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April 07, 2008 |
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Before Someone Turns You In
FOUND by Devin Whelden
in Tigard, Oregon
I found this while walking to Safeway. It was about half a block from a bus stop, and it's ripped in half. I wish I knew if Christine actually got this. This is definitely the best note I've found yet. I didn't think people actually wrote bitter notes like this.
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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...
I hope she got it. For the author to be that bitter, Christine most have deserved it it. It had me laughing out loud until the bit about the kids.
Wow, I can taste the venom....
I have written notes like these, but with no intention to send them.
I'm willing to bet that she recieved the letter, considering it was ripped in half.
Another gold medallist in the Passive-Agressive Olympics! Although only the first part is "passive." She starts out all holier-than-thou, "I pity you" condescending, but then her immature nature takes over (after "work and go to school") and she begins to lash out with pure vitriol. The caps at the end are the clincher--if you have to "shout" even on paper, your point falls to pieces.
This young lady (and by the writing and content I would say she is *very* young, in both senses of the word)needs to read a bit more Jane Austen...and learn how to be polite while being cruel. It's much more effective than profanity, which is the cheap recourse of those with a paucity of vocabulary.
For the first four lines, I was sure this person was 13. She does say that she goes to school ... (as opposed to college)
I am a caseworker for welfare recipients (cash assistance aka OWF, food stamps, and medicaid. It was an eye opener to find out that people find any way they can to get on SSI. This is the way most people live without having to work: be on SSI or have child support, live in metro or hud housing, have food stamps, medicaid, and use HEAP for heating. There is no reason to work! Most of my clients have cell phones and bling! So this writer seems to be fed up with the system.
If the author's so certain that Christine is beating her children, and hasn't *already* turned her in, she's probably just as trailer-trashy as she claims Christine is.
Oh, sure she "owns a home" (probably a double-wide), has "a great husband" (probably only beats her once or twice per year, after release from rehab), "works" (You want fries with that?) and "goes to school" (still having trouble with the math section of that GED test), BUT STILL... she doesn't have to come down on poor Christine quite so hard.
I have long noted the strong desire of those closest to the bottom of the evolutionary ladder to find someone to whom they can feel superior.
Case in point, I think.
Oh, my my my my my ... living with an MR/DD ! This note sounded calm at first but boy did it progress and the frustrations came out. This is a very direct note to someone who perhaps ought to get her act together.
It is so serious, no wonder Christine left it at Safeway. This kind of note would shake anyone up I think.
Hey, Beck, we need to talk - I am a case manager for a private agency myself. An intensive case manager.
If people knew the conusmers as well as I get to know them, they would understand why theu can't work AND you would probably not WANT any of them to service you .Many of my clients work, however.
who CARES if Christine got the note, i just hope someone DOES turn her in if she's abusing her children!
Hi, this is Christine. Why don't YOU grow up and if YOU have something to say about ME, at least become woman enough to confront ME instead of writing these little high school-ish notes and leaving them where you think I will find them?
P.S. I'm not beating my kids.
Well, I knew people actually wrote these notes... I just thought that most of them were out of middle school. :-/
While I have issue with the method, I can't help agreeing with some of the sentiments.
What's an MRDD?
I really like articulate confrontational letters like this. I admire people who can write them because I'm the type of person who would act without writing . I'd just report her, then yell all this at her in public and cause a scene. Impulsively. This is more mature I think.
Baby Basil, don't slip off your high horse.
Well if this individual was so brazen to write a note of this calliber, why couldn't she just say all of this to Christine's face? I think the note writer is very self-conscious and maybe even jealous of Christine herself.
this note makes me sad, actually, that people like Christine exist (and I've even known a few of them).
Hossenfeffer, having a SOHF today, are we? Or is does your irony sensor need replacing?
(SOHF: Sense of Humour Failure)
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I believe this is the finder. Probably of friend of Jason's.
baby basil, I like the way you think. Makes me wonder what Christine said about her, to get her all riled up like that. She obviously still pretty young. Lessons to put on make up?
Pepper, if that's the finder he's pretty clever.
Sunshine, I think MRDD is Mr.DD. Just a guess.
Winston, you didn't even mention the child beating. What's that about?
Devin Whelden, lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner, Nicholas and their cat, Evey. She is twenty-three years old; Abottoir Blossoms is her first book.
A dark book of poems.
My the finder wrote this.
Pepp, I think our finder is a girl.
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aggghh.... the tails of her lower case Ys and Gs annoy me ever so much. why do they have to be so long? why does she write through them on her next line? horrible!
the writer's penmanship alone is the deciding factor in my joining Team Christine.
go go Christine! don't be ashamed of your MRDD (wtf?). besides, a lot of ppl need make-up lessons, whether they know it or not.
Ummm, yeah... Gotta love how the author is pissed at Christine for dogging her, so what does she do? Yeah, she does the exact same thing. Yep, thats going to work. I dont know what Christine did, but from this letter its pretty obvious the author is retarded.
looks like you all have this one handled.
