I was in Hastings a few days ago looking for a Hard copy of a book that I purchased on my Amazon Kindle. Funny enough with this situation it is a diet book and I wanted to look at it on my Kindle before committing. Also, when I try a diet, I am always making copies out of the book to take everywhere with me anyway (grocery store, etc).
After looking at it, I decided I wanted the hard copy of the Ultimate Tea Diet. When I went to Hastings I couldn't find it and needed some help. We were looking for the book, and I told the guy, "this book seems to be eluding me today." He said "Wow, you must be a reader all right." I was dumbfounded. Is that really that big of a word?
Since using my Kindle I have been using better vocabulary. I can't always spell it, but I am working on that too. At work in the past, I would use "big" words and would be made fun of by fellow workers, "Hey lets get out the dictionary around her." In order to try to fit in, I just stopped using large words. Since some of it is coming back (if you don't use it, you lose it), I'm not going to be goaded into dropping it. They'll just have to crack open a dictionary.
Now if I'm speaking around some other people I know, I still don't sound very intelligent because they are writers, English majors, etc. I'm just a little Math major. But hey, at least I'm trying man!!
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