Imagine my surprise, officer, when the dashboard began to light up with triple word scores and with plays of three letters that actually create four words. I've always been taught that only defensive driving pays off, but this reckless abandon with words has, twice this very week, put me on the curb, waiting for pick-up by the vocabulary equivalent of the truck to the landfill.
My plan to become a professional Scrabble player will require a bit more effort, and a whole lot more "X", "QU" and "Z"s, if it turns out that my darkest secret--my rather second rate mind--is going to be an issue in my quest for the top. I guess that's why I don't have a commercial permit for teaching literature, but only for speaking words that I hope will sound persuasive.
Isn't there some kind of ticket you can issue, officer, for reckless endangerment of the language?