Disrespect to Maude

Tues., November 5, 2002 - Nancy came from work & we went to Staufer's Cafe.  Busy there.  We had chicken fried steak & delicious pie!  The driver this morning for the Handi-Van line was lazy!!!  He didn't even show me how to buckle the seat belt -- didn't help with the walker either getting on or off the bus!!
Wed., November 6, 2002 - No Book Club tonight.  Saw some good shows on TV.
Thurs., November 7, 2002 - Myrtle called in a.m.

Must have been a very intense day for six exclamation points to show up on just one day's activities, five of them bad exclamation points.

And in honor of the exclamation point (called the exclamation mark outside of the U.S.), here is something from wikipedia:

"Graphically the exclamation mark is represented as a full stop point with a vertical line above. One theory of its origin is that it is derived from a Latin exclamation of joy (io). The modern graphical representation is believed to have been born in the Middle Ages. Medieval copyists wrote the Latin word io at the end of a sentence to indicate joy. The word io meant "hurray". Over time, the i moved above the o, and the o became smaller, becoming a point.

The exclamation mark was first introduced into English printing in the 15th century to show emphasis, and was called the "sign of admiration or exclamation" or the "note of admiration" until the mid-17th century.

The exclamation mark did not have its own dedicated key on standard manual typewriters before the 1970s. Instead, one typed a period, backspaced, and typed an apostrophe. In the 1950s, secretarial dictation and typesetting manuals in America referred to the mark as "bang", perhaps from comic books where the ! appeared in dialogue balloons to represent a gun being fired, although the nickname probably emerged from letterpress printing. This bang usage is behind the names of the interrobang, an unconventional typographic character, and a shebang line, a feature of Unix computer systems.  In the printing world, the exclamation mark can be called a screamer, a gasper, a slammer, or a startler."