Thursday, January 08, 2009


What in the world is the problem with people and the word "bring"? Why so much misuse of it? Example:
A worker brings carts back into a Walmart store in Westminster, Colorado in this August 14, 2008 file photograph. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

We can see the employee is NOT in the store, that he is TAKING the carts back to the store. Are people really so stupid they don't know the difference between "bring" and "take"?
"Bring" things TO ME.
"Take" things TO SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Go and take go together.
Come and bring go together.

If we are at home, talking about you going to the store, a correct conversation would be:

Honey, TAKE the car to Wal-Mart and remember to TAKE enough money. BRING me back some Fugi apples if they are on sale. TAKE some to Sally too, if you drive by her house on the way home. Suzi said she wanted us to BRING her some cat food the next time we went to the store, so don't forget to TAKE some cat food to her.

The bank wanted us to BRING in our copy of the contract for the car, so don't forget to TAKE that with you too.

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Looking at photos I see one of the inhaler I had just bought at my local Bi-Mart pharmacy in Salem here. But I paid $19.00 using my insurance. And I see:

Environmentally-friendly HFA asthma rescue inhalers hit shelves this week to replace CFC-based inhalers, which will not be available after Dec. 31 per an FDA mandate. Walmart's HFA rescue inhalers start at $9.

(PRNewsFoto/Wal-Mart Stores, Inc)

I will have to check that out. Always someway us poor people are paying too much, it seems. I don't know if the box he is holding is the $9 one or not. It IS showing a box like the one I bought for $19. I'll have to TAKE that up with them the next time I go to the pharmacy, can't forget to BRING it to their attention.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.savecfcinhalers.org
If you are unhappy with the new HFA inhalers, kindly sign the petition to save CFC inhalers.

http://www.savecfcinhalers.org
The National Campaign to Save CFC Asthma Inhalers

Ken said...

Well, I went and signed the petition and signed up for their newsletter on https://www.savecfcinhalers.org/

That new HFA inhaler they gave me doesn't work worth a damn. If it wasn't "broke" (the CFC inhalers) why do they want to "fix" it with HFA inhalers that don't even work as well or at all? All about the money, right?