Quote Originally Posted by Barb_D View Post
I'm not sure I agree with this. Those two sentences are completely unrelated. I wouldn't like them together with a semi colon and they don't make sense to join with an "and."

As you have them, joined with a comma, it's called a comma splice, and this is an error. If you have two sentences that can stand along, you can't smash them together with a comma in between.
Sorry for misinforming you.

Next time I will number different examples.