diff --git a/tools/whitespace.txt b/tools/whitespace.txt
index c4d4fe959e..4cb1b832e3 100644
--- a/tools/whitespace.txt
+++ b/tools/whitespace.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ A Smi balks into a war and says:
 The doubles heard this and started to unbox.
 The Smi looked at them when a crazy v8-autoroll account showed up...
 The autoroller bought a round of Himbeerbrause. Suddenly.......
-The bartender starts to shake the bottles...........................
+The bartender starts to shake the bottles............................
 I can't add trailing whitespaces, so I'm adding this line............
 I'm starting to think that just adding trailing whitespaces might not be bad.