1. 'Acrossed' is not a word. Don't use it. The woman who sits ACROSS from me said it today. Prepositions cannot have a past-tense. It makes just as little sense to say 'underneathed' or 'behinded'. And don't complain about language not being static. In an age of technology and standardizations, basic language operations have to be set and agreed upon - especially something that basic.

2. When I create a file for a customer the computer assigns a number to it. The format is always like this: 1-418259342. I was giving a customer their file number today and I said, "It's one, dash,..." and the customer misunderstood and asked, "One, bench?" Yes, one bench. Moron.