Today Is National Punctuation Day.

And what did you do for your favorite punctuation mark?

I didn’t know until the radio announced it as I was driving into work. It was too late; all the semi-colons had already made plans to celebrate with someone else. So, I called the question marks. Seems they are intensely popular, too. On down the line, I was rejected again and again, until finally an ampersand agreed to have a drink with me after work. I know, ampersands are not technically punctuation marks, but they are damn close. And it had an opening on its calendar.

Moral of the story: plan in advance! (Oh, and commas can be downright rude if they know you’ve gone through all the other punctuation marks before you ask them out.)