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If there's one thing I really can't stand to see when I'm driving through town is a sign that is either spelled wrong or has an apostrophe where it doesn't belong.  I don't know why, but a misplaced apostrophe drives me mad enough to not patronize someone's business if I see their sign soon enough.  Take "Hot Wing's Cafe" for instance.  Is it possible that the owner is a very attractive Asian person named Wing?  Maybe.  Is it also possible that, being so beautiful, he or she has been nicknamed "Hot Wing"? Not likely, but possible.  If this is, in fact, the case then I humbly apologize to Wing.  Otherwise, change the sign! Those wings don't own anything, neither do those boiled peanuts for that matter.

For most of you reading this, all 3 of you, this isn't such a big deal.  But it drives me absolutely crazy to see such a failed grasp of one of the easiest punctuation rules in the English language.  Does it own something? Yes. Apostrophe.  Is it a contraction? Yes. Apostrophe.  That pretty much boils it down right there. Or, if you will, that pretty much boil's it down right they're.