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May 05, 2009 |
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Love, Mila
FOUND by Brittany
in Utah
I found this tucked between the pages of a textbook in a thrift store. What's the reason for placing a towel on someone's pillow?
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Many reasons, Mila:
1) The iguana son the pillow.
2) Your eardrums start bleeding.
3) The boy next to you is drooling.
4) The pillow is hot water bottle and it's leaking.
5) You like waking up with marks on your face.
6) You drip taco sauce on it.
7) Jesus tells you to.
8) Your pillow is actually just a brick and you want to make it softer.
9) Oozing pus.
10) Daddy spills his whiskey again.
wtf?
1) The iguana pees on the pillow.
(deleteable comments, please!)
My ear drums used to bleed on my pillows when i was a kid. They had put tubes in my ears, and I was allergic to the plastic they used... it hurt really bad! I'm guessing that's what this is about... it was my first reaction...
Pillow of glass, head of bowling ball.
Quick, everyone ignore the cute sentiment of a seemingly considerate little kid, and instead jump on her misspellings and gripe about what idiots the American school system is cranking out!
Allso Mom,
Your were slepping on the dickshionerry, so I dident want to wake you.
Mila
11) Child has had dental surgery of some kind and is afraid the mouth will bleed onto the pillow in the night
12)Child has horrible cold and knows the nose will drip on the pillow during the night.
Child is pretty decent, actually, letting mom sleep, and showing major initiative in problem-solving. If I were Mom, I'd take child out to breakfast tomorrow.
She did not want to wake up her mom by using the hairdryer. That's why she put a towel on the pillow - to keep it dry. That's what I think.
I think its a throw up situation. She felt sick but didn't want to wake her mom so she put a towel on the pillow. Although when I was a kid, we put them on the floor next to the bed.....
ut up and leave me alone, you little fuc
Perhaps she had wet hair...
i would put a towel on my pillow if my hair was wet after i had taken a shower that night...maybe she woke up and relized that it was wet from her hair, and was a big girl and just got the towel herself...?
maybe they drool when they sleep.
I thought she couldn't find a pillowcase, and used a towel to maintain standards of hygiene while being considerate of mom.
I might have done that as a kid, but mostly from laziness.
Nosebleed!
Those darned cellophane pillows!
Also, it's just too darned bad that Mila had to learn (probably the hard way) at such an early age not to try to wake Mom out of a drunken stupor. Poor kid. It's a tough life. She'll be a better novelist for it, though.
@darkshines: My first thought was also a vomit situation.
Sick children invariably cough and throw up most often between 2:00 and 4:00 A.M., settling down to sleep about the time you need to wake up for an important appointment.
Head lice. This poor kid's head is loaded with some goop that mom thinks will kill 'em. Mila put a towel on her pillow as to prevent the goop from trashing her pillow.
That is what I think.
(I vote for NO deletable comments, but rather maybe a half hour window where they're editable.)
Thanks for the laughs, Flargy and Farmer.
Mom you were passed out... again ... I put a towel down to soak up my endless tears...
@Flargy: Point well made, although obviously not well taken (@Grab Bag ... although that's what I've come to expect from Chi-town (ouch!)).
@Sunshine: I think you nailed it. Which makes it even sweeter, implying that the kid has been yelled at in the past for going to bed with wet hair.
I like the kid much better than the sleeping mom.
I agree with darkshines....my mom used to put a towel on my pillow when I was littler and sick with a stomach virus and as I got older I learned if I was feeling sick to just go ahead and get a towel just in case.
Mila has Swine Flu. I mean H1N1, so as not to offend the swine. I mean the pigs.
I'm guessing Mila is under 10 years old, and if so she did a great job following the lines on the paper and writing a decent sentence. She's probably more responsible than her drunken, promiscuous mother. (There's got to be something sensational about this Find)
Well, I'm not sure about you people who throw up on towels. When I threw up as a kid, a bucket was more in order...
OMG too funny all the comments, especially farmers. And I agree with uncle up there. We were always given a bucket or a bowl for any throwing up that may occur if you couldn't get to the bathroom in time.
It's barf for sure. I had to do that for one of mine this morning at 4 a.m.!
I dunno. Even the best behaved kid will usually wake mom up for puke-on-the-pillow. I'm thinking a kid who has frequent nose bleeds might just throw a towel on it and go back to sleep.
Mila is a pillow-biter. The clench marks on the linen upsets her mother endlessly and Mila knows it. So this time around she decided to put a towel down.
Mila had managed to get a music player stuck in her hair, and whenever her head moved on the pillow, it would push the buttons and make the music play. She didn't want to wake her mom up, so she put a towel on the pillow to muffle the sound of the music.
She obviously had wet the bed. "I always wondered why it was up around his shoulders". Oh, and Mila also peed in your laundry basket.
I am laughing my head off.
I am so bummed that I missed all the fun today.
When I was a kid: wet hair=towel on pillow
AND
towel-on-pillow = gonna puke some more and can't make it to the bathroom
Now? Towel-on-pillow = #5 (thank, Kermit)
For the tears
You guys put a towel on your pillow when you are going to throw up?? That is so weird. Like, "protect the pillow!! Who gives a shit about the rest of the bed!"
i agree with sunshine. i put a towel on my pillow if i dont bother using the hair dryer. But it does make my hair go HFJDHSUFJ, and i cant tame it :(
i think that the mom fell asleep on a hard surface (floor) and Mila was trying to be nice and get their mom a pillow but could only find their own dirty one so they put a towel over it so that their mom wouldn't have to use a dirty pillow =)
Nose blood or tears?
She threw up
Maybe they were in the middle of doing her hair and mom took a break and fell fast asleep. Hair grease and wax can get all the heck over a pillow if it's not properly contained...
My best guess is the writer was sick and began to vomit, so they covered their bed from puke.
I think she needed a pillowcase and couldn't find one. There's something weird about a pillow without a proper case. I'd much rather put a towel on there than go without. And, when you are a kid, you get used to things a certain way. IMO, that's what this is.
The iguana son pillow is the most intriguing sentence ever.