Can you speak your native tongue?

Got a nice note from a reader named Karen Buck about a fracas that I had recently with a self-appointed member of the grammar police:

“Hi Dan! Enjoyed, as usual, your column, but really laughed about the jury-rigged grammar policewoman! I suffer from a bit of grammar policing myself. My mother was a real stickler. I have been known to take those rampant apostrophes off of dry boards that announce such things as ‘two egg’s.’ ‘Two eggs’ WHAT?? But my latest bit of total annoyance is newpaper stories, reporters, newscasters, whomever, saying, ‘He ran him over with his car.’ Ran him over what, the curb? a cliff? WHAT?? You don’t RUN PEOPLE OVER, you RUN OVER PEOPLE!!!!!

“But, I know I tilt at windmills . Keeps me occupied, I suppose. As for the jury-rigged thing, I would have made darnn sure I looked it up before daring to correct.

“Write on!”

Thanks, Karen. I wonder how many other grammatical nightmares there are out there?