laughed out loud. I dictated the words “rich characters” and what I got was “rich care Bears.”

I love so much about this. I love the mental image I immediately got–of a certain purple something with a rainbow on its stomach. Care Bears were Nurse Tattoo’s thing when she was a little girl; as a counselor-in-training at the YMCA Day Camp, her camp name was Care Bear. (Sorry to blow your cover, NT.)

I also love the randomly placed upper case on Bears. I don’t think I’ve ever had the opportunity to capitalize that word, since I don’t a) write headlines about wildlife or 2) pay any attention to football.

I am so easily amused.

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