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July 22, 2009 |
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Don't Leave
FOUND by Eli
in Unknown
I am the landlord of an apartment building, and on one of my move-out days late this summer, I found this index card note stuck in the drawer of a desk someone was throwing away. Of course I was irritated by a tenant dumping their furniture in a place it wasn't allowed, but more curious to know which tenant was dating someone that was twenty years older than them.
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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...
This must be written to a dog. Dogs always come out older than their owners, even if they are gotten as puppies.
My dog is now 75. I think. That makes her more than 25 years older than me.
ut no matter how she begged or pleade
This is a reference to Dan Savage's "camp-site rule" for dating people much younger than you: the older person must remember to leave the younger in "better condition" than when the relationship began.
let him go.if he comes back, he's yours, if he doesn't then he never was. oh sheesh, that's pithy
If the landlord suspects the note was written by one of the tenants, and is sure there are no 25 year olds dating 5 year olds, and doesn't rent to 38+ year olds, then this note may never have reached its intended audience. Perhaps the writer wised up and realized that it was time to move on with life, take the lessons learned and use them with/on the next significant other.
Which one of yesterday's Finds is this one related to? The rambling, punctuation-free typed letter to Tony? Or Amelie's note written in the book to the mean little bugger?
But I'm gonna quote Flargy here instead:
"Holy Post-Secret, Batman!"
Meh, dating someone 20 years older isn't that much of an achievement. I was doing it at age 21, then spent the next few years only dating girls at least 10 years older. The only thing i learned was... that being older doesn't make you more mature, only more experienced.
Librarian: I vote Amelie. It would make sense, sort of.
The author of this note will think differently 20 yrs from now in the middle of an adult diaper change.
Too funny, Young.
Great bullshit excuse for getting out of a relationship..."I want to leave you better than I found you..." whatever
Usually, too, it is the professor asking his student to stay around, not the other way around. (I've heard.)
Richard was a divorced literature professor at the University of Unknown, and Shellie was one of his young students. They knew the rules of dating younger people as well as the next. Richard always felt guilty, and said he was taking advantage of her, but Shellie didn't think so. She thought they had more than just an affair. She put this note in between the pages of a book she borrowed from him, which was "How to Cook Husbands" by Elizabeth Strong Worthington.
@ ME: At least this is a little more original than "It's not you, it's me".
The age difference is definitely an excuse. My other half is 18 yrs older than me. We've been together for over 25 years and are still crazy about each other. Life is built day by day. You invent your happiness by making it up as you go along.
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken..."
(Thank you, Shakespeare.)
hearing your walker's subtle squeak coming up the stairs makes my heart skip a beat.
Totally irrelevant to this find: I actually drove through the famed San Anselmo the other day. Sweet town..much bigger than I imagined, considering all the finds that have come from that high school.
This is my youth summed up into one little note.
Isn't that a Boy Scout motto? Leave a place better than you found it? Right after "Be Prepared," which is a good reminder to tote condoms.
I read this as a young woman to an older man, though I suppose it could be the opposite. I think he's fed her this line that she bought and now he's slithering out of what she thought was her grasp.
Nut-Case Sally, Still stalking Tony from the janitors closet in the breakroom. You can't leave yet, Tony, b/c You haven't told me how you liked the present I got you. It was free. Poems wrote to you in my blood only costs my love!!!
It could have been a gay couple in which the the Greek army motto would apply -
"Never lead your buddy's behind"
It was love at first sight in the used furniture store when she found that desk the clerk estimated was about 20 years older than she was.