I'm way too obsessed with minor grammatical points for my own damn good. I probably deserve to be slapped.
Oh, never say that! Spelling doesn't matter, but grammar is what separates us from the apes.
I like that. Can I use that?
I read a funny New Yorker cartoon a while ago that showed one person saying to another, "Why is art education funding the first thing to be cut, when you just know that art is the one thing separating us from the apes?" I loved that, but I like yours better. You better not encourage me, however. Or Sarah, for that matter.
About the whole crybaby thing -- who did everyone want to castigate more, the inattentive dad or the stupid store clerk? I'm not sure myself.