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March 08, 2008 |
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Feed Cats
FOUND by Steve Hain
in Winthrop, Massachusetts
I found this in a station wagon I bought. I think the previous owner has a young daughter. She seems quite organized.
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Monopoly games definitely last more than forty minutes...i would cut down the cat feeding time and spend it on winning that game!
this kid's going to be something boring when he grows up.
A 40 minute game of monopoly?? That's unheard of!
I wish this was my to-do list on an average workday. Even though I don't really like the beach, I really can't stand it when Sarah's hair is frizzy.
With all that Monopoly-playing and cat-feeding, who wouldn't need two showers a day?
Three meals a day for a cat? It must be HUGE!
I hope this girl didn't have a nervous breakdown when she realized she lost this list.
Does anyone need that much time to feed or play with their pussy?
Dear Flargy, my hair doesn't get frizzy.
It's straight.
I inherited genes for straight hair.
That's just how it is.
Martina, are you kidding? Look at the fun-filled day this kid has planned! I'm going to print this up and post it on my fridge for an action packed Saturday with the family!
And if anyone is still bored, I'll let them color in the colon dots!
incredibly weird. Reminds me of my college roomate in the 70's who needed to make lists to account for all her time
I like that spelling of Alason. This list makes my brain ache. It's a grim reminder of my busy weekend only hours away- but no Monopoly games for me.
Lance, I've got a pussy you could feed and play with. Meow.
"Go to Dad's"--ah yes, another divorced kid. I remember the day when that was actually unusual.
Surely you'll want the shower *after* the beach, not before? All that sand and saltwater...you can bet Mom's going to make her shower after.
Sad that such organisation is so hard to read. Maybe they could slot in a little penmanship practice. This is what happened when they got rid of the Palmer Method. Not to mention spelling..."Manply"? Is that the same game we're thinking of? Surely she could see the name on the box!
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Hey kid - if you can make my hair not frizzy in ten minutes or less, i'll give you $100.
She's going to dad's exactly so that mom won't make her shower after the beach.
I love that maybe she'll devote an hour to eating.
I think part of that hour on the computer should have been spent typing this list.
Cool that it was found in a car. All I found in my first car (which was used) was popcorn in the back seat.~:D
The checkboxes are pointless. Make the list. Cross off the items when complete. This list smacks of methamphetamine addiction, in my opinion.
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i used to make detailed lists like this when i was severely depressed. it was a relief to be able to cross off something inane that most people take for granted ~ like "brush teeth". hell, i still revert to this when i have to. luckily i don't get that depressed very often!
Seventeen comments, and none of them includes the word "creepy"? What's up with you folks today?
I enjoy how "eat" is in the maybe column. Even though the cats get to eat twice! :)
40 minutes of Manply is about all I can stand too. And maybe she's only playing against herself, so it's quicker. Somehow this strikes me as a lonely kid; so many of her activities seem solitary.
What's #9 that she's spending an hour and a half on, though? "Go down town"?
At least she has a 15 minute breakfast to sustain her during all her random activities. She's spending 40 minutes playing cards. And then playing monopoly. I think they could be parlayed into one activity. Or reading would be good, she could maybe learn to spell a bit.
Lance Pants, I do.
I like the big MAYBE at the end.
What if she calls Alason and Alason isn't there? What's she going to do for the next 8 minutes. Or what if Alason has a lot to say? That will totally cut into her play time with JP.
Baby Basil, when you were a little girl was your penmanship perfect and did you instantly know how to spell every single word in the English language with no errors at all? Me thinks you are a bit negative and judgemental for this site. Was there anything at all about this find that you FOUND enjoyable? No wait, I take that back. I couldn't care less what you think.
omg. i tooootally made lists like this when i was maybe eight. (so, erp, it was "creepy" for me to see this), but with different content—i'm a dog person and lived close to the mountains as opposed to a beach. anyway, i wasn't depressed, just extremely ambitious and optimistic. and now? many years later as a nearly legit grown-up? i pretty much hate making plans at all. still like dogs and mountains and attempts at ambition, though.
I think Baby Basil was kidding.
This girl is going to grow up to be like my control freak exwife.
I use to make lists like this when my mom told me that all the things I had decided to do that day outside my chores (like feeding the cat and untangling my sister's hair) were impossible. That way I could show her that it was possible. :)
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I am sure this girl is probably going to grow up to be a supremly good organizer thus do well in school and hold down a good job and when people tell her she can't do something she will show them!
