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Note to File: We are a One Car Family*

22 November, 2017
Posted in: Boys, Daniel, Michael, Mr. Waffle, Princess, Work

I was away overnight for work. Usually I take the train to meetings if at all possible but due to a combination of difficult times and location, I drove on this occasion. I rang Mr. Waffle from the hotel this morning to see how things had gone in my absence. “Fine,” he said, “but I felt a bit bad sending the kids out on their bikes in the lashing rain.” “Not that bad,” I thought to myself, “or he could have given them a lift.” When I got home this evening, Michael was a little ball of bitterness about his damp school commute. “You should have asked your father for a lift,” I said. “And where, mother, was the car?” “Oh right, yeah, Kilkenny, sorry about that.”

*I have spent more time trying to decide how to capitalise this title than writing the blog post; advice welcome my lovely readers.

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  1. disgruntled says

    22 November, 2017 at 21:20

    An editor writes – in title case, capitalise all words except articles, prepositions and conjunctions (or what you’d signal as a ‘little word’ in charades). For some style guides you also capitalise the first word after a colon regardless. Strictly speaking you should probably have capitalised ‘Are’ there. I’d have considered hyphenating ‘one car’ too.

  2. Oana says

    22 November, 2017 at 21:50

    I capitalize the Are =)

  3. belgianwaffle says

    23 November, 2017 at 21:06

    Thank you! Are was such a short word, it just looked wrong even though as a verb I felt it needed a capital. Hyphen is exciting proposal also.

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