I’m only mean about it to Chuckles.
Yes, you get a pass — for now. I’ll let you in on a secret, though — don’t tell Charles — I value trying harder. Not perfection, but curiosity and lifelong learning and growth. So only for now. In a year, I will expect y’all to have cleared out all the comma bats and confetti commas — to have moved on to other things, like semicolons or a misplaced passive voice or a convoluted subjunctive mood only a yoga guru of a writer could get you out of.