[Cries In Editor]

I’ve just proofread a book for a client. Before we started going through the corrections, my client asked me if I had found any mistakes.

Me: “Honestly, there’s no page without errors. They’re mostly comma mistakes.”

Client: “Oh, my God! I don’t believe in comma rules! Who is anyone to tell me where to put commas?!” *Pauses for a moment* “Well, okay. Let’s start. But if I have the feeling that a comma is right, we leave it.”

Altogether, we spent thirty-two hours getting through 224 pages.