I'm dying to know what happened at Dad's that prevented anything from getting done afterwards. Alason never got her phone call, JP was left hanging, the beach was abandoned. Who fed the cats at 5? Did Dad abduct her and take her away from her monotonous life?
I would also totally have made a list like that, which is what fascinates me about it, and creeps me out just a little bit... what I find strange, though, is that someone as organized would not have bothered to make a tidier list. The spelling doesn't bother me, rather how the straightness of timings is in complete contrast to the lines and letters. So I'm guessing that this was the first copy, before the writer got out the ruler, made a perfect looking list and threw this one out.
Foundlings: how about having the answer to 28x15 in huge, red letters at the top of the comment section? would make a lot of lives a little bit easier...
Color in your colon dots! Ewwww...
My bet is that this is an only child. Actually, this looks a lot like the way my childhood was spent. I had a fat-ass cat that got so big she wouldn't move. I brought her food throughout the day. She had this horrible strip of hair that ran down her back that was all tatty and ick-ified because she couldn't reach it to clean it. It bordered on frizzy. My parents forced me to play Monopoly, which I hated, so that I would learn math and "life skills."
"Gets bike" comes after "Go to Dads." Sounds about right. I could always count on Dad to buy me something out of guilt for leaving us. Her Dad is a stoner, though. She's only gonna be at the beach until 28 x 15.
Do you think this is C from yesterday and they are calling Alason (Aly) to torment her?
Manply starts at 5:08?!! Damn. I won't be able to get there till 5:11. PLEASE don't start without me.
I guess this is all contingent (given the maybe at the end) on whether Dad showed up to pick her up for her weekend visit. Or maybe it had to do with feeding the cat, it’s only mentioned three times so something must be riding on it. "If you don’t feed the cat you can go the beach." (and you can't have any pudding) Shouldn’t one take a shower after the beach? Cute find. She’s sounds a little anal retentive.
Found in a station wagon? I suspect this list was composed while riding to Dad's and that the things that where checked off had already happened. Bumping along in the back seat would account for the shakey grid lines. The list was forgotten in her excitement to reach Dad's place; later, the list worked its way into the crevass where Mr. Hain found it.
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8 minutes to feed a cat?
Also, why would you take a 2nd shower of the day right before heading to the beach?
I hope this is a "play" list b/c if this is how she lives out her real life it's a) not fun and b) wastes a lot of time doing unncessary tasks and back-tracking herself.
this seems completely developmentally appropriate to me..kids see grownups making tight schedules all the time..this girl is lucky that she isn't as over scheduled as so many kids are these days!
also, my to do lists have to have check off boxes on them too, it makes everything that much more doable
I suppose the list was composed in the morning, left in the car on the way to dad's, and upon returning to mom's the girl discovered the car had been sold(!). At this point the young girl probably became disillusioned with whatever influence led her to place her faith in this list and most likely resigned herself to living a lif subject to the whims of the Fates. Even just this morning she probably made a very simple "To Do" list with one column labelled "MAYBE," one item listed as "WHATEVER," and one checkbox labelled "DONE?"
I used to shower before heading to the beach. That way you know what you're going to look like when you're hair is all wet and you can make sure your waterproof makeup is really waterproof.... A little anal retentive, sure, but at least I was spending my time at the beach playing and not making crazy lists...
Maybe her dad is a party guy and her weekends with him are very unpredictable so she makes lists to have SOMETHING in order so she can survive it... Or it's her mom that's unpredictable and she makes the lists to make it through the week until she can go to dad's house to get away from mom...
Charming as it is...it also smacks of incipient obsessive-compulsive disorder. (It doesn't seem age-appropriate to the handwriting.) Course that would depend on whether this list was random or whether there was a list every day - - but if there were, I suspect they'd be in a notebook with ruler-drawn lines, and this wasn't.
Just an observation from knowing a couple OCD folks.
Looks like directions I got to boston off mapquest.
i thought at first that it said "fear cats"
which would have been funnier.
this find seriously concerns me. i don't want this kid to grow up to be an obsessive compulsive, neurotic teenager just like me.
An only child or an oldest child of divorced parents. She looks like a young lady who likes things to be stable and apparently they're not. Maybe the list is to help her regain a little control over her life while her parents do the insanity dance of seperation, divorce, and shared custody.
Divorce isn't always bad, but sometimes I wonder just how bad things have to be to warrant the total emotional upheaval that divorce inflicts on our kids...