Shelly:
Just because the note-writer put it in doesn't mean that it's true. More or less she's telling Christine that she's a bad parent. For all you know, Christine could just be spanking her kids.
according to google, MR/DD stands for "mentally retarded / developmentally disabled."
I'm pretty sure Rush Limbaugh wrote this letter.
The notewriter appears to be more concerned about Christine doing the trashtalking, than she is about her beating her kids. this note is so juvenile.
Oh, so high schoolish! These kinds of notes are so immature.
The author should be confronting Christine, herself.
Do unto others...
Mind you, I do agree with some of the sentiments, but not in the manner in which they're told.
OK all I can think about is an "alternative version" of this Find, written to a CAR named Christine...
Nuh uhh Mona, this isn't juvinile. That ho called me a ho, and her kids beat up my kids. I told CPS on her, they took her kids and now her welfare is getting cut, so shes gonna live on the streets. You guys are idiots for standing up for that ho, you hos.
At least she didn't hold it all in. There's worse things than being immature and juvenile, like being judgenmental and overly analytical. Purge on.
This bitch sounds like somebody I know. It's been my experience that usually when people need to state all the ways that they are "better" than you, they're really trying to convince themselves that they are as good as you, but they don't really believe that they are.
I don't understand how people can know about abuse going on (in reference to those kids) and not do anything about it.
It's almost as bad as being the abuser. Take a stand, people!
Christine... Sixteen...
These girls are obviously still in high school, maybe even junior high, so when she says " stop beating your kids.." I'm sure she's talking about those robot babies they give you in health class.
This note makes me feel scared for the future of humanity. (Not to be too dramatic today, or anything, but it is Monday, and I'm a little raw, is all.)
No, Christine is in junior high and the author means real kids... The author is a 50 year old in college who never grew up dogging on Christine who isnt even old enough to get married.
Seriously...are you going to believe that Christine beats her kids simply because someone has put it in a note? If that isn't enough...she puts it down as an after-thought.
She really could have shortened the note to read something like this:
Dear Christine,
Heard you were talking smack. Just thought I would remind you that 1. I am better than you and 2. that you are a lazy whore. If you have something to say, say it to my face (because obviously I have issues saying it to yours).
Sincererly,
(wait, I won't leave a name...because that would mean I would have to actually take credit for this note and since I'm too chicken to I won't)
P.S. Your a bad mom too and I hope to catch you in the act of beating your kids; otherwise, I just want to scare you.
Impostor, you is a ho, too.
I agree with Mona.
She seems to be more concerned about Christine doing the trashtalking than she does about her beating her children.
I mean..."P.S." is an after thought.
JER-RY! JER-RY! JER-RY! I bet Christine's a transexual too.
Ahh slander: ‘tis a timeless pursuit.
At least the note writer chose to use her PS. to draw attention to Christine’s abuse of her children. It could just have easily been a “Yo’ Momma.”
as a MRDD boyfriend and sugarDDaddy, i am deeply offended. i earn my ssi. you think it is easy to be damaged?
Hilary--that handwriting irks the crap out of me, too! Also, is this person "using" a mentally retarded (or developmentally disabled") man for his money? Is Lost the only one who has picked up on this? Seriously, what kind of money could this guy have and he shares it with Christine? At least the author is directing the letter towards her target instead of talking behind her back, like Christine apparently does...
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I was surprised to see "MR/DD" in this note as that is the population I work with as a behavioral clinician. On average, a person on SSI gets about $600 a month and, trust me, people do try to take advantage of them and their money.
In response to beck, in my experience, my clients who receive social services do not have "bling" or anything much extra than what is necessary to get by. I know people do abuse the system, but not everyone.
I thought it said, don't be so jealous of the fact that I own a name.
I thought that was kind of interesting: she's made a name for herself, and she owns it, baby.
But I guess it says "I own a home." not nearly as interesting.
love,
your mother
I agree, the handwriting is especially annoying!
MR/DD is a mentally retarded and/or developmently disabled person.
The whole wretched mess is a clusterfunk; the handwriting indicates that she is mired in the past.
I wouldn't expect her to grow up very soon.
Daaaaamn. If that didn't just open up th' ol' judgenmental floodgates...
Give the girl a break. She's addressing in print a bitch who talked shit about her.
The part that gets me is...
"quit living off those of us who work and pay taxes to support people like you"
so... I am very confused as to why the writer is upset for someone "living off those" (meaning workers)if she already believes they are working and paying taxes to support "people like you" (meaning on welfare)
does anyone else get what I'm saying?
Not really?
this looks like my mother's writing when she was younger... then I saw that it was found in my city, Tigard. There's no possible way it was my mom, but I hope Christine gets her act together. Tigard is a nice place and there are lots of people who would love to help her, and there are lots of free places to teach her how to do her makeup.
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I am not going to read much into this one. It's ok to have strong opinions and express them, right? And just because someone found this doesn't mean she ever gave it. It hurts to find out people are wrongly bashing you, so you retaliate. It's human. Maybe it turned out well.
Ahhhh, why was everyone talking about my book? Haha. :D