Are They For Real???...

I'm slightly anal-retentive (thanks, Dad!!), and every so often, I come across things that amaze me and leave me in disbelief...

like when something is misspelled in a magazine or newspaper, for instance.

But I am more so overly shocked when a product has a misspelling. It makes me think, "The factory, the company who developed this, the marketing team, the distributors, the stores, etc. ... no one caught this??"

For instance, in baby items, I've come across two things thus far that drive me crazy.

First is Casey's co-sleeper. It says on all four sides (which I get to read several times each night):

"Must lock ALL Top Bars before locking lower bars. To UNLOCK top bars, lower bars must be unlocked first."

Now, maybe this is extremely anal-retentive, but I can't stand that "Top Bars" is capitalized in the first sentence but not in the second. And "lower bars" is never capitalized. So why does that first sentence have "Top Bars" as if they are a proper noun??? And in the first sentence, "ALL" is in caps - in the second, "UNLOCK" is. But it's not like the word "lock" is in caps in the first sentence, so why is "UNLOCK" in the second?? Should the warning instead read something like, "Must lock ALL top bars before locking lower bars. To unlock top bars, lower bars must be unlocked FIRST." Who knows??













And then, this one really gets my goat - on our walker (the same one that my parents had in their home years ago, so I know it's not a new product where no one yet had a chance to catch this typo), the box actually says, in huge letters on all six sides:

"In compiance with the CPSC mandated ASTM standard for walkers."

Really?? "In compiance with..."??? Not, "compliance"????

It just drives me crazy!

(And if I ever misspell anything in my posts, I apologize in advance!)