Such a tough decision for parents!
Maybe the rest of the list didn't get checked off because her Dad actually showed up to take her to his place for "his" weekend. Maybe the unchecked activities were backup plans in case he didn't. I hope she had a good day. It's so sad to see a neighbourhood kid get all ready with her little holdall and wait down by the main door...and wait...and wait...the little face getting sadder...then Mum comes downstairs, puts her arm around her and says, "Let's go get an ice cream." The saddest part is the kid's smile that says, "I know you want to make me feel better, so I'll pretend that icecream is what I want."
o. womble -
My Dad just cancelled a trip to see me. I feel the exact same way. It doesn't ease up as you get older...
i don't think that this is a sign of OCD. i did that kind of things when i was eight or nine, too, just because it seems like a "grown-up" thing to do. it was play.
i think that by the time dad came to get her she was bored with the list and left it in the car. that IS the last thing checked off, after all...
maybe it's because i was eight only a decade ago, but i think this is kind of cute. i'm a camp counselor in the summers and my campers try to be grown-ups all the time. playing house isn't creepy... making to-do lists is?
Since when does feeding a cat take 8 minutes?
Scoop and dump, kid.
She must own a flatiron.
Wow. IMO this person is depressed and/or has an eating disorder. Poor kid.
wow. busy girl, eh?
Before I looked at it closely I thought this was a sketch for a seating plan for a very complicated dinner party or restaurant outing.
Or some very bizarre unfunny spidery New Yorker cartoon.
Perhaps it was a parent who was the OCD one, looking over her shoulder and telling her what to write. Or pehaps it's all a family joke.
I used to make lists in a diary for every day and check them off, aged 15-16-17 (homework, music practice, my 'own' stuff) as I was so disorganised or unfocused I'd never get anything done otherwise.
No change there, then.
This list is not ocd, kids like to pretend they have schedules and agendas like grown ups. If she added 'make list' to her list, then maybe you should start to worry.
Heinous Bitch in That Other State: you need to come up with a better name. Otherwise I'm going to thing I was married to you.
The poor cat must be 'busting' at the seams! Holy feedings, kid!
Also, at the bottom she writes,
1 hour play with C A T
1 hour T . V
20 mins ply with cats
Maybe she has multiple cats and a 'fave' cat that gets ALL the attention.
Whilst watching T.V., she could be playing and petting the cats, as well.
Alot of wasted time. She'll realize it as she ages.
Glad I don't have such a busy schedule. Happier that I don't have to write every little thing down, as if you would forget to eat, feed the cats, or shower.
SHEESH!!
**play with cats**
well this is no way to live your life!
I always wrote lists like this but I never gave myself time frames. I think society pushes us too hard as it is to try to do as much in your day as possible without getting a chance to sit back and relax.
I think this find is awesome. The kid loves her/his cats! Great.
Oh wow, so that's what's wrong with me. <wink>
I used to ALWAYS make schedules like this as a child. It made me feel grown up and like Jonathan it helped to organize my chaotic mind. Sometimes.
I still make to do lists a lot, but now its just a list of tasks and/or things.
What worries me about this list is the gaps in the schedule that leave minutes upon minutes of her day unaccounted for.
For example, "1. Feed Cats" ends at 7:38, but "2. Take Shower" doesn't start until 7:40. However, "7. Play w/ JP" ends at 1:40, the precise time that "8. Gets Bikes" begins.
Why do some tasks overlap and others don't? What is going on between 7:38 and 7:40?
And, what will she do if these tasks marked "maybe" don't work out? Does her schedule move up, or does she have to wait in a holding pattern until the start time of the next activity before she can do something else?
wow... i would give up the cats, they seem to be taking up way to much of this poor little girls life.
I know I'm not alone when I say that I hate it when people use circles instead of dots for colons, periods, and i's & j's.
I wonder if she can pencil me in during one of her breaks. Why does it take 15 minutes to go to Dad's but only 10 minutes to come back and make the phone call? What happens during those extra 5 minutes on the way to Dad's? Did Alason ever get her call?
I like how feeding cats takes precisely 8 minutes.
Also very clean. Two 20-minute showers!
MAYBE.. just maybe.. that time next to "go to dad's" is the entire drive there. Alason and JP are friends at dad's house, and there are cats at both mom AND dad's..
winthrop!!! that's close to me.
This is the most disorganized attempt at organization I've ever seen.